Tools, drilling-machines and labor on the heading." He read out the cost of each item.

"Then we have to provide a stamp-mill, turbines, flumes and dam; and, though Mr.Weston suggests a wood-burning engine to supply the crushing power, the saving effected would be no great matter.

The point is that we now discover that the cost of these things will in one way or another be nearly double what we stated in our prospectus." "That," said Wannop, dryly, "isn't altogether unusual." "What is more to the purpose is that it will approximately absorb our whole available capital," said the first speaker, who took up another paper.

"Then we have as an alternative scheme several leagues of road and trail cutting, including wooden bridges and a strip that must be dug out of an impassable mountainside.

You have to add to it the cost and maintenance of pack-horses and the rates you'd have to pay the owners of the nearest crushing-plant to do your reducing.