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The Boy With the U.S. Miners

The Boy With the U.S. Miners

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THE BOY WITH
THE U. S. MINERS

BY
FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER

With Thirty-six Illustrations

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BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Copyright, 1922,
By Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.

All Rights Reserved

The Boy With the U. S. Miners

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

BERWICK & SMITH CO.,
NORWOOD PRESS,
NORWOOD MASS.


PREFACE

No walk of life is more wild and adventurous than that of the questing miner, whom neither Arctic cold nor tropic heat can bar in his mad race for the buried treasures of the Earth; no profession is more hazardous than that of the working miner, whose every step underground is full of peril.

Wealth is not all. The thrill of the miner's life lies not in the making of millions. It lies in the ruggedness of his manhood, in the vigor of his partnerships, in the roaring ways of the mining camps, and the life of open spaces.

Heroism and daring mark the miner. From the waterless deserts of California to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, from the loftiest peaks of the snow-capped Sierras to the stifling depths of the Carson Sink, the prospector has prowled. Lonely and forgotten, his discoveries have brought great states into being; hungry and poor, he has opened vaults of riches thousandfold vaster than the treasuries of kings.

To give a glimpse of the lives of such men, to reveal the amazing wealth which the Earth yields to those who are willing to dare, and to set forth what an incalculable debt of gratitude the United States owes to the miner, is the aim and purpose of

The Author


CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
PAGE
Underground Terrors 11
CHAPTER II
Entombed Alive 40
CHAPTER III
The Dangers of Rescue 67
CHAPTER IV
Eight Days of Dark 98
CHAPTER V
The Lure of Gold 128
CHAPTER VI
Nuggets! 146
CHAPTER VII
The Forty-Niners 174
CHAPTER VIII
The Great Bonanza 204
CHAPTER IX
Where Treasure Hides 232
CHAPTER X
The Roaring North 256
CHAPTER XI
The Lonely Island 276
CHAPTER XII
A Siberian Filibuster 298

ILLUSTRATIONS

Not Demons, but Saviors Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
How Anton's Father was Killed 12
Coal-Hewers at Work 13
Where the Branch Line Forks 13
Knockers 20
Gathon, Goblin of the Mines 20
Dwarfs in the Mine 21
Miners Descending a Shaft

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