Learned all about mining back east in the cities, and couldn't sink a hole for a stick of giant-powder to save his life.

Been down at Vancouver fixing up with the directors what they're going to tell the stockholders.

Still, I guess he's not going to run this company's stock up very much." "How's that ?" Weston asked.
The man lowered his voice confidentially.
"Well," he said, "there's a good deal in mining that you can't learn from books, and a little you can't learn at all.

It has to be given you when you're born.

Colvin's a hustler, but that's 'bout all he is, and I've a kind of notion they aren't going to bottom on the richest of this vein.