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This nugget was purchased by Bobadilla to send to Spain, and went down with the 1502 treasure fleet. The gold deposits found by the Spaniards were the surface accumulations of centuries. When these were exhausted and the supply of cheap labor fell off owing to the dying out of the Indians, the mineral production waned. In 1502 labor difficulties caused a temporary cessation in mining.
He took it as the harbinger of countless agates, and resolved to set up a lapidary, with a tent, or even a shop, perhaps not to pay, but to be advertised, and catch distinguished visitors. "Erema, you are a mighty finder; you found the biggest nugget yet discovered. You know about stones from the Rocky Mountains, or at least the Sierra Nevada.
He would, of course, have made it his business to get early information of Mr Ford's movements. It would be easy for him to discover that the millionaire had been called away to the north and that the Nugget was still an inmate of Sanstead House. And here he was preparing for the grand attack. I had been premature in removing Buck's name from the list of active combatants. Broken legs mend.
The cheechalkos' cabins are flooded to the caves. Stout fellows in hip-boots take a boat and rescue the scurvy-stricken from the roof. And still the barrier held. People began to go about their usual avocations. The empty Gold Nugget filled again. Men sat, as they had done all the winter, drinking, and reading the news of eight months before, out of soiled and tattered papers.
She took him into the kitchen and they must have had a great palaver, for he didn't leave until after dark. Inside the week he came back, but I missed him. When I got home, Paloma put a fat nugget of gold into my hand, which Vahna had sent him for. The blamed thing weighed all of two pounds and was worth more than five hundred dollars.
Grudgingly he admitted to himself that, away from the unsavory atmosphere of the Gold Nugget, there was nothing in Maudie positively offensive. At this moment, with her shrewd little face peering pertly out from her parki-hood, she looked more than ever like an audacious child, or like some strange, new little Arctic animal with a whimsical human air.
Robinson went on his knees without a word. "It is all right," said he, in a great flutter, "it is a nugget and a good-sized one a pound weight, I think. Now then, my lad, out you come;" and he dug his fingers under it to jerk it out. But the next moment he gave a screech and looked up amazed. "Why, this is the point of the nugget; it lies the other way, not flat. George! I can't move it! The pick!
This M. Villiers is going to rob his wife, and his plan will no doubt be this: he will lie in wait for her, and when she drives slowly down the hill, he will spring on to the trap and perhaps attempt to kill her; at all events, he will seize the box containing the nugget, and try to make off with it.
Nugget Creek, Flour Gold, Bear Gulch these spoke of the strong, red-shirted Argonauts of the El Dorado. Among these scarred but peaceful foothills had been played and applauded the great, wonderful, sordid, inspired drama of the early days, the traces of which had almost vanished from the land. Occasionally also the buckboard paused for water at a more pretentious place set in a natural opening.
"What's that?" cried Fred, starting from his recumbent position, and beginning to take an interest in the conversation. "It's a lump as big as my head I've found," roared Mike, making another dive for the whiskey barrel, but we choked him off, and made him stick to his text. "Do you mean that you have found a nugget of gold as large as your head?" demanded Fred, eagerly.
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