The History of the Gold Discoveries of the Northern Mine's [sic] of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt as Told by the Newspapers and Miners, 1848-1875Trafford Publishing, 2000 - 326 strani This book is the chronological history of the gold rush and gold discoveries from 1848 through 1875, as viewed and reported by the newspapers and miners, on what was called the Northern Mines area of California's Mother Lode Gold Belt. The Northern Mines was that area north of the Cosumnes River, which included Placerville on northward. It included the region containing the South, Middle and North forks of the American River, the Bear River, the South, Middle and North forks of the Yuba River, and the South, Middle and North forks of the Feather River, plus all the other branches and tributaries that ran into the named forks and rivers. This book contains as many newspaper articles that could be found relating to the gold rush days. In using the newspaper articles from the golden era as printed, with their dates, this reveals just when the "New Diggings" as they were called, were found; where they were being made; how rich some of the diggings were; what type of diggings they were; the names of some of the prospectors who found some of the diggings or who were at the diggings and what they were taking out. There are tales of how some of the diggings were found and why some of them received the names they did. The overall purpose of this book is to give a full picture of exactly what was happening to as many different named diggings, locations, camps, and towns that came up in the Northern Mines area, and to give an account of events over at least a certain length of time, exactly as it was reported. To determine from just where each newspaper article within this book comes from, each of the newspaper articles used has first, the date on which it appeared in the newspaper, followed in parentheses by the name of the newspaper from which that particular article was obtained from. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Events of the first year gold was discovered 1848 | 8 |
The Discoveries and Events of the year 1849 | 55 |
The Discoveries and Events of the year 1858 | 257 |
The Discoveries and Events of the year 1859 | 282 |
The Discoveries and Events of the Civil War Years 1860 1864 Page | 289 |
The Discoveries and Events of the year 1865 thru 1875 | 301 |
Appendix Maps of the Northern Mines Area | 322 |
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1857 Daily Union Alta American River Auburn auriferous average banks bed rock California Canyon cement City claim Coloma commenced Creek deposits discovered discovery ditch dollars per day Dorado Downieville drift dry diggings El Dorado County extensive Feather River five Flat flume four Georgetown Gold Hill Grass Valley gravel ground gulches half hand hundred feet informed Iowa Hill labor last week ledge located lump Marysville Herald Middle Fork miles mill miners months Mormon Island Mountain Democrat nearly Nevada Nevada County newspaper North Fork nugget ounces of gold ounces per day pay dirt piece Placer County Placer Herald Placerville pounds prospecting pure gold quartz rains ravine rich diggings richest ridge rocker running Sacramento season shaft side Sierra County sluice South Fork specimens spring stream struck taken thousand dollars took town tunnel vein vicinity washed weighing winter yield Yuba River