THE WEDGE OF GOLD

BY C.C. GOODWIN,

EDITOR DAILY TRIBUNE

1893

TRIBUNE JOB PRINTING COMPANY
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.--The Mineral Kingdom
CHAPTER II.--Indications
CHAPTER III.--Making Money at $4 per day
CHAPTER IV.--Smiles and Tears
CHAPTER V.--The Voyage
CHAPTER VI.--Bonanzas
CHAPTER VII.--A Dinner Party
CHAPTER VIII.--Ways that are Dark
CHAPTER IX.--How Miners are Caught
CHAPTER X.--Enchantment
CHAPTER XI.--Going to Epsom Downs
CHAPTER XII.--Westminster Abbey
CHAPTER XIII.--Two Kinds of Sorrow
CHAPTER XIV.--Tears and Orange Flowers
CHAPTER XV.--Sinister Successes
CHAPTER XVI.--A Trip to Africa
CHAPTER XVII.--On Their Travels
CHAPTER XVIII.--The Soul in Clay
CHAPTER XIX.--The Wedge of Gold
CHAPTER XX.--The Occident and the Orient Meet
CHAPTER XXI.--Shipping a Quartz Mill
CHAPTER XXII.--A Lost Trail Discovered
CHAPTER XXIII.--Back to England
CHAPTER XXIV.--Dealing in Mining Shares
CHAPTER XXV.--A Wedge of Gold Indeed
CHAPTER XXVI.--Fever Visions
CHAPTER XXVII.--Selling Stock Short
CHAPTER XXVIII.--Convalescent
CHAPTER XXIX.--Springing a Trap
CHAPTER XXX.--Grand Opera
CHAPTER XXXI.--Marriage Bells
CHAPTER XXXII.--Fruition

THE WEDGE OF GOLD.

CHAPTER I.

THE MINERAL KINGDOM.

The splendor of the world is due to mining and to the perfectness of man's ability to work the minerals which the mines supply. The fields of the world give men food; with food furnished, a few souls turn to the contemplation of higher things; but no grand civilization ever came to an agricultural people until their intellects were quickened by something beyond their usual occupation.

How man first emerged from utter barbarism is a story that is lost, but when history first began to pick up the threads of events and to weave them into a record, the loom upon which the record was woven was made of gold. One of the rivers that flowed through Eden also "compassed the whole land