title: Sell the Pig: Tales of an Accidental Gold Miner
author: Alan Farmer
description: Alan Farmer is first and entrepreneur and second an economist. This his first book is based upon his true experiences in the gold business in the United States and Canada during the last gold rush of the twentieth century. Alan was born in England and came to Canada to attend Mc Gill University BA (Econ) where he became exposed to the booming mining industry during the Korean War. He now lives in the Columbia River Valley in British Columbia with his wife a successful artist
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  A Strange Goldfield
  
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  # A Strange Goldfield
  
  
  ### Guy Boothby
  
  
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  Of course nine out of every ten intelligent persons will refuse to
  
  
  believe that there could be a grain of truth in the story I am now
  
  
  going to tell you. The tenth may have some small faith in my veracity,
  
  
  but what I think of his intelligence I am going to keep to myself.
  
  
  In a certain portion of a certain Australian Colony two miners,
  
  
  when out prospecting in what was then, as now, one of the dreariest
  
  
  parts of the Island Continent, chanced upon a rich find.
  
  
  They applied to Government for the usual reward, and in less than a
  
  
  month three thousand people were settled on the Field. What privations
  
  
  they had to go through to get there, and the miseries they had to
  
  
  endure when they did reach their journey's end, have only a remote
  
  
  bearing on this story, but they 