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`` No ' e ca n't , '' it was Harry 's interruption as he grasped a pencil and paper . `` I 've got a list of things a mile long for ` im to get . We 're going after this mine ` ammer and tongs now ! '' When noon came , Robert Fairchild , with his mysterious telegram , boarded the train for Denver , while in his pocket was a list demanding the outlay of nearly a thousand dollars : supplies of fuses , of dynamite , of drills , of a forge , of single and double jack sledges , of fulminate caps , -- a little of everything that would be needed in the months to come , if he and ` Arry were to work the mine . It was only a beginning , a small quantity of each article needed , part of which could be picked up in the junk yards at a reasonable figure , other things that would eat quickly into the estimate placed upon the total . And with a capital already dwindling , it meant an expenditure which hurt , but which was necessary , nevertheless . Slow , puffing and wheezing , the train made its way along Clear Creek cañon , crawled across the newly built trestle which had been erected to take the place of that which had gone out with the spring flood of the milky creek , then jangled into Denver .