Sand-dunes became building-lots of high value and a new bonanza era was come to San Francisco.
Well, the bonanza came right enough--just in time for S.
Ah, if I could only hammer that into the brains of every rancher of the San Joaquin, yes, and of every owner of every bonanza farm in Dakota and Minnesota.
All along he had been relying upon a "bonanza crop" to reimburse him.
He had been gambling--you know the Governor--on anotherbonanza crop this year to recoup him.
It was while I was there, as it happened, that the great "bonanza nugget" was discovered.
Bonanza farms unfolded their ample acres of wheat, thousands of cattle roamed unchecked in the gullies and over the plains of the western counties.
Bonanza farms, demonstrating the profit in large scale wheat raising, were largely responsible for the enormous increase in acreage and the equally large gain in population through immigration.
Two new inventions added to the success of the wheat-raising bonanza farms.
It was because of the railroads that bonanza farming, an important phase of North Dakota history, was introduced.
Here in the last quarter of the nineteenth century flourished the bonanza farms--those huge land tracts entirely devoted to the growing of wheat that earned for this valley the title of "the bread basket of the world.
A history of progress in the West, with an especially good chapter on bonanza farms.
The chief purpose of the early bonanza farms was to demonstrate on a spectacular scale the potential wealth of the Red River Valley.
Eastern syndicates usually owned the bonanza farms, and resident managers were engaged to supervise the work.
Bonanza farming brought greater need for transportation of grain and merchandise and by 1879 river traffic was at its height.
Illustration] IT WOULD be useless to encumber my story with a lengthy and detailed narrative of Swiftwater Bill’s experiences in the first mad rush of gold-seekers up the narrow and devious channels of Bonanza and Eldorado Creeks.
He had valuable interests in the gold mining district near Teller, Alaska, and in his fond imagination there was every reason to believe that the Kougarok country was as rich, if not richer, than Eldorado and Bonanza in the Klondike.
Swiftwater reasoned that all of Alaska is underlaid with gold; that the fabulous riches of Eldorado and Bonanza would be duplicated again and again on Seward peninsula.
A few years ago we witnessed the rise and rapid growth of the great bonanza farms in this country.
Such men as Oliver Dalrymple, of North Dakota, led the way by demonstrating what might be done by "bonanza farms.
Merriwell, "and you're trying to swindle the professor out of a bonanza mining claim.
They had adventures in helping the professor get his location notice on file, and only Merry's fleetness of foot and good judgment saved a prospective bonanza mine for Borrodaile.
It may be, after this bonanza is safely in our hands, that we may be able to discover some ultimate wizardry of finance which shall deal with Zurich's case.
And when we get this little old bonanza of ours to grinding she won't be in New York any more.
Of course this bonanza king driving up from the mine was her real father, and she a bonanza princess, happier, more fortunate than a merely political one; for princesses have to live in Europe, where Madigans cannot see and envy them.
That the daughter of a bonanza king should have fancied for a moment that Indian Jim could be her father!
It was a bonanza which the impecunious colonels hoped to gain.
In August of this year a rich discovery of coarse gravel was made by one George Carmack on Bonanza Creek, a tributary to the Klondike.
The bonanza farms of the West are other samples of great areas of the most productive land in the United States being used most unscientifically.
Accordingly, we find that the bonanza farm plan, where great areas of wheat are worked by machines with labor employed only in the seed time and harvest, is rapidly breaking up.
I had told dad about my telling the boys he was a bonanza copper miner, and he never batted an eye when they asked him about his mine, and he looked the part.
Dad has to wear a dress suit to dinner here and cough up money every time he turns around, 'cause I have told the bell boys dad is a bonanza copper king, and they are not doing a thing to dad.
You won't find better security in this country than a share of stock of the Little Wonder Bonanza Mining & Milling Company of Montana.
The Little Wonder Bonanza Mining & Milling Company of Arizona headed the list of the worthless concerns.
Bonanza went off with a sound like an atom bomb in a telephone booth, and the slug whiffed between her arm and her body and drilled a crater in the plaster behind her.
He had been told since his arrival that everything had been in a rut since the great Bonanza plague; but assuredly this archaic repose must be its natural atmosphere; its fevers must always be sporadic and artificial.
Not another signal of man was to be seen, nothing but the excrescence on the big wedding-cake house of a Bonanza king.
All of the gold-bearing creeks rise not far from the Dome and radiate in various directions toward the Klondike and Indian rivers, the most productive being Bonanza with its tributary Eldorado, Hunker, Dominion and Gold Run.
The Comstock Lode at Virginia City, Nevada, on the east slope of the Sierra Nevadas, was one of the most famous bonanza deposits of gold and silver in the world.
Lake Superior country, and bonanza deposits containing 20 to 60 per cent have been found and worked in some places, notably in Alaska and Wyoming.
Virginia mine had not opened up into a bonanza ore-body at a depth of 1,400 feet, the frenzy of speculation in Comstock shares might have gone down in history as another South Sea bubble.
This fact stands out: Although Goldfield Consolidated owned at the outset a bonanza gold mine, stockholders had just two chances.
They had found the silver, but the Bonanza was not for them.
Typical summer scene on the junction of the Eldorado and Bonanza Creeks; "color" showing in both pans.
How far this great Bonanza would extend, none could predict, but its expansion seemed to keep pace with the most sanguine imaginings.
The politicians did not realize what a bonanza he was making of it all for himself, because they were as yet unaware of the subtlety of his mind.
Mollenhauer, one of the men who had gathered up a large amount of the old city warrants, and who now wanted his money, in order to invest it in bonanza offers in the West, called on Stener, and also on the mayor.
That eight hundred dollars, if wisely expended, might open up a bonanza in Pinal; and in any case, if it was spent with him, it would help to pay the freight.
You know the Lost Burro--there she lays, right there--and they took out four million dollars in silver before the bonanza pinched out.
