TOPOGRAPHICAL NAMES. 



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Flat. The following is a list of some curious names of mining 

 localities : 



Jim Crow Canon, 

 Red Dog-, 

 Jackass Gulch, 

 Ladies' Canon, 

 Miller's Defeat, 

 Loafer Hill, 

 Rattlesnake Bar, 

 Whisky Bar, 

 Poverty Hill, 

 Greasers' Camp, 

 Christian Flat, 

 Rough and Ready, 

 Ragtown, 

 Sugar-Loaf Hill, 

 Poker Flat, 

 Wild-Cat Bar, 

 Dead Mule Canon, 

 Wild Goose Flat, 

 Brandy Flat, 

 Gridiron Bar, 

 Hen-roost Camp, 

 Lousy Ravine, 

 Lazy Man s Canon, 

 Logtown, 

 Git-up-and-git, 

 Gopher Flat, 

 Bob Ridley Flat, 

 One Eye, 

 Push-coach Hill, 

 Puppy town, 

 Mad Canon, 

 Happy Valley, 

 Hell's Delight, 



Davil's Basin, 

 Dead Wood, 

 Gouge Eye, 

 Puke Ravine, 

 Slap- Jack Bar, 

 Quack Hill, 

 Pepperbox Flat, 

 Nigger Hill, 

 Seventy-six, 

 Piety Hill, 

 Hr> VH Diggings, 

 Brandy Gulch, 

 Liberty Hill, 

 Love-Letter Camp, 

 Paradise, 



Blue Belly Ravine, 

 Sluice Fork, 

 Shinbone Peak, 

 Soven--up Ravine, 

 Loafer's Retreat, 

 Humpback Slide, 

 Swellhead Diggings, 

 Coyote Hill, 

 Poodletown, 

 Yankee Doodle, 

 Horsetown, 

 Petticoat Slide, 

 Chucklehead Diggings, 

 Mount Zion, 

 Barefoot Diggings, 

 Plug-head Gulch, 

 Ground Hogs' Glory, 

 Bogus Thunder, 



Last Chance, 

 Greenhorn Canon, 

 Shanghai Hill, 

 Shirt-tail Canon, 

 Skunk Gulch, 

 Coon Hollow, 

 Poor Man's Creek, 

 Humbug Canon, 

 Bloomer Hill, 

 Grizzly Flat, 

 Rat-trap Slide, 

 Pike Hill, 

 Port Wine, 

 Snow Point, 

 Nary Red, 

 Gas Hill, 

 Ladies' Valley, 

 Graveyard Canon, 

 Gospel Gulch, 

 Chicken-Thief Flat, 

 Hungry Camp, 

 Mud Springs, 

 Skinflint, 

 American Hollow, 

 Gold Hill, 

 Pancake Ravine, 

 Centipede Hollow, 

 Nutcake Camp, 

 Seven-by-nine Valley, 

 Paint-Pot Hill, 

 Gospel Swamp. 



The Legislature in 1864 granted a franchise for the construc- 

 tion of a toll-road from Pokerville to Fiddletown in Amador 

 County. 



Butte County was named from the buttes or high hills on its 

 border. Cache Creek was so called because some trappers 

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