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CHAPTER IX. 
SACRAMENTO — STOCKTON — CALIFORNIAN GROUND-SQUIRRELS — 
GRASS VALLEY—STAGE TRAVELLING—-HYDRAULIC WASHINGS— 
NEVADA—MARYSVILLE—UP THE SACRAMENTO RIVER TO RED 
BLUFFS—A DANGEROUS BATH. 
March \0th.—At San Francisco this morning a 
friend took me to see the ‘What Cheer House,’ 
a very large hotel, supported by gold-miners, 
where they make up six hundred beds, every 
lodger having a small room to himself, with 
marble wash-stand, looking-glass, and dressing- 
table. Each story shuts off from the next by 
fireproof doors, and the water is forced to the 
top of the house, where there are hoses, fire- 
buckets, and axes enough to fit out a fire-brigade. 
A large steami-engine is the cook’s assistant, doing 
everything that hands usually do; it kneads the 
bread, rolls the dough, drives the roasting gear, 
grinds coffee, peals apples and potatoes, beats the 
egos (twelve hundred dozen a week), washes, 
irons, dries, and mangles the clothes ; heats the 
water for the bathing-houses, which are perfect 
