I prospected around there for six months, owe more than I shall ever be able to pay for grub-staking, and finally, when the cold weather came, I slipped out.
You can't lose me in these mountains; I have prospected all over them, and I have seen where the haunted mine is located a hundred times.
One had prospected east of the Runaway, and the other west.
The actual ground prospected and ascertained to be highly auriferous extends to three hundred and fifty miles from the mouth of Fraser River.
At every bar and shallow spot prospected in these wild localities gold was obtained in paying quantities, all of very fine quality--rather difficult to save without the use of quicksilver.
He prospected for orders, prospected for better prices, prospected for new markets.
He had prospected at the back of the cemetery, found a few 'colours', and the bottom sloping downwards towards the point under the cemetery towards which all indications were now leading him.
He had prospected on the opposite side of the cemetery, found no gold, and the bottom sloping upwards towards the graveyard.
We prospected all around there, but could not strike any pay dirt.
We prospected for a few days, but could find no gold, although there were a good many good, paying claims belonging to other men.
I prospected around there an' had pretty good luck.
We prospected here three days, then broke camp for the valley proper, where we camped near a Catholic church.
Cash had prospected and trapped for more than fifteen years now, and he preached the doctrine of freedom and the great outdoors.
They prospected every gulch that showed any mineral signs at all.
Really, it's a great blow to me to hear of that prospected sojourn.
As the fragment prospected weighed rather less than an ounce, this would give about $500 to the ton.
The ore is in beds and pockets, and enough has been prospected to assure a supply for some years to come, unless the demand should grow very decidedly, in which case a scarcity might soon be felt.
In any case, much of the northern part of this continent can only be prospected by following the streams, on account of the dense growth of forest with which the soil is covered.
Came down the Never-Know-What and prospected a whole summer at Forty Mile.
This river flows through a wide and somewhat arid valley, and was roughly prospected about 1887 by men who reported finding fine gold all along its course, and also in tributaries of the lake.
He advises that number eleven should be prospected and tested.
Neither of us were miners, although we had prospected some without results.
Billy and I had been on the bum together a long while and had prospected for gold and other things in Utah, Nevada and California.
There wasn't a stampede in a hundred miles where her bloomers wasn't leading, for she had the endurance of a moose; and between excitements she prospected for trouble in the manner of relocations.
They chartered a schooner and prospected along Asy Miner, wherever that is.
I prospected the Pelly bed, I prospected the White; The Nordenscold for love of gold I piked from morn till night; Afar and near for many a year I led the wild stampede, Until I guessed that all my quest was vanity and greed.
Mulcahy had prospected far and wide among the Rocky Mountains, and had even crossed the Yukon River on one of his trips.
Before very long a few diggers came and prospected in the vicinity of the saddle for surface gold.
Robertson, got one hundred and five ounces on the Palmer River, which they prospected for twenty miles.
The scene of their operations was a little above Palmerville, and they prospected thence to Maytown.
So much snow on the mountains that we prospected the foot-hills and found what we thought were indications of mineral.
I've prospected in every range of mountains there is in three Territories to find that Last Lap Lode.
Its singing had meant that, sometime in the early sixties, Beorn had taken part in the gold-rush to the Comstock, and had worked and prospected in the Nevada mines.
Then you roused us and, when we had prospected and found that gold was really there, we each staked a claim, and you an extra one as discoverer, and set off that same night on the run to register.
Myra invited him to share their supper and during the meal the stranger told them he was a chemist and that he had prospected over most of the West.
This, I believe, is a lost mine that really exists and though the location has been prospected from the days of Dr.
Because the country had been prospected and pronounced worthless, men of millions were not backing a banjo-picking rancher and a young lawyer with no money and few clients.
These rocks have not been properly prospected yet, and there have been no claims taken up on them.
A Dinosaur skeleton, prospected and ready for encasing in plaster bandages and removal in blocks.
As soon as a mile or more had been prospected or a new specimen secured, the boat was dropped down to a new convenient anchorage.
The fossil layer is carefully prospected with small tools, chisels, awls and whisk brooms exposing the bones as they lie in the rocks.
Near Wagner's ranch the cañon was prospected and so many bones found that it appeared most desirable to do extended searching along the river.
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