The town was to be avoided as too demoralizing a shelter for the men, and barracks were to be erected in which to house them.

Locations of the principal derricks were selected and staked, as well as the sites for the entrance to the shaft, for the machine and blacksmith's shops and for a storage shanty for tools: the Maryland Mining Company's work would require at least two years to complete, and a rational, well-studied plan of procedure was imperative.
"And now, Jack, where are you going to live,--in the village ?" asked his Chief, resting the level and tripod carefully against a tree trunk and seating himself beside Jack on a fallen log.
"Out here, if you don't mind, sir, where I can be on top of the work all the time.

It's but a short ride for Ruth and she can come and go all the time.

I am going to drop some of these trees; get two or three choppers from the village and knock up a log-house like the one I camped in when I was a boy." "Where will you put it ?" asked MacFarlane with a smile, as he turned his head as if in search of a site.

It was just where he wanted Jack to live, but he would not have suggested it.
"Not a hundred yards from where we sit, sir--a little back of those two big oaks.