year he settled with his Ute wife a few miles north, and made a living working a nearby gold placer. Each year he performed the assessment work required to maintain his lode claims, convinced that his mystery mineral must be of value. In 1918 Senter received US$40,000 for his mining claims and "settled into a comfortable retirement in Denver."

Although Senter finally found a chemist who identified the gray mineral as containing molybdenum