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Title: The Wedge of Gold

Author: C. C. Goodwin

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Language: English

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THE WEDGE OF GOLD

BY C.C. GOODWIN,

EDITOR DAILY TRIBUNE

1893

TRIBUNE JOB PRINTING COMPANY
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH

CONTENTS

I. The Mineral Kingdom

II. Indications

III. Making Money at $4 per day

IV. Smiles and Tears

V. The Voyage

VI. Bonanzas

VII. A Dinner Party

VIII. Ways that are Dark

IX. How Miners are Caught

X. Enchantment

XI. Going to Epsom Downs

XII. Westminster Abbey

XIII. Two Kinds of Sorrow

XIV. Tears and Orange Flowers

XV. Sinister Successes

XVI. A Trip to Africa

XVII. On Their Travels

XVIII. The Soul in Clay

XIX. The Wedge of Gold

XX. The Occident and the Orient Meet

XXI. Shipping a Quartz Mill

XXII. A Lost Trail Discovered

XXIII. Back to England

XXIV. Dealing in Mining Shares

XXV. A Wedge of Gold Indeed

XXVI. Fever Visions

XXVII. Selling Stock Short

XXVIII. Convalescent

XXIX. Springing a Trap

XXX. Grand Opera

XXXI. Marriage Bells

XXXII. Fruition

THE WEDGE OF GOLD.

CHAPTER I.

THE MINERAL KINGDOM.

The splendor of the world is due to mining and to the perfectness of
man's ability to work the minerals which the mines supply. The fields of
the world give men food; with food furnished, a few souls turn to the
contemplation of higher things; but no grand civilization ever came to an
agricultural people until their intellects were quickened by something
beyond their usual occupation.

How man first emerged from utter barbarism is a story that is lost, but
when history first began to pi