We had paid out quite a large sum of money for tools and grubstake and were forced to endure untold, almost unbelievable hardships.
You tell the boys you are not going, and that Uncle Ike will not grubstake you.
Leaving Rhyolite, Shorty had induced Judge Decker, a convivial resident of Ballarat to furnish a grubstake to look over Black Mountain.
In 1898, after working for a grubstake he started on the trip that led at last to Death Valley, by way of the San Juan country--one of the world's roughest regions.
But for years it was good bait for a grubstake and served both the convincing liar and the honest prospector.
They was always more'n one wantin' to grubstake him but he'd never take it.
Me, I got fo'-five chances to grubstake in that time, but I'm broke.
Here is where I get back the money I put up to grubstake Casey.
Twenty-odd years ago I was offered the section that town now stands on, for a team and a two weeks' grubstake for a man and his wife.
I'll tell them to grubstake you here," Casey reassured him.
But you won't have no chance to grubstake Burton, Clancy.
He'll have to get money for another grubstake before he goes any more prospecting.
I suppose he used the fifty dollars Chip paid him to grubstake himself, and that he's now, in the deserts looking for a mine?
So Murphy fell to calculating how much of the money he had earned might justly be spent upon a few days' spree without endangering the grubstake he planned to take into the farther mountains in the spring.
He must get all his grubstake in too, and after snowfall he would have to be mighty careful about making tracks around any place.
Bill was a good old scout, all right, but if he would grubstake Casey to go hunting the Injun Jim mine, then Bill had changed considerably.
Well, there was two ol' soaks that got around him to grubstake 'em.
A man who could not buy his own grubstake to-day might "own the earth" to-morrow.
