While exploring the lower portion of the Merced Cañon I found a lonely miner seeking his fortune in a quartz vein on a wild mountain-side planted with this singular tree.

The same evening I met more miners on their way out, and the next day met three boats, each containing four men.

It is possible that this young ram, which was in the Sunlight Mining District, had seen many miners, and that they had not disturbed him, and that so he had lost his fear of man.

and called a young miner to him for a song.

It brought into them so many miners that in 1870 the population of these four territories amounted to 59,000.

Who killed the Centralia miners?

I once knew a miner in Arizona who found a rich gold-vein through a rat bringing him a piece of ore in exchange for a bit of bacon.

I told him the present mining regulations suited us very well, and after he had talked with me a little he went inside and whispered to some of the silent members that the miners wanted no change, for he had just consulted a miner to that effect.

"Nay, master," cried a miner who had fallen in love with him, "drive thy pick at t' coal.

In those early days of California mine digging the miners were generally a very rough class of men.

The engineers of the mines, however, and some of their pupils, who, on the first alarm, had hastened to the spot, still remained there, continuing their indefatigable endeavors to discover the miners who were missing.

She dispatched some miners to seize that hellish villain, and she went down the mine to save her father.

They could keep house, cook some dainty dishes, wash clothes, sew, dance, and sing,moreover, they were expert at cards, and divested many a miner of his week's wages over a game of monte.

Zip gently eased the miner into a chair, then turned another chair around and sat in it, folding his arms over its back and facing George.

"Early days," echoed the miner, "well, I guess I did.

One of the bishops in Alaska, who was very fond of that mode of travel, encountered a miner coming out with his dog-team, and stopped to ask him what kind of a road he had come over.

I have asked old and experienced miners at Dawson City who mined through California in Bonanza days, and some who mined in Australia, what they thought of the Klondyke region, and their reply has invariably been, "The world never saw so vast and rich a find of gold as we are working now.

Then farmers and manufacturers followed the gold-hunters; they tilled the soil to feed the miners.

"That's just what I supposed," grunted the old gold miner.

She proved to be the brig Cambria, Captain Cook, master, bound to Vera Cruz, having twenty Cornish miners, and some agents of the Mining Company on board.

In this way he waxed angry; but, nevertheless, he condescended to recommend a man to them, when Caldigate declared that they would like to hire some practical miner to accompany them.

we cry, when man's best aid seems as a rope too short to help, yet long enough to mock imprisoned miners in their living tomb.

Even as the miner's body passed on top, the stranger crooked in his right arm to fire; and even in that instant the miner, with a quick thrust of elbow, struck his wrist.

We could occupy many pages with the interesting details of Sir Humphry Davy's travels in different parts of Europe for scientific purposes, particularly to investigate the causes of volcanic phenomena, to instruct the miners of the coal districts in the application of his safety-lamp, and to examine the state of the Herculaneum manuscripts and to illustrate the remains of the chemical arts of the ancients.

At Seghill and at Bedlington I have slept in their cottages and have been welcomed to their tables, and I remember one evening at Seghill, after a lecture, that my host invited about a dozen miners to supper to meet me; the talk ran on politics, and I soon found that my companions knew more of English politics and had a far shrewder notion of political methods than I had found among the ordinary "diners-out" in "society".