CHAPTER XIII.

EARLY MINING.

“Bring out your Injunction”—Testing Ores for Gold—Testing Ores for Silver—A Fire Assay—Valuable Donkeys—The Washoe “Canary” 109

MIGRATION ON A LARGE SCALE.

The Migratory Instinct—The Piute War—Battle of Pyramid Lake—Second Expedition—The Survivors of the Slaughter 116

TROUBLE WITH THE INDIANS.

An Unlucky Dutchman—Skirmishing—An Appeal to Indian Justice—After the Scalps—Old Gus, and his “Injun.” 121

STATE OF SOCIETY.

Organization Begun—In Search of the Gold—Fighting Sam Brown—The Knife and the Pistol—Pugnacious Periods. 128