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Updated: June 21, 2025
Robert Palmer's diggings on Fillmore Hill are still plainly seen from the stage road on the other side of the cañon of the Middle Yuba; but he who has the hardihood to cross the cañon will find the mine worked out, the water-ditch dry, and the old man's house pulled down. The basement of the house still affords shelter to adventurers who come to dig for Palmer's hidden treasure.
In a ditch by the roadside, and swift as a mill-race, flowed a stream of clear cold water, brought for miles from reservoirs up in the mountains. Even Charley Chu, now that he was leaving the gold fields forever, regarded the water-ditch with affection. It brought life sparkling, abundant life to these arid hill-tops. Years ago, Charley Chu and numerous other Chinamen had dug this very ditch.
When on a shooting trip far up the River Han I saw a large buffalo with four boys on his back, grazing by the side of a water-ditch, which lay between him and a steep bank some ten feet high. The grass being very soft, my close approach was unobserved, until a hare getting up I fired off my gun.
I followed the water-ditch around every projection of the mountain, still ascending higher amid the same wild scenery, till at length I reached the Oderteich, a great dam, in a kind of valley formed by some mountain peaks on the side of the Brocken. It has a breastwork of granite, very firm, and furnishes a continual supply of water for the works.
Keeler, when camels were introduced here in the gold fields?" "No, that was before my time." "It was back in fifty-six, before the water-ditch companies had fairly got started. It was as dry as Sahara on these mountains then, and it is no wonder somebody thought of camels." "Well, when you think of our ostrich farms, camels don't seem out of place in California. Did you ever think, Mr.
Had she the courage to make difficulties to put a water-ditch across his path? It was close on midnight when Letty at last raised her little chin from the hands that held it and rang the bell that communicated with her maid's room, but cautiously, so as not to disturb the rest of the sleeping house. "If Grier is asleep, she must wake up, that's all!"
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