Fortunately, even with the mud, the road up the mountain was still passable. Charity wasn’t so sure it would be by the end of the day. Men from D. K. Prospecting Supplies, Inc., unloaded the dredge and the rest of the machinery she and Buck had picked out, then headed back down the mountain before the mud got so deep they couldn’t make it. There was a workshop of sorts in one of the sheds out back and Buck had ordered the building materials he needed for the sluice box to be unloaded there. “It’ll take a while to get everything put together,” he said, and started off in that direction, leaving Charity to examine the portable dredge the men had unloaded that would need to be assembled. She had seen a variety of different kinds in the prospecting magazines she had been reading. A gold dredge was a piece of equipment that worked like an oversized vacuum cleaner, sucking creek water, rocks, gravel, and anything else it encountered into a long, flexible pipe at one end and dumping it into the sluice box at the other.
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