American Ranch

Chapter 39 Jinsha River

The endless grassland is withered and yellow.

Under the blue sky, the prairie is like a chessboard, and the haystacks are like chess pieces dropped by giants in the starry sky.

The crops in the field are being harvested one after another.Planted pastures have slowed down and have begun to be harvested in large areas.

Grasses such as alfalfa and ryegrass are perennial grasses that can be harvested for many years from a single sowing.

Several fertilizer spreaders ran all over the pasture, and trucks of fermented manure were scattered on the grasslands and farmland.

Chen Mo bought an unknown number of excavators and came back. He picked a small stream near the snow-capped mountains and began digging for gold...

Then I picked up a sand washing machine from the ranch, and after a simple transformation, it became a mining washing machine.

There is no gold in the creek, but Chen Mo has... There are many, many more.

The eighth [-]-head cattle shed was built.

Chen Mo went back to the breeding base of the cattle farm with nothing to do. The cattle shed here is very simple, with prefabricated fire-resistant wooden walls and vents on the walls. The roof of the cattle shed is a steel structure with large colored steel tiles.

Simple, but neat.

There are five large cowsheds in the breeding base, and more than 3000 cows have been accommodated, and almost all adult cows that can be sold have been bought back.

Brett with the veterinarian and breeder checking the health of the cows...

"Is the work going well?" Chen Mo walked over.

"It's okay." Bright gestured an OK gesture, rubbed his head and continued: "There is not much money left in the ranch account. Only a down payment was paid for the purchase of breeding cattle, and the remaining amount will be settled within one year."

"How big is the funding gap?"

"Around 1500 million. If you don't owe too much money to the bank, I won't be in a hurry... A great ranch should have its own long-term plan. Even if it can't breed new breeds of cattle, like our Angus cattle For Limousin cattle, we should also try our best to select breeding cattle and cows with excellent genetics, and breed them from generation to generation...so a virtuous circle will be formed.” Bright had a headache.

The current Snow Mountain Ranch is very dangerous and cannot withstand any storms and twists and turns. Even the flu disease in the cattle may bankrupt the ranch.

Therefore, the five large cowsheds in the breeding base are somewhat special.A large cowshed is divided into 25 small cowsheds, and each small cowshed only raises 40 cows.

The big cowsheds are long rows, connected in a row, and the building length of the big cowsheds is 1300 meters.There is still a large area of ​​outdoor activity space on the left and right sides of each calf shed...

Feeding at large intervals is just in case.

The debt of Xueshan Ranch is too great, and even a little mistake cannot be made.

"Don't worry too much about the ranch, just take it step by step. I should be able to pay off the bank loan before the end of the tax filing season." Chen Mo smiled.

"Have you found the gold mine?" Brett asked, startled.

After sending Bai Xiaoou away, Chen Mo has been inquiring about the management of Montana's mineral resources, paying special attention to the gold mine.While working on tax issues...

This made him discover a very interesting rule, so he decided to cash out the gold as soon as possible.

"A stream full of gold is in the pasture." Chen Mo grabbed Bright's shoulder: "Come out with me."

"Where?"

"To Lewistown, Bureau of Mineral Resources."

Sitting on Chen Mo's pickup truck, Brett handed Chen Mo a cigarette: "Could it be that you really discovered a gold mine?"

"It's not a gold mine, it's a stream that contains a lot of gold dust." Chen Mo picked up the bag on the back seat with his backhand, and opened it... Two pieces of gold weighing more than one kilogram almost blinded Brett's dog's eyes.

"Gold? Are you sure it's gold..."

"Of course, [-]% gold. I need a mineral exploration and mining license now."

"No... our ranch has a mineral exploration and mining license, and there are more than one." Bright took out a gold bar and took a bite: "There are three exploration and mining licenses, namely the Lake Ranch, the Curry Ranch and the Agrot Ranch All of them are now automatically assigned to the Snow Mountain Ranch and merged into one. These pastures are rich in gravel resources..."

"Can a license to mine gravel mine gold?"

"Oh my God...it really is gold." Brett still wanted to complain about Chen Mo, and after seeing the tooth marks left on the gold bars, he showed a childlike innocent smile: "Did you not count the assets of the ranch when you bought it?" ? Those three exploration and mining licenses can also be counted as the intangible assets of the original ranch."

"Mineral resources are divided into open-pit resources and underground resources. If it is open-pit small-scale mining, you only need to report to the Bureau of Mineral Resources, and we can work directly without waiting for their reply. You don't even need to report to them, wait for them I will come here after I know... As long as it is not a large-scale mine, there is basically no need for special reporting. Is that gold mine big?"

"There is a lot of gold in Montana, in the rivers and streams. Some rivers are too muddy, the gravel needs to be cleaned, and the gold is a by-product of the gravel resource..." There is gold in the river gravel, but very little, if High-quality grit is not required and is usually not intentionally washed.

"A Jinsha River is less than one kilometer long and two or three meters wide. I don't know where the gold comes from..." Chen Mo pretended to show a puzzled expression: "I really don't need to report it?"

"Probably, it doesn't seem to be necessary. But when paying taxes, if there is a large amount of money, you have to explain the source of the money." Bright weighed the weight of the two gold bars: "How much do these two gold bars weigh?"

"2411 grams."

"What is the price of gold today?"

"I don't know... Our ranch has to be connected to the Internet, otherwise it will be troublesome to do anything."

"That would require digging out a lot of gold. Every penny of the ranch's current money is useful."

The two talked and laughed and headed to Lewistown, asked a lawyer to fill out a gold prospecting report form, then went to the Mineral Resources Management Department and submitted it.

The Ministry of Mineral Resources Management and the county government are in one place, with a few small offices and few people.The work efficiency here is quite fast, getting the stamped permission within ten minutes...

Panning for gold is different from mining gold.

Gold panning is panning for gold nuggets or gold sand from the sand at the bottom of the river.To mine gold...you have to have a gold mine first.

The lobby receptionist of Wells Fargo Bank recognized Chen Mo and led them directly to the VIP reception room.

"Are you going to apply for a loan again?" Cohen came in with two cups of coffee and made an American joke, which was not funny at all.

Chen Mo took the cup, looked at the secretary who came with Cohen, and the secretary pushed out the VIP room knowingly, and then Chen Mo snapped his fingers...

Bright smiled and slapped the 'Certificate of River Sand Mining and Gold Panning License' on the table...

"Watt?" Cohen took it over and took a look, capitalized in a daze.

Chen Mo picked up the bag and opened it. Bright beside him said, "My greatest boss found gold in the stream of the ranch. This is his harvest in less than a week..."

"Does your bank accept gold?" Chen Mo asked.

"Of course... But the Lewis branch does not have the business of recycling gold." Cohen picked up two gold bars, and then looked at the things wrapped in foam in the bag...

"In addition to gold, I also found 13 natural gold nuggets." Chen Mo opened one. They were all small gold nuggets mixed with rocks, with different qualities, all weighing less than 300 grams.

The previous good gold nuggets were all sold.

Only then did Cohen pay attention: "Is it a big gold mine?"

"If there is a big gold mine, our bank can continue to provide you with funds to help you establish a gold mining company."

"It's a creek. The gold is on the surface of the creek... I tried to dig deep, and there is no gold below half a meter of the creek. I also checked the surrounding miles and found no gold deposits... I don't know where the gold comes from Yes, puzzling."

"It should be a river of gold sand. If so, it would be a pity. How much gold do you expect to be in the creek?"

"More than 1 ton. I just dug a couple of times casually, and look, the total weight of these two gold bars is more than 2000 grams."

Cohen looked disbelieving: "The open-pit creek gold mine has more than 1 ton of gold, you didn't lie to me."

"How could I lie to you. I can count on buying gold to your bank..." Chen Mo made a helpless expression: "By the way, I don't want the news of the discovery of gold in Xueshan Ranch to leak out. Can you sign a contract with the bank?" I have brought the confidentiality agreement and the agreement with me."

Cohen took over the non-disclosure agreement, read it one acre and three lines, picked up a pen and signed it directly.

If there is gold, the agreement will take effect naturally, without gold it is a piece of waste paper.

Besides, the bank already has the obligation to keep confidentiality for its customers, let alone a big customer. Seeing that Cohen signed the agreement, Chen Mo said, "How much is your bank going to bid? If it's cheaper, I won't sell it."

"I don't know how to appraise gold. I have to apply for specialized personnel from the headquarters. But now, you only have two gold bars..."

"No problem. Leave the two gold bars in your bank for now. Call me after your people come to appraise them. I will bring more gold." Chen Mo rubbed his chin: "I recently studied the corporate tax law. When it comes to corporate income tax, the taxable income is not sales revenue but total profit.”

"The Jinsha River I found is in the desert next door. I bought it with a loan from your bank. If I use gold to repay the loan from the bank, do I not need to pay corporate income tax..."

Cohen nodded blankly: "It should be. I have to ask a lawyer to study before I can answer you."

(End of this chapter)