The only trouble is that it's spotted." * * * A month passed by, and Bonanza Creek remained quiet.

A sprinkling of men had staked; but most of them, after staking, had gone on down to Forty Mile and Circle City.

The few that possessed sufficient faith to remain were busy building log cabins against the coming of winter.
Carmack and his Indian relatives were occupied in building a sluice box and getting a head of water.

The work was slow, for they had to saw their lumber by hand from the standing forest.

But farther down Bonanza were four men who had drifted in from up river, Dan McGilvary, Dave McKay, Dave Edwards, and Harry Waugh.