ILLUSTRATIONS
| Not Demons, but Saviors | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| How Anton's Father was Killed | [12] |
| Coal-Hewers at Work | [13] |
| Where the Branch Line Forks | [13] |
| Knockers | [20] |
| Gathon, Goblin of the Mines | [20] |
| Dwarfs in the Mine | [21] |
| Miners Descending a Shaft | [54] |
| Falling-in of a Mine | [55] |
| Explosion of "Fire Damp" | [55] |
| Into the Poison-Filled Air | [82] |
| U. S. Bureau of Mines Rescue Car | [83] |
| Interior View showing Life-Saving Equipment | [83] |
| Where the Timber goes | [90] |
| Geophone Expert Listening for Tapping of Survivors | [91] |
| Building the Wall for the "Sand-Hogs" | [91] |
| Divining-Rods | [138] |
| The World's Oldest Picture of Gold-Seekers | [139] |
| Australia's Treasure-House | [158] |
| In the Richest Gold Mine of the World | [159] |
| Sutter's Mill | [176] |
| The Rush to the Gold Mines | [177] |
| The Prospector of To-day | [184] |
| Flume at the Melones Mine | [185] |
| The Coming of the Forty-Niners | [194] |
| David Egelston | [195] |
| The Miner's Sluice | [214] |
| Panning Gold on the Klondyke | [215] |
| Where Deserts Yield Millions | [236] |
| The Eater of Mountains | [237] |
| The Top of the Chilkoot Pass | [260] |
| Pass in the Sierra Nevadas | [261] |
| Hydraulicking in Colorado | [300] |
| America's "Gold-Ship" at Work | [301] |
THE BOY WITH THE U S. MINERS
CHAPTER I
UNDERGROUND TERRORS
"Ay, lad," said the old miner, the pale flame of his cap-lamp lighting up his wrinkled face and throwing a distorted shadow on the wall of coal behind, "there's goin' to be a plenty of us killed soon."
"Likely enough, if they're all as careless as you," Clem retorted.
"Carelessness ain't got nothin' to do with it," the old man replied. "The 'knockers' has got to be satisfied! There ain't been an accident here for months. It'll come soon! The spirits o' the mine is gettin' hungry for blood."
"Nonsense, Otto! The idea of an old-timer like you believing in goblins and all that superstitious stuff!"