Tous ces hommes venaient de prospecter dans les monts Nevada a la recherche de mines d’argent et ils arrivaient a Salt Lake City, espérant y trouver les capitaux nécessaires pour exploiter les filons découverts. — Jusqu’alors Jefferson s’était montré aussi ardent au gain que les autres, mais cet incident inattendu allait changer le cours de ses idées.
He and they had been among the Nevada Mountains prospecting for silver, and were returning to Salt Lake City in the hope of raising capital enough to work some lodes which they had discovered. He had been as keen as any of them upon the business until this sudden incident had drawn his thoughts into another channel.