Under the blue sky, the prairie is like a chessboard, and the haystacks are like the chess pieces dropped by the starry sky giant.
The crops in the fields are being harvested one after another. The growth of the pasture has slowed down, and large-scale harvesting has begun.
Forage grasses such as alfalfa and ryegrass are perennial grasses and can be harvested for many years after sowing once.
Several fertilizer spreaders are running all over the pasture, and trucks of fermented manure are spread on the grasslands and farmland.
Chen Mo bought an excavator from an unknown number of hands and picked a creek near the snow-capped mountains to start gold mining in an open and honest manner...
Then I picked up a sand washing machine from the pasture and simply modified it into a mineral washing machine.
There is no gold in the creek, but Chen Mo has it... and there are many more.
The eighth 1,000-head cowshed was built.
Chen Mo was idle and visited the cattle breeding base again. The cowshed here is very simple, with prefabricated fireproof wooden structure walls and ventilation holes on the walls. The roof of the cowshed is a steel structure with large colored steel tiles.
Simple, but very neat.
There are five large cowsheds in the breeding base, and more than 3,000 cows have been accommodated. Almost all the adult cows that can be sold have been bought back.
Brett takes the veterinarian and breeder to check the health of the cow...
"Is work going well?" Chen Mo walked over.
"It's okay." Bright made an OK gesture, touched his head and continued: "There is not much money left in the ranch account. I only paid a down payment for the breeding cattle, and the remaining balance will be settled within a year."
“What’s the funding gap?”
"About 15 million. If you don't owe the bank too much money, I won't be in a hurry... A great ranch should have its own long-term plan. Even if it can't breed new cattle breeds, like the Angus cattle we raise
With Limousin cattle, we should also try our best to select breeding cattle and cows with excellent genes and breed them from generation to generation... This will form a virtuous cycle." Bright had a headache.
The current snow mountain pasture is very dangerous and cannot withstand any storms and twists and turns. Even if the cattle have influenza disease, the pasture may go bankrupt.
Therefore, the five large cowsheds in the breeding base are somewhat special. One large cowshed is divided into 25 small cowsheds, and each small cowshed only raises 40 cows.
The big cowshed is a long row, connected in a row. The building length of the big cowshed is 1300 meters. There is also a large area of outdoor activity space on the left and right sides of each small cowshed...
Keep them at large intervals just in case.
The debt of Snow Mountain Ranch is too great to allow even the slightest mistake.
"Don't be too anxious about the ranch. Take it slowly and step by step. I should be able to pay off the bank loan before the tax filing season ends." Chen Mo smiled.
"Have you found a gold mine?" Bright was startled and said.
After sending Bai Xiaoou away, Chen Mo has been inquiring about the management of mineral resources in Montana, paying special attention to gold mines. At the same time, he is studying tax issues...
This made him discover a very interesting rule, so he decided to cash out the gold as soon as possible.
"A creek covered with gold is in the pasture." Chen Mo grabbed Bright's shoulders and said, "Come out with me."
"Where to go?"
"To Lewistown, Bureau of Mineral Resources."
Sitting in Chen Mo's pickup truck, Bright handed Chen Mo a cigarette: "Isn't it true that a gold mine was discovered?"
"It's not a gold mine, it's a creek containing a lot of gold sand." Chen Mo picked up the bag in the back seat and opened it... Two pieces of gold weighing more than one kilogram almost blinded Brett.
"Gold? Are you sure it's gold..."
"Of course, it's 100% gold. I now need a mineral exploration and mining license."
"No need... our ranch has more than one mineral exploration and mining license." Bright took out the gold bar and took a bite: "There are three exploration and mining licenses, namely Lake Ranch, Curry Ranch and Agolot Ranch.
All of them are now automatically attributed to the Snow Mountain Pasture and merged into one. These pastures have rich gravel resources..."
“A license to mine gravel can mine gold?”
"Oh my god...it's indeed gold." Brett also wanted to complain about Chen Mo, but after seeing the teeth marks left on the gold bars, he showed an innocent smile like a child: "Didn't you even count the assets of the ranch when you purchased it?
?Those three exploration and mining licenses can also be counted as 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, we only need to report it to the Mineral Resources Bureau, and we can start working directly without waiting for their reply. We don't even need to report it to them, we will wait for them
I will come here after knowing it... As long as it is not a large-scale mineral, there is basically no need to report it. Is that gold mine big? "
"There is a lot of gold in Montana, in rivers and creeks. Some rivers have too much mud, and the gravel needs to be cleaned. Gold is a by-product of gravel resources..." There is gold in the gravel of rivers, but it is very little. If
High-quality grit is not required and is usually not intentionally washed.
"A Jinsha River is less than a 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: "Really don't need to report it?"
"Probably, it doesn't seem necessary. But when paying taxes, if there is a large amount of money, the source of the money must be stated." 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 needs to be connected to the Internet, otherwise it will be troublesome to do anything."
"Then you have to dig out a lot of gold. Every penny of the ranch's money now has a use."
The two of them chatted and laughed and headed to Lewistown, where they found 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 County Government are located in one place, with several small offices and not many people. The work efficiency here is quite fast. I got the stamped permit in ten minutes...
Gold panning is different from gold mining.
Gold panning is the process of finding gold nuggets or gold sand from the sand at the bottom of a river. To mine gold... you must first have a gold mine.
The lobby receptionist from Wells Fargo Bank knew Chen Mo and led them directly to the VIP reception room.
"Are you ready 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 and looked at the secretary who came with Cohen. The secretary understood and pushed out of the VIP room. Chen Mo then snapped his fingers...
Brett smiled and slapped the 'River Sand Mining and Gold Mining Permit' on the table...
"Watt?" Cohen took it and looked at it, looking confused in capital letters.
Chen Mo picked up the bag and opened it. Brett next to him said: "My greatest boss discovered gold in the creek on the ranch. This is his harvest in less than a week..."
"Does your bank accept gold?" Chen Mo said.
"Of course...but the Lewis branch does not have gold recycling business." Cohen picked up two gold bars and looked at the foam-wrapped items 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, of varying quality, and weighing less than 300 grams.
All the good gold nuggets before were sold.
Only then did Cohen pay attention: "Is it a big gold mine?"
"If you have 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, but there was no gold below half a meter of the creek. I also checked for miles around and couldn't find any gold deposits... I don't know where the gold came from.
It’s puzzling.”
"It should be a river of gold sand. In that case, it would be a shame. How much gold do you expect to be in the creek?"
"More than 1 ton. I just dug a few times and saw that the total weight of these two gold bars is more than 2,000 grams."
Cohen looked incredulous: "The open-pit creek gold mine contains more than 1 ton of gold. You didn't lie to me."
"How could I lie to you? I can expect to buy the 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 I sign a contract with the bank?"
I brought the confidentiality agreement and the agreement with me."
Cohen took the confidentiality agreement and read it one by one, picked up the pen and signed it directly.
If there is gold, the agreement will naturally take effect. Without gold, it is just a piece of waste paper.
Besides, banks have the obligation to keep customers confidential, let alone big customers. Seeing Cohen sign the agreement, Chen Mo said: "How much is your bank prepared to offer? If it's cheaper, I won't sell it."
"I don't know how to identify 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, and give me a call after your people come to identify them. I will bring more gold." Chen Mo touched 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 profits."
"The Jinsha River I discovered is in the desert next door. I bought it after taking a loan from your bank. If I use gold to repay the loan from the bank, will I not need to pay corporate income tax..."
Cohen nodded blankly: "Probably. I have to let the lawyer study it before I can reply to you."