. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and c
. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona . car-ried the water from the ditch, asnearly level as possible, over the claimto be worked. To the * telegraph is at-tached a hose with an iron pipe, or nozzle,through which the water rushes with greatvelocity. When directed against a gravelbank, it cuts and tears it down, washingthe dirt thoroughly, at a rate astonishingto those unacquainted with hydraulic min-ing. (See accompanying illustration.) Thewater carries rocks, dirt and sand throughthe tail race, and into the long flumes,where the riffles for collecting the gold areplaced. Miles and miles of the flumeshave been built, at an enormous expense,to save the gold carried away in the tail-ings. Around Little York and You Bet, thelode is mixed too much with cement tomine in this manner with profit, hencemills have been erected where the cementis worked in the same manner as quartzrock—crushed and then amalgamated. Gold Run-^is miles beyond DutchFlat, and is a small mining town, contain-ing about 200 inhabitants. Around it you. HYDRAULIC MINING. 176 CROFUTT S NEW OVERLAND TOURIST can see, on every hand, the miners flume beds, which carry off thewashed gravel and retain the gold; longand large ditches full of ice-cold water,which, direct
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