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WHITE-FACED DICK. A STORY OF PINE-TREE GULCH.
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How Pine-tree Gulch1 got its name no one knew, for in the early days every ravine and hillside was thickly covered with pines. It may be that a tree of exceptional size caught the eye of the first explorer, that he camped under it, and named the place in its honor; or, may be, some fallen giant lay in the bottom and hindered the work of the first prospectors2. At any rate, Pine-tree Gulch it was, and the name was as good as any other. The pine-trees were gone now. Cut up for firing, or for the erection of huts, or the construction of sluices3, but the hillside was ragged4 with their stumps5.
The principal camp was at the mouth of the Gulch, where the little stream, which scarce [Pg 198]afforded water sufficient for the cradles in the dry season, but which was a rushing torrent7 in winter, joined the Yuba. The best ground was at the junction8 of the streams, and lay, indeed, in the Yuba valley rather than in the Gulch. At first most gold had been found higher up, but there was here comparatively little depth down to the bed-rock, and as the ground became exhausted9 the miners moved down towards the mouth of the Gulch. They were doing well as a whole, how well no one knew, for miners are chary10 of giving information as to what they are making; still, it was certain they were doing well, for the bars were doing a roaring trade, and the store-keepers never refused credit—a proof in itself that the prospects11 were good.
The flat at the mouth of the Gulch was a busy scene, every foot was good paying stuff, for in the
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