Cash and Bud dumped all the gold into a pan, and weighed it out on the little scales Cash had for his tests.

It was not a fortune, as fortunes go.

It was probably all the gold Nelson had panned out in a couple of years, working alone and with crude devices.

A little over twenty-three hundred dollars it amounted to, not counting the nuggets which Lovin Child had on the bunk with him.
"Well, it's a start for the kid, anyway," Bud said, leaning back and regarding the heap with eyes shining.

"I helped him find it, and I kinda feel as if I'm square with him now for not giving him my half the claim.
Twenty-three hundred would be a good price for a half interest, as the claims stand, don't yuh think, Cash ?" "Yeah--well, I dunno's I'd sell for that.