The Bounty Hunter And The Heiress - Plot & Excerpts
What might have been a panoramic landscape was littered with mechanized machines constructed to retrieve gold and other precious metals from the bowels of the earth.She watched in amazement as a three-story-tall hoisting wheel churned up dirt and carried it to the surface to dump it in a pile. Narrow catwalks of planks and beams provided a passage for company miners. They carted the dirt in wheelbarrows to mammoth-size screened drums that constantly rotated, sifting out gold flakes and nuggets. Discarded beams and ladders cluttered the once scenic hillside when work sites shifted to another promising location.In the distance individual prospectors panned for placer gold along the streams and tributaries on their ten-foot-square claims. Armed with picks, shovels and pans, they used their wooden cradles to filter gold from the water.Tents of all shapes and sizes were staked haphazardly on the rocky slopes where other prospectors had marked off their forty-square-foot claims for dry digging.
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