It is no use to the redskins.
They don't do any trade with the whites, and they don't wear gold ornaments.

They are wise enough to know that if they were to show much gold about them it would make the whites more eager than ever to come in among their mountains in search of it, so if the Mexican party gathered some up afore they went under, like enough we shall find it." It was with deep satisfaction that they at last caught sight of the mountain with three sharp peaks, but it was four days after they first saw it that they reached a point due south of it.

They were now in a wide valley running east and west; to the south a wall of rock rose in a seemingly unbroken line.

On the northern side of the valley the hills sloped away, rising one above another, with the peaks of the Sisters visible above them all.
They had left their animals in charge of Boston Joe, in a clump of trees four miles back, as the miners were of opinion that some Indian village might lie somewhere in the neighborhood, and that it would be safer to make their way on foot.

One of the many branches of the Gila ran along the center of the valley, but except in deep pools it was now dry.
"Now we must keep a sharp lookout for marks on the hills," Dave said; "we know we are about right as to the line, but we may have to go two or three miles north or as much south before we get a mark just bearing on that middle peak.