This proved to be good advice, for when the chairman introduced Shock as the Prospector from Loon Lake, Shock simply began, as Brown said, to "yarn.
There was an Irishman and a Frenchman, I remember, both Roman Catholics, but both ready to swallow the Confession of Faith if the Prospector ordered them.
When a prospector comes down from the hills and sells a prospect for a good figure, from a hundred to five hundred dollars, and sometimes more, these fellows get about him and roll him.
A breed, half dead with the saddle, came from the Old Prospector askin' for the preacher.
Shock, with a feeling of despair in his heart, thinking of the Old Prospector in his pain and of little Patsy lying in semi-unconsciousness in the back room of the Loon Creek Stopping Place.
In these days his chief comfort was Shock, whose old habit of sharing his experiences in imagination with those who could not share them in reality, relieved for the Old Prospectormany a monotonous hour.
I told you about--that old prospector who lives at Loon Lake?
Brehm, the famous naturalist, has furnished about the best description of a luckless prospector caught in the toils.
His boat, clothes and even mining tools had all been bartered for food, and the discomfited prospector was now living practically on the charity of his savage hosts.
So far as I could ascertain, throughout the journey up the Yukon, the immediate neighbourhood of Dawson City is about the only district in the North-west Province where a prospector may hope to meet with anything like success.
A word now frequently heard (and unknown in 1896) was "Musher," signifying a prospector who is not afraid to explore the unknown.
But I cannot too strongly caution the prospector not to trust to theory but to prove his lode and his metal by following it down on the underlie.
This the experienced prospector knows, and generally his shafts and cuttings are made at such points.
An old prospector will judge from six ounces of lode stuff within a few pennyweights of what will be the yield of a ton.
The Prospector ought to include this book in his library of reference, and the stay-at-home reader will be interested and informed by its contents.
What prospector has not at times been troubled for the want of a forge?
The Prospector still pushes his small pack-mule through the snow of glacial passes, seeking the unexplored, and therefore more alluring, mountain ranges.
It was a bewildering maze into which the prospector must descend in search of the gold which is marked in yellow letters on some maps of the state.
The prospector toiled in his overland tunnel on the chance of cracking the apex of a vein.
There was a town down the road which I had first heard discussed nigh twenty years ago by a broken-down prospector in a box-car.
I've been a prospector most o' my time, but I haven't lost anything.
It was in one of its gulches, now a street, that a prospector wearied out by unsuccessful tramps and reduced to his last dollar, stuck in his pick to try for a "last chance.
A prospector from across the mighty gorge saw with his glass a quartz vein on Stephen.
Why, I call it the Juniper,' says the old prospector kind of innocent; and Abe he jumped right up in the air.
Get the point--he thought the old prospector was making a joke of it and calling his mine the Jew-Nipper!
That was pulling it pretty strong, just to freeze out a little prospector and rob him of a ton or two of ore; and yet Denver had proof that it was true.
Old Abe was about as easy as Bible-Back Murray when you showed him a rich piece of ore and after this prospector had et up all his grub he'd drift back to town for more.
A prospector that was camping here went up on that little hill to rock his old burro back to camp and right on top he found a piece of silver that was so pure you could cut it with your knife.
I was with a prospector who was hooked on to the Company somehow, but I worked on my own account for the prospector by the day.
Joe Dance, that old prospector that died last year, he lost his mind lookin' for the big lode.
If a rock is stained red, the prospector examines it to see whether it contains iron; if it is green, he looks for copper.
Generally a prospector is looking for some one special metal, and in his search he often overlooks some other metal; for instance, thousands of the gold-seekers who rushed to California in 1849 hurried through Nevada on their way.
When these few things have been brought together, theprospector and the donkey set out.
The best prospector is a man who has learned to keep his eyes open and to recognize the signs of gold and silver and other metals.
Sometimes the prospector also takes with him a magnifying glass and a little acid to test specimens, but usually he trusts to his eyes alone.
It was somewhere in the hills back of Copah, and Grigsby, the prospector who had discovered and opened it, had an office in the camp.
He saw no locating stakes, such as a prospector always sets up conspicuously to mark his claim; and there were no signs of the precious metal, and no holes to indicate an attempt to find it.
As a rule, however, the prospector scorns all such dangers, and if he escapes the dreaded fever, trusts to his rifle for protection and his luck for fortune, and straightway proceeds to cut a path into some unknown river valley.
A lone prospector had built his cabin on the west slope of the Kootenais, and hereafter Breed avoided this vicinity.
The prospector was an old hand at rifling wolf dens.
The prospector had rolled the cloth round a ten-pound piece of fresh venison to keep the flies from it.
The prospectorreturned to his cabin and while still a mile away he heard the bellowing of the dog.
The prospector kept a single hound and when he found a fresh wolf kill in the spring he put the dog on the tracks that led from it, keeping him in leash, and the hound led him to the den.
Let us then return to the Herr Prospector Junes' choice let us accede to this so good man's request, hein?
And the Herr Prospector Junes he must ride before us always, is it not?
The other prospector sleeps in the same tent sometimes disagrees with this chap as to the best place to test.
Anyhow, he was a goodprospector and a reliable man, and when the rush for the northern fields took place about two years ago.
Gentlemen," said the other prospector a tall slab-sided individual whose English was of a pronounced American flavor.
A white prospector would certainly have taken the tobacco.
The prospector crawls through tangled forests, and packs his stores across snowy divides; shallow shafts cave in, rude dams are swept away.
The farmer prospector should measure first the quantity of water to be depended on, and then the number of feet fall to be had.
Engineers have developed many complicated formulas for determining the flow of water through weirs, taking into account fine variations that the farm prospector need not heed.
Quantity of Water Let us take still another problem which the prospector may be called on to solve: A man finds that he can conveniently get a fall of 27 feet.
An ordinary foot rule, or a folding rule, will give results sufficiently accurate for the water prospectorin this instance.
Bret Harte's Youngest Prospector in Calaveras was not an uncommon child.
It was not long after his arrival in camp the year before, that the young prospector and miner, Gibbs by name, began looking upon the wife of the old shaman, Kuiktuk, in a way that boded trouble for someone.
This is what maddens the prospector or sheep-herder lost in the desert.
Lawson came to our help, however, with the information that an occasional prospector or horse hunter crossed the canyon from the Saddle, where a trail led down to the river.
The two younger girls then told of the pit and the river and all agreed that it might be the stream found by the prospector before the landslide covered his claim.
He had been an old prospector in the Klondike, but not a successful one, as he was too honest.
My old prospector says he couldn't make out very well in the dark, but it seemed to him as if the engine which hauled away our bridge-timbers didn't have any tender.
The next night I crossed the Timanyoni and tackled the oldprospector again.
Tom was a prospectorwho `came in' occasionally for supplies or licences; and there came a day when Barberton was convulsed by Lying Tom's latest.
Once I took him out to Fig Tree Creek fifteen miles away, and left him with a prospector friend at whose camp in the hills it seemed he would be much better off and much happier.
To the Prospector the ring now seemed perfect, but the goldsmith placed a jeweller's magnifier in his eye, and scrutinised the shining marriage-token lest it might contain the slightest flaw.
So lucky on the diggings, so unlucky in town, Bill the Prospector took the box with a slightly trembling hand and rattled the dice.
Bill the Prospector and Moonlight are on guard at the door, for though they have no interest in the League's claims, as owners of the two richest patches on the field they stand hand-in-glove with the leaders of that strong combination.
Very sorry, mister, but time's nearly up," was the only comment that the Prospector made.
He was about to throw, when the Prospector rose from his seat and, swaying, caught at the suave gambler's arm for support.
The Prospector might have said a great deal: he might have expatiated in lurid language on his admiration of Tresco's self-sacrifice, but he said nothing.
Moonlight had armed himself with a pick, the Prospector had grasped a shovel, Tresco drew a revolver from inside his "jumper.
Tresco and the Prospectorwere eating their "tucker" beneath the boughs of a spreading black-birch.
With a mighty back-kick, the Prospector lodged the heel of his heavy boot fairly on Scarlett's shin.
The Prospector put three pounds in the centre of the table beside Tresco's stake, and began to play.
Benjamin Tresco, standing on the curb of the pavement, watched the advent of the prospector with an altogether remarkable interest, which rose to positive restlessness when he saw the digger pause before the entrance of the Kangaroo Bank.
But Tresco knew, as did also Jake Ruggles and the Prospector who watched him, that the end of his labours had come.
Organized mining companies here took the place of the detached prospector of Colorado and Nevada.
Hank coughed behind his hand, and motioned toward Ross, busy with his patient; but at first the prospector was too intent on his food to notice.
As this prospector was eating his dinner, he most unexpectedly gave Ross his first news of Weimer.
He said you was pannin' out more like an old prospectorthan a tenderfoot.
Ever since the talkative prospector had passed through the stage camp he had wondered what manner of man Weimer was.
The prospectorhad said, "'Curious how that snow-blindness should have touched Dutch Weimer.
This prospector pegs away at the rocks, getting specimens of ore and examining them under his microscope.
But every prospector dreams of uncovering a pocket of "free gold" ore, quartz through which the gold is scattered in visible particles or streaks and can be extracted in its pure state with the aid of a hammer and a knife blade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prospector" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
