human
Jack, I hope you have come home to stay. Look around and find some business that you think will suit you, and I will buy it for you if it does not take too much money.
gpt
Thanks, father, said Jack;
human
How much are miner's wages in Virginia City?
gpt
Four dollars a day; about twenty-four pounds a month,
human
And what are the expenses?
gpt
Four shillings a day for board; three pounds per month for a room, and clothes and cigars to any amount you please,
human
Why, you could not have saved more than £150 or £160 per annum at those rates,
gpt
No, said Jack;
human
Did your friend Sedgwick do as well as you did?
gpt
He made a good bit of money, something like £20,000, but he turned it over to his father in Ohio. I think the plan is to buy a place near the old home. He only brought a few hundred pounds with him. Indeed, he only ran over to oblige me. We were old friends; at one time we worked on the same shift in the mine.
human
What a wonderful business that mining is, he said.
gpt
Stetson, the broker over the way, is promoting a mining enterprise in South Africa. According to the showing, it is an immense property. Here is the prospectus of the company. Put it in your pocket, and at your leisure run over it.
human
Wedge of Gold.