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(Fig. 6), from which he passes them into the ordinary 

 gold-washing pan (Fig. 7). .By washing in the pan, with 

 skilful manipulation, he is able to reject the sand and 

 gravel and save the gold. Where men are just placer- 

 working on their own account, they will generally put up 



Fig. 6. — The Scoop. 



by the side of the stream some rocker arrangement, or 

 some contrivances such as very small wooden flumes 

 with strips nailed across the bottom to arrest the gold : 

 they lead the water from the stream into this arrange- 

 ment, and feed in the gravel. 



Fig. 7. — Gold-Washing Pan. 



The Camp at Coff'ee Creek is just at the fork where 

 another stream, the Union Creek, joins the main stream ; 

 and a few hundred yards up Union Creek, two French- 

 men took up a location about 25 years ago. They built 

 themselves a log hut of the rudest description, and here 

 they lived ever since, all the year round — their hut 

 buried in the winter under 20 feet of snow — just working 

 along the edge of the stream as far down as the water 

 would allow them ;. and many thousand dollars worth of 

 gold they got out. A few days before I came to the 

 Camp one of them died, and all the miners from the 

 Camp turned out and gave him quite a distinguished 



