She learned from her brother that he had employed more men to sink further prospecting pits along the course of the lode, but with what results she was unable to discover.
She was as much excited over the prospecting expedition as he was.
Ruth did not reply for a long time, then she said, "I am glad Brewer is to begin prospecting for you.
The first is to fill in the prospecting pits and let the lode lie undeveloped.
If you leave it to me, I propose that we go down to the Frazer, following the Chilcotin to its mouth, and prospecting the sources of all these little streams as we go.
Now that we have saved a few dollars why should we not goprospecting and make our pile like other people?
To Jim mining or prospecting was what big game hunting is to richer men.
Steve hated the daily labour for daily wage, and Phon was hardly strong enough for the work, and anxious to go off prospecting on his own account.
It is a pity that the gentlemen who sell camp outfits cannot be compelled to pass one year in prospecting before they enter upon their trade.
Prospecting was left to the capable hands of Old Mizzou until, much to Bennington's surprise, that individual resigned his position.
That blackguard Levert was positively the first man who ever really tried to injure me, and he took me by surprise when we were out on a prospecting trip--he had been importuning me to give him my daughter in `marriage'!
Fact is, I was prospecting around Lonesome Park and found a gold mine.
He tells Rutherford that he has been prospecting and has found gold in Lonesome Park.
The first gold washing was done on the bars of the rivers, where the gravel was shallow, usually not more than two or three feet deep, and where prospecting was easy, and mining was prompt in its returns and liberal in its rewards.
Yet it was this passion for prospecting that resulted in the discovery of gold in an incredibly short time from the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley to the northern limit of the State.
Are easily made, and are very handy for carrying small supplies of drinking-water when prospecting in a dry country; they having the advantage of keeping the water cool in the hottest weather, by reason of the evaporation.
By the holder of a prospecting licence, within 30 days after discovery of an auriferous quartz vein in a prospecting area, area not to exceed 20 acres.
I have found this simple lesson in practical prospectingof use since.
Prospecting for alluvial gold at shallow depths is a comparatively easy process, requiring no great amount of technical knowledge.
This drill is applicable to sinking a borehole for prospecting for minerals or water, shafts, &c.
If anyone would grubstake me, I'd break loose with Cap here and go prospecting for adventures into some of the unnamed ranges.
I had some dandy prospecting plans after that, but there was no jingling in my pockets--no outfit money, so I hailed Singleton as an angel monoplaned down with the ducats.
Kit was careful to state that he has been prospecting in the mountains and out of touch with ranch people, and it must be understood that all Isidro could tell would be news to a miner from the desert mountains.
Yet as he watched the younger man disappear over the gray-green range he smiled tolerantly for, after all, that sort of a hustler was the right sort of partner for a prospecting trip.
Baby Buntin' been prospecting while we wallowed in the dope bath," said Kit.
Science and experience do not appear to give much assistance in prospecting for quartz lodes.
In prospecting for auriferous quartz, use is sometimes made of the divining rod, a practice not without credit with some good miners.
The prospecting shaft is sometimes sunk into hills supposed to be auriferous, where the shaft is far less expensive than the tunnel.
Frequently two men go prospecting together so that their work will be less dangerous and lonely.
In the desert prospecting is more difficult and often dangerous, because of the scarcity of water.
However," he added, "we must certainly try to catch these black diamonds, and we can keep on prospecting at the same time.
The land lay in great ridges and valleys, and he soon found that prospecting was almost as rough work as fighting the river.
They carried a tent and mosquito-bar, and a light spade and pick for prospecting the blue clay, besides Horace's own regular outfit for mineralogical testing work.
Although signs of game were abundant, they did not like to lose time in hunting until they reached the prospecting grounds; but a couple of days later meat came to them.
In situations such as this, where black guillemots are prospecting for open water, they may use the "water sky" and steam fog associated with leads as visual aids.
Even so, legislation exists that offers the possibility of protection even from this threat, and has already been used to exempt some important mainland areas from prospecting and the granting of mining rights.
Take me out prospecting with you," said the boy at a venture.
To go prospecting with the Reefer was an honour sought by many.
This man's life had literally been spent on the prospecting trail.
Prospecting for valuable metals by electricity has been recently introduced in Wales with remarkable success.
The Professor and George wandered up the banks of the little stream on a prospecting tour, as had been their constant practice.
It is likely that the indications of lead and silver all along this ridge attracted the attention of a mining engineer, and this was a test hole in prospecting for the ore.
For more than a week the boys and the Professor put in their time prospecting in the hills and in carting various ores and mineralogical samples to their workshop.
The men scattered over the country, prospecting for gold and pegging out their claims and farms.
Prospecting engine for swamp use," answered the driver.
Should any of my readers decide to take a prospecting trip to this newly discovered northern El Dorado, it may not be out of place to furnish a description of the kind of outfit required for a year's residence there.
The gale lasted for several days, and the men made use of the time prospecting in the vicinity of the Snake River, which now runs through the city.
He compromised with his floating thoughts, bent his energy on a prospecting tour, and in two days flocked together sixteen men.
In the latter place he spent considerable time prospecting for coal, employed by the Vancouver Coal Co.
Uncle Will declared that at the earliest moment they must set off to the headwaters of the creek on a prospecting trip, but to go while ice and snow remained would hardly be advisable, so long as the Thirty-six were not in sight.
There I rested a day, and fell into conversation with a young German, Al King by name, who told me he had spent all of last summer in prospecting on the coast, and had recently explored the region around Dalton's.
The next four days were spent in prospecting the surrounding country, but no gold rewarded our efforts, though numerous reefs and blows of quartz were to be seen in the hills which the lake nearly surrounds.
That night Godfrey and I took it in turns to baste the turkeys, as they were baking between two prospecting dishes.
Travelling and prospecting as we went, we at last succeeded in finding a reef which we thought was worth having.
The second party to follow Forrest's route was that of Carr-Boyd in 1896, whom Breaden accompanied, and who was prospecting for an Adelaide syndicate.
No one can say what systematic prospecting might disclose in this neglected corner of the Colony.
In prospecting a reef, a miner walks along the strike of the outcrop, "napping" as he goes, i.
My old friend Benstead added one more to the many good turns he has done me by recommending Joe Breaden, who had just finished a prospecting journey with Mr. Carr-Boyd and was looking out for a job.
Financial schemes or business never had any charms for me; when therefore I heard that the Company had cabled out that a prospecting party should be despatched at once, I eagerly availed myself of the chance of work so much to my taste.
Plans so simple on paper do not always "pan out" as confidently expected and a more odious job, or one which entailed more hard work, than prospecting with condensers I have not had to undertake.
As I have already stated, he accompanied Mr. Carr-Boyd on a prospecting trip along this part of Forrest's Route.
Thus the duties of the twenty-four hours consisted in chopping and carrying wood, watching the condensers, attending to the camels, occasionally sleeping and eating, and prospecting for gold in spare time.
But do you expect to do any prospecting in New Strike?
I don't expect to go to prospecting right away, and I'm going to make this hotel my headquarters.
As it is I can't do any more than offer to grub-stake you, or let you come prospecting with me.
And I haven't forgotten the time when I wasprospecting in the mountains and used to have to get my own flapjacks and coffee," added the former miner.
This fact should be taken into consideration in prospecting new ground, for many times a claim has been deserted after cleaning up the "bottom," and another man has got far better gold considerably higher up on the sides of the gutter.
A detailed discussion of methods of prospecting will be found in chapter ii.
I have seen many a good prospect broken with the head of a pick and panned in a shovel, but for reef prospecting you should have a pestle and mortar.
Having crushed your gangue to a fine powder you proceed to pan it off in a similar manner to that of washing out alluvial earth, except that in prospecting quartz one has to be much more particular, as the gold is usually finer.
A first prospecting shaft need not usually be more than 5 ft.
Then I was prospecting for gold, and finding rifts in the rocks full and waiting to be torn out, but I could never get the gold, never succeed in hunting or shooting.
The country has been burned over, leaving only a few bunches of spruce, and the surface of the rock has been well exposed, so thatprospecting would be easy.
A prospectingoutfit going there would find plenty of good timber to build their camp, and any amount of fuel.
They quit prospecting and sat down and looked at her and whined, and that set her off again raking over all the leaves in the neighborhood as if she hoped to find me hiding under them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prospecting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
