Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 293
he constructionof the ditch, which they then own and from which■they lease water to the miners. You may see theselittle canals curving under the brows and along theretreating slopes of the hills, seeking in and out ofall the windings a slant by which the water willsteadily run downward. Now and… … the naturallystrange scen-ery, in theirrough outlines,as they strag-gle, all mossy,rude and drip-ping, over andaround great■bronze - browncliffs and alongthe green, vel-vety hill-sides.Now, let us•see how theditch is madeuseful. Whenit is completed, as many gates are made as thereare mines to be…
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