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It was built to carry rafts of logs through from time to time a chute, planked in on either side, with the entrance formed by the cutting down of the top of the dam there a few feet. There was no great depth of water in the flume no one seemed to know just how much. It depended on the height of water in the stream. Now the girl, waving to Harvey and Henry Burns, cried shrilly for them to watch.
At last you come to a lofty subterraneous dome, lit from above by a cleft in the mountain; while full before you, in the opposite wall, from a low, black arch, midway up, and inaccessible, the stream, with a hollow ring and a dash, falls in a long, snowy column into a bottomless pool, whence, after many an eddy and whirl, it entered the flume, and away with a rush.
Merkel was the owner of several ranches, Square M, Triangle B and Diamond X, not to mention Diamond X Second, or Flume Valley, of which his son Bud, and the latter's cousins, Norton and Richard Shannon, were the nominal proprietors.
All that she heard was the faint, distant strum of a banjo, and a gay young voice announcing to the rocks and fastnesses of the cañon that his love was like a red, red rose. His love! Melissa walked along the path beside the flume in vague bewilderment. It was his love, then, whose picture she had seen pinned to the canvas of the tent.
"George Kearney!" echoed Christie, for a moment believing the excitement had turned her father's brain. "You know he is not here; he is in San Francisco." "He is here I tell you," said Carr impatiently; "he has been here ever since the high water, trying to save the flume and reservoir." "George here!" Christie could only gasp. "Yes!
Forward and down went Jack, and, though it seemed like an hour while he was being shot out with the water as it spurted from where the flume was raised on a high trestle, it was only a second or two before he was plunged into the pool. As he sank down and down the lad was aware of a splash close beside him, and he dimly thought it must be Nat. And so it proved.
He was not long in reaching the open, and then one glance made all clear. A new pool, large as a little lake, shone in the sunlight, and round it a jostling horned mass of cattle were pressing against a high corral. The flume that fed water to the pool was fenced all the way up to the springs. Jack slowly rode down the ridge with eyes roving under the cedars and up to the wall.
That lower country they call a desert, but that's only because it hasn't any rainfall. We're going to have a lot of water at the end of that flume " They bought the desert land at fifty cents an acre; scraped ditches and checks; planted a model orchard, and went into the real estate business. In time a community grew up.
We met no pedestrians on the road; no anglers were casting for fish in the stream; no boat was anchored on its swift current only far away like a huge worm our field glasses revealed a monstrous flume along the rocky bank. This solved the mystery of this once famous summer resort.
"There's a few places in the Kennebec where the water's too shaller to let the logs float, so we used to build a flume, an' the logs would whiz down like arrers shot from a bow.
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