CHAPTER XXXV

. A New Travelling Companion—All Full and No

Accommodations—How Captain Nye found Room—and Caused Our Leaving to be Lamented—The Uses of Tunnelling—A Notable Example—We Go into the “Claim” Business and Fail—At the Bottom

## CHAPTER XXXVI . A Quartz Mill—Amalgamation—“Screening Tailings”—First

Quartz Mill in Nevada—Fire Assay—A Smart Assayer—I stake for an advance

## CHAPTER XXXVII . The Whiteman Cement Mine—Story of its Discovery—A Secret

Expedition—A Nocturnal Adventure—A Distressing Position—A Failure and a Week’s Holiday

## CHAPTER XXXVIII . Mono Lake—Shampooing Made Easy—Thoughtless Act of Our

Dog and the Results—Lye Water—Curiosities of the Lake—Free Hotel—Some Funny Incidents a Little Overdrawn

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