This is so familiar that if our should fall into it, he would be crushed to a jelly, and if caught near the bottom of the pipe would be drawn into it by the suction. Such accident happened not long ago. A miner fell and was sucked into the hole. Every bit of blood was taken out of his body, and his arms and legs were torn off. At one of the sluice boxes, we visited the water had been turned off for the moment to repair some part of the machinery, and Mr. Lindenberger and I walked up through the bottom of the box and examined the mavel and Robt had in the riffles. At the extreme top of the box, the first solid was caught by small blocks of wood set into the sluiceeway, just below this I could see specks and bits of free gold, while a little further down the littles had been embedded in quicksilver. This quick silver was already loaded with gold. It had lost its volatile quality, and was like a heavy sand or hard putty. I look up some of it and squeezed it in my hand. I could not see any gold. 