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"A placer?" "Yes, placer mine gold washed down in the creek bed. But it's a small thing compared with another discovery I've made. Up there " Blake pointed up the steep ledges that he had climbed "I found a bonanza." "Bonanza? What is that, pray?" "A mint, a John D. bank account, a Guess?" "A gold mine! Oh, Tom, how romantic!" "Yes; it's free-milling quartz.
Some day the inexhaustible placer would be found; or, on a mountainside where the porphyry was stained, he would carelessly chip off a fragment of rock, turn it up to the sun, and behold it rich in ruby silver; or, some day, the vein instead of pinching out would widen; there would be pay ore almost from the grass-roots rich, yellow, free-milling gold, so that he could put up a little arastra, beat out enough in a week to buy a small stamp-mill, and then, in six months ten years more of this fruitless but nourishing certainty were his, ten years of the awful solitudes, shared sometimes by his hardy and equally confident wife, and, at the last, by his boy, who had become old enough to endure with his father the snow and ice of the mountain tops and the withering heat of the alkali wastes.
"Wash that," he said. "You're apt to get a prospect." With artful passes Dextry settled it in the pan bottom and washed away the gravel, leaving a yellow, glittering pile which raised a yell from the men who had lingered curiously. "He pans forty dollars to the boot-leg," one shouted. "How much do you run to the foot, Slapjack?" "He's a reg'lar free-milling ledge." "No, he ain't he's too thin.
I put it right into Pony Gulch and my pick struck free-milling ore the first blow! Some of the stuff runs ninety dollars to the ton and some higher. I've already had good offers for my claim from an English syndicate, but I haven't decided to sell. Seems queer it should be such a little while ago that I called you out of that pavilion, Miss Jane, and told you what a fix I was in!
There were quartz crystals gleaming with lumps of free-milling gold, curling masses of silver and copper wire direct from the mines, gold nuggets of unusual size and brilliancy, and specimens of ores from the principal mines not only of that vicinity, but of the West. Observing Darrell's interest in the contents of the case, Mr.
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