Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California: With Description of the Use and Construction of Ditches, Flumes, Wrought-Iron Pipes, and Dams; Flow of Water on Heavy Grades, and Its Applicability, Under High Pressure, to Mining Asia Minor. The mountains and streams of Phrygia and Lydia yielded gold in ancient times, and history has familiarized us with the wonders Of the Pactolus.* from whose famous golden sands Croesus is said to have de rived his wealth. The sands Of Asia Minor long since ceased to yield the precious metal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.