In this richest of diggings it cost out by their feverish, unthinking methods another dollar was left hopelessly in the earth.

Given another year, and most of the claims would be worked out, and the sum of the gold taken out would no more than equal what was left behind.
Organization was what was needed, he decided; and his quick imagination sketched Eldorado Creek, from mouth to source, and from mountain top to mountain top, in the hands of one capable management.

Even steam-thawing, as yet untried, but bound to come, he saw would be a makeshift.

What should be done was to hydraulic the valley sides and benches, and then, on the creek bottom, to use gold-dredges such as he had heard described as operating in California.
There was the very chance for another big killing.

He had wondered just what was precisely the reason for the Guggenhammers and the big English concerns sending in their high-salaried experts.