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Show 10,000 acres of the beautiful -land along Feather river will be washed , away and only an unsightly bed of stones will remain It surely will be too bad, for those lands, if left to themselves and cultivated, would produce luxuriant crops for 10,000 years to come. ' And the mining might be done and the lands saved by pumping .the fine soil back upon the boulders, boul-ders, but this is expensive; the dredgers will not do it unless paid, and the farmers cannot.. The State onght to do it and then own the lands to be sold later when their'fertilty is restored. The Sacramento Sacramen-to valley is a beautiful valley; it is barbarous to permit great tracts of it to be destroyed. . " : : : : ' A DESERT MAKER. A paper at hand deplores the vandalism of the steam dredge in California, and savB in a brief time |