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Let's see now, it's no good letting my angry passions run away with me, and jumping on this chap as I'd like to do. I must reason this out. The other prospector sleeps in the same tent sometimes disagrees with this chap as to the best place to test. In that case yes! they've always tried and found in both places. And they sleep in the same tent. They're both in it.
Indeed, there is comparatively little incentive now for a prospector to set out in Arizona, because if he chances to stumble on a really rich prospect, and attempts to work it himself, he is likely to be so browbeaten that he is finally forced to sell out to some large concern. There are only a few smelters in or near the State and these are controlled by large mining companies.
He thinks he's careful about them hosses, but he ain't." "Look a-here, Laddy; you cain't believe all you hear," replied Jim, seriously. "I reckon we mightn't have any trouble." "Back up, Jim. Shore you're standin' on your bridle. I ain't goin' much on reports. Remember that American we met in Casita, the prospector who'd just gotten out of Sonora? He had some story, he had.
He could follow his leads of crumbling brown rock with that marvellous intuitive knowledge which is so important an element in the equipment of your true prospector. But it is only an element. By all the rules of the game Peter should have failed long since, should have "cashed in and quit" some five years back; and still he grubbed away cheerfully at divers mountains and many ranges.
Heavy travel continued over the bridge all afternoon a prairie schooner with three oxen, two mules and a bronco pulling it; a prospector in his red flannel undershirt, driving a laden donkey; a hurdy-gurdy troupe on its way to the barbecue; a stage-coach drawn by six half-broken wild horses; an old Spanish settler on a beautiful, black thoroughbred; a late arrival from Oregon, mounted upon a sturdy mule with his young wife upon a pillion behind him, and a whole drove of China-men being taken out to work a white man's claim up on the Divide.
"You don't look like an ordinary prospector who'd you say it was you were working for?" Denver turned and looked at him, and grunted contemptuously. "J. P. Morgan," he said and after a silence Murray answered with a thin-lipped smile. "That's all right, that's all right," he said with a cackle. "No hard feeling I just wanted to know.
The prospector admitted he felt "the need of a little exercise" and, having studied the mountain with field-glasses and consulted with the hotel proprietor, he consented to see them through.
It was faint and far away and I decided it was a wildcat. Do you suppose it was her?" DeWitt ground his teeth together and his hands shook but he made no sound. Jack breathed heavily. "You think it was a woman?" asked Billy hoarsely. The prospector spoke hesitatingly. "If I'd been shore, I'd a gone on a hunt. But it was all kind of in my sleep. It was from way back in the mountain there."
Cursing softly and telling the burros that it was a shame they had to go farther on account of a fool, the prospector followed, and the little procession resumed its straggling march. They passed the huge bunk-house, a mess-house, an assay office, what seemed to be the superintendent's quarters, and a dozen smaller structures, all of logs, and began an abrupt descent.
The farmers they allowed that'd swamp 'em worse'n they was already swamped ez it would so they up and quit. Blackwell, he's a cuss, with a snoot like a hawg. He don't want no neighbors." I had been observing the old man's face as he talked. It was villainous only in its featurings. "Which are you; a prospector or a miner?" I asked. "A little b'ilin' o' both, I reckon," was his rejoinder.
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