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Adventures in Scenery 



agines that there is a "pot of gold" at the center of the earth 

 who is going to prove that it is not so? 



Photo by }. S. Dilter, U. S. Geol. Survey 

 FIG. 91. Hydraulic mine at Cherokee, Butte County. 



Secondary Gold Sought in the 

 Days of '49 



In the mad rush for gold in '49 and years following it was 

 secondary or placer gold that first attracted attention. Later 

 as the placer deposits were "washed up" search was made for the 

 source from which the gold came. Secondary gold came from 



