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The soil was meagre, the bed-rock either close to the surface or constituting the surface itself.
Chapter IX 2010
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Smoke arose from a thousand holes in the snow, where, deep down on bed-rock, in the frozen muck and gravel, men crept and scratched and dug, and ever built more fires to break the grip of the frost.
Chapter XIII 2010
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But gold they had found -- coarse gold; and what more likely than that the big deposit would be found on bed-rock?
Chapter VII 2010
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"Ounce to the pan on a creek called Bonanza, an 'they ain't got to bed-rock yet."
TOO MUCH GOLD 2010
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From the moss and grass the land was frozen to bed-rock, and frozen gravel, hard as granite, defied pick and shovel.
Chapter VI 2010
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"Ounce to the pan on a creek called Bonanza, an 'they ain't got to bed-rock yet."
Too Much Gold 2010
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What's to prevent wood-burning and sinking shafts and drifting along bed-rock?
Chapter VI 2010
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When he prospected, it was of gold in the grass-roots, gold on bed-rock, and gold all the way down.
Chapter VI 2010
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Down to bed-rock they would go, if it were forty feet away.
Chapter VII 2010
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The pay-gravel, thawed on bed-rock and hoisted to the surface, immediately froze again.
Chapter XII 2010
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