Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast
CHAPTER XXVII.
_San Francisco to Virginia City._
Off for Sacramento.--Fellow-passengers.--Children.--Sacramento River.--Sacramento City.--Thence by Railroad.--Country generally.--The Wheat Fields and Live Oaks.--The Foot-hills.--Placer Mining.--Water-ditches.--Hydraulic Mining.--Changes in Climate.--Central Pacific Railroad.--Cisco.--The Sierra Nevadas.--Deep Snows still, May 17th.--Snow-sheds.--John Chinaman again.--Donner Lake.--The Truckee.--The Geiger Grade.--Sunday in Nevada.--A Noted Revivalist.--Virginia City.--The Comstock Lode.--Silver Mining generally.--The Sutro Tunnel.--Mining a Risky Business. 425-436