the miner, is the aim and purpose of

THE AUTHOR

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I PAGE
UNDERGROUND TERRORS 11

CHAPTER II
ENTOMBED ALIVE 40

CHAPTER III
THE DANGERS OF RESCUE 67

CHAPTER IV
EIGHT DAYS OF DARK 98

CHAPTER V
THE LURE OF GOLD 128

CHAPTER VI
NUGGETS! 146

CHAPTER VII
THE FORTY-NINERS 174

CHAPTER VIII
THE GREAT BONANZA 204

CHAPTER IX
WHERE TREASURE HIDES 232

CHAPTER X
THE ROARING NORTH 256

CHAPTER XI
THE LONELY ISLAND 276

CHAPTER XII
A SIBERIAN FILIBUSTER 298

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