Locations
of the principal derricks were selected and staked, as well as the
sites for the entrance to the shaft, for the machine and
blacksmith's shops and for a storage shanty for tools: the
Maryland Mining Company's work would require at least two years to
complete, and a rational, well-studied plan of procedure was
imperative.
"And now, Jack, where are you going to live,--in the village?"
asked his Chief, resting the level and tripod carefully against a
tree trunk and seating himself beside Jack on a fallen log.
"Out here, if you don't mind, sir, where I can be on top of the
work all the time. It's but a short ride for Ruth and she can come
and go all the time. I am going to drop some of these trees; get
two or three choppers from the village and knock up a log-house
like the one I camped in when I was a boy."
"Where will you put it?" asked MacFarlane with a smile, as he
turned his head as if in search of a site. It was just where he
wanted Jack to live, but he would not have suggested it.
"Not a hundred yards from where we sit, sir--a little back of
those two big oaks.
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