Even the boardflume had been burned to a level with the glancing sheet of water.
The flume that fed water to the pool was fenced all the way up to the springs.
The giant wooden flume could be faintly discerned, through the smoke of the fire and from the pipes of the men, not twenty feet away from the engines that worked it.
But the dog crawled noiselessly across the ledge to the flume and there he stood with tense nerves.
Do you remember the giant flume we planned to carry off the water of the river that flowed underground; the one into which Nolla and you dropped the torch the day you found the cave?
The mountain storms will soon be sweeping over the peaks, and winter protection must be completed at the Cave and Flume before then; so I think I shall be leaving in a day, or so.
Without further delay, then, Mike threw open the lid in the top of the flume and commanded the trespassers to come forth.
Mike then selected several of his brawniest fighters and very quietly led the way to the opening of the flume where the water-gate was located.
Accompanying the strange muffled sound inside the flumeevery few moments, there came a different sound, as if something sharp was being driven into the wood for a hold.
Had he not been absolutely quiet, the faint sound of something moving inside that flume would have been lost on the outside.
The Flume is one of those rifts in the solid rock caused by some titanic force in ages long since.
A short distance below the Flume are the Georgiana Falls, where the water descends for more than a hundred feet over a sheer precipice.
She leaned against the timbers that supported the flume across the gully, and fanned herself with her hat.
The soft, humid air was sweet with the earthy scents of the canon, and the curled fallen leaves of the live oaks along the flume path were golden-brown with moisture.
Old Withrow had preceded his daughter, stumbling along the flume path, muttering sullenly.
Melissa walked along the path beside the flumein vague bewilderment.
Well, turn some water from the sand-box into the old flume and run it down to your new ditch until I get back.
She avoided the camp, scrambling through the chaparral on the opposite bank, and, reaching the flume path at last, hurried on breathlessly.
The water that was lifted was carried away from the works in a flume 160 meters in length, which likewise removed the water from the motive wheels.
In order to dry the bed a dam is constructed, and the river is either diverted into a plank flume supported by piles, or into a canal dug along the shore, or by means of tight walls, according to the lay of the place.
The mountain grew reticent of its golden secrets, and the flume steadily ebbed away the remainder of Smith's fortune.
Three thousand dollars were expended by Smith and others in erecting a flume and in tunneling.
Into the roaring flume he had plunged headlong, frenziedly seeking her, as he vainly fought down through the gorge, buffeted and mauled by the churning water, but though he hunted the length of the river below, never found her.
Presently the crouching lad drove his spear into the flume at his feet and was struggling on the rock with a large salmon.
No further attempts were made to interfere with the ditch; but the flume itself sagged in the middle by natural subsidence of the loose soil, and much of it had to be set up again.
And I'll tell you somethin' else: When we get the flume pretty near in again I'm keepin' case myself.
On the afternoon of the day when the flume was completed, Rennie was absent.
Tie up on the berm side (to the left) and don't let yourself get dragged into the flume by the current at the locks.
The proximity of a shelter in case of a heavy rainstorm caused us to accept the locktender's hospitality to tie up for the night alongside the flume at the head of the lock.
The ditch is rarely used, because the banks of the mining-streams are usually so steep, high, rocky and crooked, that a flume is cheaper.
The greatest flume ever built in California was that of the Cape Claim Company, near Oroville, in 1857.
An inch of water is as much as will run out of an orifice an inch square, with the water standing six or seven inches deep in the flume over the orifice.
Lull pointed out the lines where his high ditch was to run at the base of the bench land, with flume at gully and canyon steeps.
It was at the end of this flumethat Harry King had filled the large dipper for his horse.
The next path he followed took him to a living spring, where the big man was wont to lead his own horse to water, and from whence he led the water to his cabin in a small flume to always drip and trickle past his door.
For high above him on the narrow flume he saw the fluttering little figure of his late companion crossing swiftly in the darkness.
As occasion may demand, the flumeis trestled, the main supports being placed every eight feet.
Sills, posts, and caps support and strengthen the flume every four feet.
Curves, where required, should be carefully set, so that the flume may discharge its maximum quantity.
Stringers running the entire length of the flume are placed beneath the sills just outside of the posts.
He found the dynamite, too, an' after that the guards was so thick along that flume that one couldn't do nawthin' without the next ones could see what he was up to.
When the flume was up the Donahues seen they was beat, so they come to me an' offered me a bunch of coin if I'd blow it up.
How to get water to "Flume Valley," as it came to be called, was a problem.
The way through the tunnel had been uphill all the way, as it must needs be to allow the water to run down to the reservoir in Flume Valley.
Why, even in the short time the steers have been in Flume Valley, Billee, they've improved.
There was dynamite tamped in among the rocks, and but for the stamping out of the fuse the tunnel never would have carried any more water to Flume Valley, and those in it might never have come out.
Of grass there was plenty in Flume Valley, and, had the stream continued to come through the pipe, there would have been a goodly supply of water, even for the extra stock added from Square M.
It was only a waste bit of land before dad ran the water through the tunnel-flume from Pocut River, but now it grows the best grass you ever rolled your bed in.
Following the first mysterious disappearance of the water, and its equally strange reappearance, peace seemed to settle down over Flume Valley.
All stock which had not been exposed to the infection had been removed, either to Diamond X, Triangle B or Flume Valley, and the infected steers remaining there were being treated by a veterinarian whom Mr. Merkel had engaged.
But this morning in the flume I saved my life by thinking of her, and I saved your life, too, maybe, by thinking of her; and I owe her something.
A flume regulates, concentrates, and controls the water power.
As the incident of the flume just now showed, he knew little indeed, for he had done exactly the opposite of what he meant to do.
At last she saw him coming from the flume of the mill!
Below him in the empty flumewas the master-carpenter giving a last inspection to the repairs.
George Masson was to come and inspect the flume early that morning.
He saw himself standing at the head of the flume out there by the Mill Cartier with his hand on the lever.
His moments with Jean Jacques at the flume had expanded him in a curious kind of way.
This flume for Jean Jacques' mill was also fifteen feet deep or more.
This much must be said for George Masson, that after the terrible incident at the flume he would have gone straight to the Manor Cartier to warn Carmen, if it had been possible, though perhaps she already knew.
Behind her an open door, creaking in the light wind, swung wide, and beyond it the upper flume stretched back to the natural reservoir where she had been imprisoned by the fallen pine tree.
All it needs is this short flume sketched in here to bring the water down, and a sluice-gate to feed the main canal that follows this bench we are on.
It was the heart of the wilderness, over a hundred miles from a settlement and off the track of road-houses, but a few rods on I came upon the flume and dump of a placer mine.
And take a project like the Peshastin, run by a strong company with plenty of capital; the man along the canal only has to pay his water rate, so much an irrigated acre; nothing towards the plant, nothing forflume construction and repairs.
But I think likely I'll tap the new High Line and rig a flume with one of these new-style electric pumps.
And most of that flume was constructed in those slow months he waited to hear from me.
He found the spring, marked high in a depressed shoulder, and followed the line of flume drawn from it down to a natural dry basin at the top of the pocket.
The company made improvements, built a flume thirty miles long to bring water to the property for development, but it was hardly finished when a State law was passed prohibiting hydraulic mining.
Six miles of continued ascent from the Flume House have brought us to Profile Lake, which the road skirts.
The Flume is reached by going down the road a short distance, and then diverging to the left and crossing the river to the Flume Brook.
President Dwight, in his "Travels," has no more eloquent passage than that describing the Flume Cascade.
The Flume House is the proper tarrying-place for an investigation of the mountain gorge from which it derives both its custom and its name.
These, called respectively the Silver Cascade, and the Flume withdrew the attention from every other object, until a sharp turn to the right brought the overhanging precipice of Mount Willard full upon us.
At theFlume House (refer to the preceding article).
The Pool is reached by a path half a mile long, entering the woods opposite the Flume House.
From the Flume House I looked up through the deep cleft of the Notch--an impressive vista.
Flume was on the tunnel floor, blood pulsing from the neck of his headless torso.
Then we better stick together from now on," Flume said.
Flume came running, took in the scene and joined the other two against the wall.
The Pool, the Cascades, Georgianna Falls, Mount Pemigewasset, and other objects of interest, are to be visited from the Flume House.
Within easy distance of the Flume House we find the three remaining curiosities of the Franconia Mountains.
At this point the Flume House, kept by Mr. Taft, offers the most admirable accommodations to those who wish to linger in this noble region.
The accompanying sketch shows one of these numerous fairy nooks, overlooked by Mount Liberty--the fine peak directly opposite the Flume House.
They are still operated in a quiet, scientific method, and one large flume crosses the track at a height of fully fifty feet.
But here rushes along its gigantic flume a great volume of hurried water, rolled over and over in headlong haste, hurled against solid abutments to recoil in showers of spray or to sheer off in sliding masses of liquid emerald.
