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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 292

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ever the miner finds itconvenient to work, and does not require a vastamount of water. Lastly, it calls for much lessskill than most other methods. Nevertheless, theday of the cradle is nearly gone by, except where asingle poor man goes off by himself to some retiredspot, and works not so much for… … PANNING-OUT. above the other, the coarsest sieves being upper-most. There is no foot-board, and in its placeprojects a long spout, out of which the waste waterruns, and where there are cleats or riffles likethose I shall explain further on when I speak ofthe sluice. Into this cradle one man shovels…

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