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Updated: June 23, 2025
There's nothin' in it. Take my word." "But Fallan's got a good stamp-mill all ready for business, and the ledge " "Son," said California John, "every once in a while the Lord gets to experimentin' makin' brains for a new species of jackass, and when he runs out of donkeys to put 'em in " "Meaning me?" demanded Gaynes, his fair skin turning a deep red. "Not at all. Meanin' Barney Fallan."
A horse is hitched to one of the bars, which is purposely left longer than the others. The ore is thrown into the arastra, and water is admitted, a little at a time. As the horse is driven around the stones are dragged over the circular depression, crushing the ore and setting free the gold. This way of separating the gold was too slow, and in a short time the stamp-mill was invented.
How far is it from your mine dump to the nearest bank?" "About five miles," he answered. "In that case," said I, "it seems to me you don't need to sell a hundred thousand dollars' worth of stock to build a stamp-mill. You need only enough to buy yourself a good, strong wheelbarrow.
"Say, John, that's the hardest-riding old pelter I ever see, about three inches of slack between engine and tank, pounding like a stamp-mill and " looking over his shoulder and then at me, "John, I could a swore there was some one standing right there, I felt 'em. "It seems to me they ort to keep up their engines here in pretty good shape.
Their dreaming tops were in the sky; their feet were in the sluicings of the stamp-mill that reared its long brown back in a semi-recumbent posture, resting one elbow on the hill; and beneath the valley smouldered, a pale mirage by day, by night a vision of color transcendent and rich as the gates of the Eternal City.
With him we returned to the deafening stamp-mill and brought up in the "zinc room," where the metal is cast into bricks.
In two or three months you can thus build your own stamp-mill and pay for it with ore, and still have your mine all in your own hands." He could not see it that way, and, pursuing his own method, he took $72,000 in two weeks out of the city of Chicago, from some of the best business men of that city. Now, perhaps he had a real mine.
On this particular evening he sat over his pipe rather longer than usual, seduced by the beauty of the scene and the moment. It was very quiet. The prolonged rumble of the mine's stamp-mill came to his ears in a ceaseless diapason, but the sound was so much a matter of course that Lockwood no longer heard it.
Even in the days when the stage line operated between San Pasqual and Keeler, Garlock had run its race and the Argonauts had moved on, leaving the rusty wreck of an old stamp-mill, the decayed fragments of half a dozen pine shanties and a few adobe casas with the sod roofs fallen in.
Their friends used to wander down for the regular clean-up, just to rejoice over the youngsters' deserved good luck. The little five stamp-mill crunched away steadily; the water flowed; and in the riffles the heavy gold dust accumulated. "Why don't you-all put up a big mill, throw in a crew of men, and get busy?" they were asked.
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