IXDEX OF SECTIONS. 



XV 



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166. Horse-breaking 224 



167. Blood-horses 228 



168. Mules 229 



169. Camels 229 



170. Sheep 229 



171. Swme 233 



172. Poultry 233 



173. Bees [[[[ 235 



174. Silkworms 237 



Mining — Chap. YIII. 



175. Chief Industry 238 



176. Metals obtained 238 



177. Gold Mines 238 



178. Placer Mines 241 



179. The Sluice .' 243 



180. Amalgamation 246 



181. Cleaning up 249 



182. Riffle-bars *.'.'. 250 



183. Double-Sluices 252 



184. Eock-Sluices 252 



185. Hydrauhc Mining 253 



186. Blasting 256 



187. TaU-Sluice 256 



188. Tunnel-Sluice 257 



189. Ground-Sluice 257 



190. Long-Tom 257 



191. Cradle .' 258 



192. Pan 262 



193. Dry "Washing 264 



194. Dry Digging 264 



195. Puddling Box '. . 265 



196. Quicksilver Machine 265 



197. Tunnel Alining 266 



198. Shafts 267 



199. River Mining 268 



200. Beach Mining 269 



201. Mining-Ditches 270 



202. Prospecting 271 



203. Quartz Mining 272 



204. Distribution of Gold in 



Quartz 273 



205. Prospecting Quartz Rock. . . 275 



206. The Divining Rod 277 



207. Quarrying Quartz 277 



208. Arastra 278 



209. Chilean MiU 280 



210. Stamps 280 



211. Separation 281 



212. Sulphurets 284 



213. Chief Quartz Mills '..*.' 284 



214 Silver Mining 285 



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21 o. Quicksilver Mining 286 



216. Platinum 287 



217. Del Xorte and Klamath .. . 288 



218. Siskiyou 289 



2 1 9. Trinity and Shasta 289 



220. Plumas and Sierra 290 



221. Yuba and Butte 294 



222. Xevada and Placer 295 



223. El Dorado and Amador 296 



224. Calaveras and Tuolumne. . . 298 



225. Mono and Mariposa 301 



226. Fresno, etc 303 



Other B ranches of Ixdustey — 

 Chap. IX. 



227. High Wages 304 



228. Lumbering 305 



229. Fishing 313 



230. Hunting ...\ 317 



231. House-building 320 



232. Furniture, etc 323 



Commerce — Chap. X. 



233. General Advantages 326 



234. Tributary Population 327 



235. Imports 330 



236. Exports " . ' 330 



237. Shipping 332 



238. Unsteadiness of Business . , 333 



239. Insolvencies 334 



240. Interest of Money 335 



241. Speculation in Land 337 



242. No Paper Money 337 



243. Opportunities for Invest- 



ment 338 



244. Assurance 347 



Constitution and Laws — Chap. XL 



245. Outlines of Constitution. .. . 349 



246. Inferiority of Colored Per- 



sons 350 



247. Law Favorable to Debtors . . 350 



248. Tenure of Land 352 



249. Ownership of Minerals. . , . 354 



250. Titles of Mining-Claims 354 



251. Marriage 353 



Society — Chap. XII. 



252. Population 359 



