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"And, of course, if they have any extra time, the Kansas men have been in the business long enough to know how to do that. They might save me a lot of work when I get up there, if they're on the job," concluded Colonel Howell. "A good deal like grub-staking a man, isn't it?" asked Mr. Zept. "Not much," retorted the oil man with decision. "They're all on my pay roll and they're all working for me.
"The diggings," replied Stark, as Lee addressed the stranger. "Mining now?" "No, same old thing, but I'm grub-staking a few men, as usual. One of them stays here. I may open a house in Dawson if the camp is as good as they say it is." "This here's a good place for you." Stark laughed noiselessly and without mirth. "Fine! There must be a hundred people living here."
That, reader, is the true story of the discovery of the Copper Queen, the mine that has made a dozen fortunes and two cities Bisbee and Douglas. If I had gone in with Stevens in grub-staking poor Warren would I, too, I wonder, have sold my share for some foolish trifle or recklessly gambled it away? I wonder!... Probably, I should.
The creeks that drain that side the Klondike watershed are just as likely to have gold as the creeks that drain this side." And he backed this opinion to the extent of grub-staking half a dozen parties of prospectors across the big divide into the Indian River region. Other men, themselves failing to stake on lucky creeks, he put to work on his Bonanza claims.
You and I understand human nature pretty well. We won't breathe a word to any one. You tell Mrs. Keeler you're attending to important business for me, that I'm grub-staking you, and that there's something in it for you and the family. If the neighbors get wind of it, they'll think, perhaps, you are attending to money matters for me. They seem to be mighty curious about my money."
Then them that find anything have to give half to the fellow that did the grub-staking. And he looks into the claim, and if there's anything in it, why, he buys the fool out. In mines, like everywhere else, ma'am, it ain't work, it's brains that makes the money. No miner ever made a mining fortune not one. It's the brainy, foxy fellows that stay back in the camps.
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