grubstaking

Henry George was not yet immune from the gold-fever microbe, and several times was lured away into the mountains, "grubstaking" a man with hope plus and secrets as to gold-bearing quartz that would paralyze the world.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Elbert Hubbard 1885

Henry George was not yet immune from the gold-fever microbe, and several times was lured away into the mountains, “grubstaking” a man with hope plus and secrets as to gold-bearing quartz that would paralyze the world.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

Along with the awakened memories came also a sudden recollection of a tale once told him in Denver by a prospector, whom he was grubstaking for the San Juan country, of a lost mine in the Oro Fino mountains of

With Hoops of Steel Florence Finch Kelly 1898

"You know as well as I do that papers ain't often drawn on grubstaking contracts.

Rimrock Trail 1906