Despite Dr. Rose Burcham's much-vaunted business acumen, the money needed to build the mills, pay the miners, and to construct the necessary buildings, still had to come from somewhere.
What's more was that Dr. Burcham was pretty ignorant about the processing of ore- at least during these early days. And, when the three male partners decided to celebrate the first shipment of ore to the Garlock mill for processing, they took advantage of her ignorance by telling her that they needed some silver coins for use in extracting the gold from the rocks.
In reality, of course, the men wanted the money to buy the celebratory drinks. Ever perceptive, Dr. Burcham figured this out, after Singleton made two more requests silver coins!
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