Also, Henderson persuaded a party ofprospectors bound for Stewart River, to forgo their trip and go down and locate with him.
More steamers were added, but the tide of prospectors welled always in advance.
This sort of thing happens to prospectorsevery day.
I am sick and tired of the tricks you prospectors think you can put over on us.
He'd sleep in a community shed and eat at a soup kitchen with the other prospectors who had turned back.
Bristly-bearded old prospectors told a hundred different stories about it, and the cynical bartenders chimed in with their versions.
It told about the depression that had hit Venusborg, and hinted that Krandall might have to go into bankruptcy if some of his prospectors didn't strike something good.
This annoyed Jim, who knew that while hard-bitten prospectors braved the risks of starvation on the snowy trail, greedy company-floaters often got the reward.
I allow it looks ridiculous, but my notion is some fires start themselves; you'll find them burning in belts of woods the Indians and prospectorsleave alone.
The game laws that limit the time for shooting are seldom enforced against bush ranchers and prospectors who kill deer and grouse for food.
Prospectors don't load up with tents and stores like that.
On the other hand, some of the prospectors themselves belong to the class of conquerors, while many would have gladly been the pioneers of permanent colonies.
Nevertheless the prospectors form a separate class; and Sir Walter Raleigh, though an adventurer in every other way as well, is undoubtedly their chief.
There had been sinister rumours of two lone prospectors who had perished up in that savage country, of two bodies that lay rotting and half buried by a landslide.
Some prospectors have just come in and say they met him heading for the White Snake Valley.
Stray prospectors swore they had seen it, just at dusk, and its sightless, staring eyes were too terrible ever to forget.
I'm only puzzled that none of the timber-lease prospectors has recorded the place.
I'd have done so had it been a few years earlier, but the whole country is overrun with mineral prospectors and timber-righters now.
Cow-punchers and prospectors and such don't look like and don't act like what tenderfoots is accustomed to, and so they size 'em up to be different all the way through.
They thought to stop us and turn us in there by stories of Indian raids just below us,--three prospectors murdered twenty-four miles this side of the Sonora line.
Two strangers out there, sergeant;--say they're prospectors and been jumped by Apaches.
I'd have done so, had it been a few years earlier, but the whole country is overrun with mineral prospectorsand timber righters now.
I'm only puzzled that none of the timber-lease prospectors have recorded the place.
Our prospectors dream of it as the Mother Lode, and some spend half their lives in search of it; it was called El Dorado three hundred years ago.
Until mining became a systematic business, prospectors were dissatisfied with the smaller deposits of precious metal and dreamed of golden hills farther away.
After that event the hill was dug over with great earnestness, but without other result to the prospectors than the cultivation of their patience.
Two prospectorssubsequently attempted to explore the cave, but the entrance was barred by "the thing.
Miles of mountain region had never been explored when a party of California prospectors came to the mining village of Jacksonville.
Shortly before the time set for his arrival a man appeared on the platform looking like one of the many prospectors who frequented the country.
When prospectors came through in the eighties and nineties they found scores of old copper mines which had been worked by the aborigines many decades ago.
Perhaps he belongs to a party of prospectors who found a good thing last fall, and got snowed in before they could get out.
The young prospectors slipped back through the thickets, almost to the upper end of the trail, and concealed themselves in the hemlocks.
There was a chance, however, that they might meet some party of prospectors or Indians.
Flinging open the door, she all but ran into Jim Baley, one of the three young prospectors in her outfit, who was just home from work.
For a long time I've been feeling mean about our plans to hop in and file on land close to those other prospectors if they made a strike.
It is true, that long ago, heavy timber was cut from these woods, but the wealth thus obtained was as nothing to that which has gone up in conflagrations, started by the careless lumbermen and prospectors and hunters of a later day.
Evidently they were natives by their look--trappers or prospectors of some sort.
The prospectors had left the spot and were not coming back; once more he had arrived too late.
He had provisions for only a day or two; one of the prospectors was obviously an expert mountaineer, which led Prescott to believe that they would travel faster than he was capable of doing.
It was, however, impossible that the prospectors had climbed the crags that hemmed him in, and believing they could not be far in front of him, he held on until late in the afternoon.
It was steep, and filled with ice in places, but freshly dislodged stones and scratches on the rocks showed him that the prospectors had gone that way.
Then Prescott noticed that the snow was pitted with small holes, about two feet apart, from which he concluded that the prospectors had carried a grubhoe, a tool resembling a mountaineer's ice-ax.
She must live and struggle with savage Nature as the prospectors and half-breeds did.
I don't like to be stung, and the woods are full of dead-beat prospectors ready to put you wise about rich pay-dirt for a dollar or two.
In summer, miners and prospectors went to bed at sunset, and Driscoll read no books or newspapers.
Nobody knows yet what there is in the rocks up yonder, but we have heard of other prospectors striking pay-dirt and making nothing of their discovery.
Strange came back with a bagful of mineral specimens, and said he'd struck it rich, but the old man knew nothing about mining and didn't want any prospectors mussing up things round there.
When the latter rots and cracks, voyageurs and prospectors wait until the melting snow sweeps the grinding floes away and canoes can be launched.
The few white trappers and prospectors who now and then entered the wilds were, for the most part, good-humored, sociable men; the Metis and Indians were friendly.
The prospectorshad vanished into the trackless desolation, and now deep snow had fallen the wilds would hide them well.
The rich strike in Ontario had not been made yet, and the prospectors who pushed into the forests with drill and dynamite were regarded as rash enthusiasts.
It was hardly a range of hills, but rather what prospectors call a height of land; a moderately elevated watershed marking off two river basins.
There the rocks break out among the pine forests and in the last few years prospectors have found valuable minerals.
She knew what the prospectors were up against, and though she smiled when he talked about the ore, I knew she had an anxious heart.
The next morning the prospectors took the horses and started for the south, while Blake's party pushed on north with loads that severely tried their strength.
Well, it must have struck you that Clarke's account of the whereabouts of the Stony camp doesn't agree with what the prospectors and this Indian told us.
You'd starve to death like that poor devil that some prospectors found in that gulch yonder--turned to dusty bones, with a pack rat's nest in his chest and a rock under his head.
Shortly afterwards Doc shot a wild pig, and, as all prospectors adopt the rule of dining when opportunity offers, a halt was called for that purpose.
This is thought to have been an attack upon two prospectors who were known to have been in the neighborhood at the time, and who have never since been heard of.
Travellers, Explorers and Prospectors Describe the Country as a Veritable Store House of Mineral Wealth.
From Mackenzie river sub-district I have reports of a few prospectors in different parts, but of no success.
At present it is still quite numerous along the Yukon and its tributaries, though the influx of prospectors and the settling of the Klondike region has already resulted in a marked falling off in Moose and an increase of Moose meat.
In the winter this is the staple diet of both Indians and whites, and on account of the high price paid—one dollar or two dollars per pound—many prospectors have found Moose hunting even more remunerative than mining.
The name tells the hopes of early prospectors who worked there before the National Park was created.
The name is said to have been given by early prospectors for minerals.
The exploration of L'Épine and O'Kimmon of necessity was conducted chiefly by day, but one night the prospectors could not be still, the moon on the sand was so bright!
Prospectors and Pony Rider Boys joined in a roar at the expense of the fat boy.
With a yell the Pony Rider Boys and the prospectors sprang forward and a few moments later the prisoners, whose wounds Professor Zepplin had dressed, were securely bound.
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