The Ballad of Emma O'toole
“It had been a long, tiring day, but he looked back on what he’d done with newfound satisfaction.
After setting up an account at the Emporium and arranging for Emma’s new clothes, he’d gone to the claims office to register his ownership of the Constellation Mine. The next stop had been a visit to the bank, where he’d opened a personal account for his cash and rented a safety-deposit box for the mining stock certificates.
He’d begun to feel damned near respectable.
After lunch he’d hired horses a...nd a Cockney guide to take him up the canyon to his mine. On the way he’d taken time to check out some of the big operations, like the Ontario, the Woodside and the Silver King. Their vast mazes of sheds, hoist works, chutes and narrow-gauge tracks spilled over the mountainsides like fair-sized towns. The guide had told him how, when faced with flooding in their deeper shafts, the owners of the Ontario had installed a huge steam-powered Cornish-style pump to suck the groundwater up to a drainage tunnel.MoreLess
After setting up an account at the Emporium and arranging for Emma’s new clothes, he’d gone to the claims office to register his ownership of the Constellation Mine. The next stop had been a visit to the bank, where he’d opened a personal account for his cash and rented a safety-deposit box for the mining stock certificates.
He’d begun to feel damned near respectable.
After lunch he’d hired horses a...nd a Cockney guide to take him up the canyon to his mine. On the way he’d taken time to check out some of the big operations, like the Ontario, the Woodside and the Silver King. Their vast mazes of sheds, hoist works, chutes and narrow-gauge tracks spilled over the mountainsides like fair-sized towns. The guide had told him how, when faced with flooding in their deeper shafts, the owners of the Ontario had installed a huge steam-powered Cornish-style pump to suck the groundwater up to a drainage tunnel.MoreLess
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