Registration of claim, the securing of capital, the obtaining of charter, all these matters were left in his hands.

A few weeks' correspondence, however, revealed the fact that for Western enterprises money was exceedingly difficult to secure.
French was eager to raise money by mortgaging his ranch and all his possessions, but this proposal Kalman absolutely refused to consider.
Brown, too, was opposed to this scheme.

Determined that something should be done, French then entered into contracts with the Railroad Company for the supply of ties.

But though he and Mackenzie took a large force into the woods, and spent their three months in arduous toil, when the traders and the whiskey runners had taken their full toll little was left for the development of the mine.
The actual working of the mine fell to Kalman, aided by Brown.
There was an immediate market for coal among the Galicians of the colony, who much preferred it to wood as a fuel for the clay ovens with which they heated their houses.

But they had little money to spare, and hence, at the beginning of the work, Kalman hit upon the device of bartering coal for labour, two days' work in the mine entitling a labourer to a load of coal.