# Gold

Author: Leslie, Burt

Genre: Short stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78180

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Gold+Leslie&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

For more than fifteen years the Elkhorn mine yielded a steady output of low grade gold ore sufficient to make “Hard” Sturdivant one of the richest operators in the State of Colorado. Then late one afternoon the day shift on the fifth level, five hundred feet below the surface of the earth, set an unusually heavy blast. It splintered a three-foot plate of blue quartz, tore holes in seven feet of talc, and when the men came back into the drift they faced the breast of a tunnel that gleamed and sparkled with pure gold.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gold-78180/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/gold-78180/chapters/2/index.md)