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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: cast hungry eyes upon the ownerless claim, where they knew a
thousand-thousand dollars waited but shovel and sluice-box. Yet
they dared not touch it; for there was a law which permitted sixty
days to lapse between the staking and the filing, during which
time a claim was immune. The whole country knew of Olaf Nelson's
disappearance, and scores of men made preparation for the jumping
and for the consequent race to Fort Cudahy.
But competition at Forty Mile was limited. With the camp devoting
its energies to the equipping either of Jack Harrington or Louis
Savoy, no man was unwise enough to enter the contest single-
handed. It was a stretch of a hundred miles to the Recorder's
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