It's hid somewhere.

Calkins used to keep his'n under the floor.

So did Watts.
We'll find it later.

An' the river, an' the dry gulches on both sides of the valley--they're full of it! It's all gold, Johnny--gold everywhere!" He pointed ahead to where the valley rose in a green slope between two mountains half a mile away.
"That's the break," he said.

"It don't seem very far now, do it, Joanne ?" His silence seemed to have dropped from him like a mantle, and there was joy in what he was telling.