Peters came in yesterday and told me." McTeague turned to the speaker.
"Is that a gravel mine ?" he asked.
"No, no, quartz." "I'm a miner; that's why I asked." "Well I've mined some too.

I had a hole in the ground meself, but she was silver; and when the skunks at Washington lowered the price of silver, where was I?
Fitchered, b'God!" "I was looking for a job." "Well, it's mostly cattle down here in the Panamint, but since the strike over at Gold Gulch some of the boys have gone prospecting.
There's gold in them damn Panamint Mountains.

If you can find a good long 'contact' of country rocks you ain't far from it.

There's a couple of fellars from Redlands has located four claims around Gold Gulch.

They got a vein eighteen inches wide, an' Peters says you can trace it for more'n a thousand feet.