14 of great beauty variety in wh the river has swept curled shifting from side to side retreating returning as determined
by flood the gradual erosion removal of drift beds formerly laid down A few miles above here at the village of La Grange the
wild river has made some astonishing deposits in its young days through wh it now flows with the manners of stately old age
apparently disclaiming all knowledge of then, but a thousand thousand bowlders gathered from many a moraine swashed ground
in potholes record their history tell of white floods of a grandeur not easily conceived Noble sections nearly a hundred feet
deep are laid bare like a book by the mining company. Water is drawn from the river 00691 15 several miles above conducted
by ditches pipes made to play upon these deposits for the gold they contain Thus the Tuolumne of today is compelled to unravel
lay bare its own ancient history wh is a thousandfold more important than the handfuls of gold sand it chances to contain
I mean to return to these magnificent records in a week or two turn the gold disease of the La Grangers to account in learning
the grand old story of the Sierra flood period. If these hundred laborious hydraulicers were under my employ they could not
do me better service all along the Sierra flank thousands of strong arms are working for me incited by the small golden bai
illegible Who shall say that I am not rich? Up through the purple foothills to Coulterville where I met many hearty shaggy
mountaineers glad to see me. Strange to say the Overland studies have been read discussed in the most unlikely places