He sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars, and took the train back home. The junk man called in a mining engineer to took at the mine and do a little calculating. The engineer advised that the project had failed because the owner was not familiar with " fault lines." His calculation showed that the vein would be found just three feet form where uncle sam had stopped drilling. The junk man took million of dollars on ore form the mine because he knew enough to seek expert counsel before giving up.