My figure was a million.

Still, I honestly believe that if I had been offered it, it would have had no other effect than to make me hold off for more.
I found abundant enjoyment in being rich.

A man offered me a three-hundred-dollar horse, and wanted to take my simple, unendorsed note for it.

That brought the most realizing sense I had yet had that I was actually rich, beyond shadow of doubt.

It was followed by numerous other evidences of a similar nature--among which I may mention the fact of the butcher leaving us a double supply of meat and saying nothing about money.
By the laws of the district, the "locators" or claimants of a ledge were obliged to do a fair and reasonable amount of work on their new property within ten days after the date of the location, or the property was forfeited, and anybody could go and seize it that chose.