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teams leave here for all the above named hills, whence it is carried to any claim
towns and mining camps in this vicinity. | below it. The long, high and nar-
Lirr.z Yorx—a mining town, three |row flume, called a “telegraph,” car-
miles northwest of Dutch Flat, contains | ries the water from the ditch, as
about 500 inhabitants. | nearly level as possible, over the ciaim
You Brr—is six miles from Little York, | to be worked. To the “telegraph” is at-
also a mining town, about the same size. | tached a hose with an iron pipe, or nozzle,
Rep Dog—seven and a-half miles from | through which the water rushes with great
You Bet, is still another small mining town. | velocity. When directed against a gravel
These towns are situated on what is| bank, it cuts and tears it down, washing
called the Blue Lode, the best large placer | the dirt thoroughly, at arate astonishing
mining disirictin the State. The traveler | to those unacquainted with hydraulic min-
will see the evidences of the vast labor | ing. (See accompanying illustration.) The
performed here, while standing on the | water carries rocks, dirt and sand through
platform of the cars at Alta, Dutch Flator the tail race, and into the long flumes,
Gold Run stations. The Blue Lode ex-/| where the riffles for collecting the gold are
tends from below Gold Run, through the | placed. Miles and miles of the filumes
length of Nevada, on, into and through | have been built, at an enormous expense,
a portion of Sierracounty. It is supposed | to save the gold carried away in the tail-
to be the bed of some ancient river, which | ings.
‘was much larger thar any of the existin Around Little York and You Bet, the
mountain streams. The course of this old | lode is mixed too much with cement to |
river was nearly at right angles with that | mine in this manner with profit, hence
followed by the Yuba and other streams, | mills have been erected where the cement
which run across it. The channelis from | is worked in the same manner as quartz
one to five miles wide in places—at least | rock—crushed and then amalgamated.
the gravel hills, which are supposed to| Gold Ruam—is2.13 miles beyond Dutch
cover the bed, extend for that distance | Flat, and is a small mining town, contain-
across the range. Many of these gravel |ing about 200 inhabitants. Around it you
hills are from 100 to 500

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pine trees from two to

Petrified trees, oak and
pine, and other woods,
such as manzanita,
mountain mahogany
and maple, are found
in the bed of the river,
showing that the same
varieties of wood existed
when this great change
was wrought, as are
now growing on the
adjacent hill-sides.
Hypraviic Mixinc—
The traveler will ob-.
serve by the road-side,
mining ditches and
flumes, carrying a large
and rapid stream of
water. These ditches
extend for many miles,
tapping the rivers near
their sources—near the
regions of perpetual
snow. By this means
the water is conveyed
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HYDRAULIC MINING,