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Placer Mining
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
enough gold to enable a miner to go home and buy a farm or business.
Quotations
1900
All those who got far enough down the river found it easy enough to make a "grub-stake," and though a "home-stake" . . . was not so easily found, the Yukon gold-fields obtained a fair reputation among the placer-miners of the coast.
1926
He'll likely go out to the creeks and make a home-stake . . . and then we want his trade.