We are glad to know that New York capital has been enlisted in the development of the mines of this region.

Having seen the ores and assays, we are satisfied that the mines of the District are very valuable--anything but wild-cat.
Once more native imbecility had carried the day, and I had lost a million! It was the "blind lead" over again.
Let us not dwell on this miserable matter.

If I were inventing these things, I could be wonderfully humorous over them; but they are too true to be talked of with hearty levity, even at this distant day.

[True, and yet not exactly as given in the above figures, possibly.

I saw Marshall, months afterward, and although he had plenty of money he did not claim to have captured an entire million.