Soon, Bowie learned that besides the McKinley Family hiring over 200 mine guards through the black market, the most recent development was a 10,000 us dollar bounty on Henry in the black market.
Bowie was very clear about Henry's intelligence—after all, it was an unprecedentedly high bounty for an individual.
He was also amazed by Henry's recent achievements.
Especially how Henry killed 20 bandits while engaging in a fair duel with Barrett.
As someone from the same era as Barrett, Bowie understood Barrett's formidable reputation very well; he had even witnessed two of Barrett's duels.
Therefore, when he received the intel about Henry's duel, he couldn't believe it.
But the written word didn't lie; the gunfighter who had dominated an era had passed away just like that.
It was even just an add-on to Henry's illustrious achievements.
Henry's evaluation in the Pinkerton Detective Agency's files was: an unprecedented super gunfighter, extremely dangerous!
However, no matter how powerful Henry was, he couldn't have destroyed the black market headquarters in such a short time, so there must have been at least another powerful armed force involved.
'Could it be the Sinclair Family's private army?
But there haven't been any reports of them mobilizing on a large scale recently.'
Bowie fell into deep thought again.
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John, the Governor of Colorado, was also stirred by the incident of the McKinley Family being trapped halfway up the mountain.
He could ignore other things, but for such a major explosion, he had to understand the full story.
Thus, the task was passed down, falling to Kilian, the Sheriff of Danfu City.
Based on the same reasons as Bowie, Kilian also suspected a connection between the destruction of the black market headquarters and McKinley Manor.
However, Kilian's intelligence channels were not as comprehensive as Bowie's; he didn't even know Henry had arrived in Denver.
But it didn't matter; if he didn't know, he would just ask.
Kilian and the Pinkerton Detective Agency already had many collaborations.
So, soon, Kilian met with Bowie in his office.
Bowie didn't hide anything and expressed his suspicions—he also wanted to use Kilian to probe Henry.
After Kilian left the Pinkerton Detective Agency, his forehead tightened.
He also knew Henry's reputation; Henry's recent achievements were simply too resounding.
Moreover, Fresco Town had recently applied for bounties on six notorious bandits at the Danfu Police Department.
Kilian was well aware of Henry's duel with Barrett and the 10,000 us dollar bounty incident.
The reason he could hold his position as Sheriff of Danfu City for four years and still be fine, besides his formidable skills, was his well-informed nature and his tendency to pick on the weak.
Henry had no direct official relationship with him.
For a powerful individual like Henry, who left no survivors, Kilian would absolutely not provoke him, regardless of whether he was responsible for the black market and McKinley Manor incidents.
If he wasn't, Kilian would be needlessly provoking a powerful enemy.
If he was, so many people had already died, and Kilian didn't think he would be the special one.
Without any evidence, Kilian would not touch Henry's bad luck.
Even if he investigated the truth, Kilian wouldn't receive an extra bonus, so after returning to the police station, he had Thomas, the Dutch-born "Mad Dog" Vice President of the Security Maintenance Association, called over and assigned him the task of investigating the black market and McKinley Manor incidents.
As for Liam, the other Vice President of the Security Maintenance Association, he was out of the question; Irish people don't screw over other Irish people.
Kilian thought to himself.
"Mad Dog" Thomas was extremely displeased.
Liam's men were used to clean up the black market headquarters last night, and he didn't know how much profit they had plundered.
Now, when it came to such a dangerous investigation, it was his turn.
Fuck you! Damn Irishmen!
Thomas spat a thick wad of phlegm at a wild flower by the roadside.
However, although he was angry, he would still investigate seriously; he still needed this identity.
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Henry first sent a telegram to Mayor William at the telegraph office, then leisurely rode his horse around the center of Danfu City.
He had several objectives today: buying clothes, buying fitness equipment, dealing with silver ingots, and scouting the farmers' market.
As it turned out, none of his objectives were well achieved.
Firstly, he wanted to buy several high-end suits, but because of his unusually tall stature for this era, he couldn't find any ready-made ones.
Custom-made suits would take a month, with two fittings for semi-finished products in between.
Henry could only temporarily give up and wait until he reached the metropolis of New York to see if he could find suitable suits.
There were also no specialized stores for fitness equipment; Danfu didn't have a large number of millionaires settling there yet, and it wasn't popular for ordinary middle-class people to play with such things.
Henry could only postpone this until he arrived in New York.
Regarding silver ingots, although the United States was on a bimetallic standard at the time, recognizing both gold and silver as the basis for the us dollar—a double gold standard—Congress had passed a law as early as 1873, directly acknowledging the cessation of official silver coinage.
The struggle between silver and gold for monetary support was extremely fierce, directly becoming an issue in the current presidential election, and the currency issue directly evolved into a parliamentary issue.
In any case, the Danfu branch of the Federal Mint did not purchase silver at present.
Now, in addition to being sold to manufacturers to be made into jewelry and utensils, silver was also sold to various factories for industrial uses, such as being an essential element in photographic emulsions for light-sensitive film.
Silver mine owners had their own cooperating merchants.
Henry saw two shops that bought silver ingots; after talking to the person in charge of one of them, he found that regular transactions involved tax issues.
If it was a cash transaction, it would be considered something of unknown origin.
The person in charge, with an expression that said 'I understand,' gave Henry an address in the south of the city and told him to go there to discuss it.
The silver ingots in Henry's storage space bore the McKinley Family's mark, and he didn't plan to trade these 60,000 ounces of silver ingots in Danfu; he decided to wait until New York for the copper ingots as well, to see if there were suitable channels.
After all, in the place of origin, if it wasn't sold at the current standard silver price, the goods certainly wouldn't fetch a good price.
If worst came to worst, he would go to Pittsburgh to find Richard to handle it for him—he had to give him a chance to repay his life-saving kindness, right?
In any case, Henry knew that silver would continue to depreciate for the next few decades, so he had to sell it as soon as possible.
As for the farmers' market, Henry just briefly looked around and found that it indeed appeared to be thriving, and various agricultural products were controlled by their respective associations.
Finally, Henry went to Chinatown, which was only a few hundred meters from the Union Station under construction, to take a look.
Chinatown here was located halfway up a mountain peak over five hundred meters high, mostly consisting of two-story wooden houses.
On both sides of the road, one could see Chinese people with queues, yellow faces, and bony frames everywhere; some were even holding opium pipes and smoking opium.
The sanitary conditions were also very poor, much dirtier and messier than the environment on the streets outside, and the smell was indescribable.
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