. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and ^v;^i n,. nTDEAtlLIC MDTDfG. By this operation, as described in the text, hills of loose materials or of decomposed slates and otherroclis containing gold, are washed down, and the earthy matters are swept away through the sluicesmade either of wooden troughs or by excavating channels in the bed-rock. In these the coarse gold iscaught against the bars placed at intervals across the sluices. This is a purely Califomian method, andhas proved so effectual in collecting the little gold buried in large bodies of earth,
. First century of national existence; the United States as they were and ^v;^i n,. nTDEAtlLIC MDTDfG. By this operation, as described in the text, hills of loose materials or of decomposed slates and otherroclis containing gold, are washed down, and the earthy matters are swept away through the sluicesmade either of wooden troughs or by excavating channels in the bed-rock. In these the coarse gold iscaught against the bars placed at intervals across the sluices. This is a purely Califomian method, andhas proved so effectual in collecting the little gold buried in large bodies of earth, that it is now generallyadopted in other gold regions in which the conditions are favorable for its practice. —s £
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