Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 199
farther that torrent bed gives placeto a timber flume; and the next moment thatflume, instead of keeping on the sharply slopingfloor of the canon, rises on trestles, holding analmost level position. The trestles increase inheight as the ground beneath them slopes down-ward, and cross a deep gulch,… … THE 20INCH PIPE ABOVE THE HOUSE BRINGS DOWN NEARLY15,000 HORSE-POWER, mountain, then crossing other gulches, and soonappearing on the summit of a peak, eight hun-dred feet above where we are standing. Below,at the foot of that peak, is a small, plain, stonebuilding, and, wriggling down from the…
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