RICHES UNDER FOOT
The young prospectors loaded their canoe, food and drilling equipment onto the train. from the end of the unfinished railway, they canoed west through rocky country covered with spruce trees and moss. They met Harry Preston on the south shore of Porcupine Lake. Preston told the young men how he had made his discovery. “I just happened to slip on a big rock, and the heel of my boot stripped away the moss, showing a ragged vein of gold. We staked all the land around here. You might find something farther west where Reuben D’Aigle prospected last year. Benny and Alex took his advice, and paddled into white rock country. They found the pit D’Aigle had dug and the tools he had left. D’Aigle knew about washing gold in Alaskan rivers but nothing about getting it out of hard rock. The white quartz looked discouraging, but the young men decided to stake a few claims. They cut posts to mark the…
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