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Updated: May 11, 2025
Denver grunted non-committally and led Murray into the tunnel, which had turned now to follow the ore. Whatever his game was it was too deep for Denver, so he looked on in watchful silence. Murray seemed well acquainted with mining he looked at the foot-wall and hanging-wall and traced out the course of both veins; and then, without offering to take any samples, he turned and went out to the dump.
Hereabouts we saw nothing save 'hungry quartz. Then we struck across three several ridges, whose slopes were notably easier on the eastern, and more abrupt on the western side. The people had sunk several pits in places likely to yield 'kindly quartz, and they had made no mistakes as to the overlay of the lode, its foot-wall or its hanging-wall.
The bottom crust is the foot-wall, the top is the hanging-wall, and the jelly in the middle is the pay streak." "Danged good!" pronounced the hobo licking the tips of his fingers and Old Bunk tapped him on the knee. "Say," he said, "seeing the way you whipped that jasper puts me in mind of a feller back in Texas.
From above them the water dripped from the seep-soaked hanging-wall, which showed rough and splotchy in the gleam of the carbides and seemed to absorb the light until they could see only a few feet before them as they clambered over water-soaked timbers, disjointed rails of the little tram track which once had existed there, and floundered in and out of the greasy pockets of mud which the floating ties of the track had left behind.
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