A "gold rush" of another sort was experienced by the unsuccessful prospecter J. M. Hutchings, whose humorous observations about life in the mining camps were immortalized on paper as "The Miners' Ten Commandments" and sold 100,000 copies. Offered here unabridged and unedited, Mr. Hutchings judicious admonitions include a highly detailed list of alcoholic beverages to be avoided and the specific perils of failing to do so, the impropriety of coveting "single blessedness" and the responsibility to "pop the question like a man," and the complete immorality of abandoning one's claim "before thou hast made thy pile."