The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-11-12

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in the evening Marshall exhibited his
find to the circle composing the mill
company laborers. Their names were |
James w. Marshall, p. Il. WINNER, Mrs.
WINNER, james Barger, Ira Willis, Sgd
ney Willis, Alexander Stephens, James |
Brown, Ezkiah Persons, Henry Bigler,
Israel Smith, William johnson, George |
Evans, Charles Bennett and William
Scott. The conference resulted in the
rejection of the idea that it was gold. |
Mrs. WINNER tested it by boiling it in
strong lye. Marshall afterward tested
it with nitric acid. 1t was gold, sure
enough, and the discoverer found its
like in all the surrounding gulches
wherever he dug for it. The secret could
not be long kept 1t was known at
Yerba Buena three months after the dis
covery, and the two printers above men
toned put this slight notice Of it in their
weekly paper, The Californian, on the
10th OF April:
New GOLD MTNE.-It is stated that new
gold mine has been discovered on the American
Fork of the Sacramento, supposed to be Gt was
not) on the land of William A. Leldesdortf,
ESQ.,, of this place. A specimen of the gold
has been exhibited, and Is represented to be
very pure.
May opened with accounts OF new dis
coveries. The Californian Of May 8
said: "Seven men, with picks and
spades, gathered 81 800 worth in fifteen
days" That was a little more than SIS
per day per man. On the 18th of May
the same paper said: MANY persons
have already left the coast for the dig
gings. Considerable excitement exists
here. Merchants and mechanics are
closing doors. Lawyers and alcaldes
are leaving their desks, farmers are
neglecting their crops and whole families
are forsaBing their homes for the dig
gings. BY May "a gold dust had be-
come an article of merchandise, the
price being from $14 to SIG per ounce.
The Californian Of that date had these
advertisements
GOLD GOLD GOLD!
Cash will be paid for California gold by
r. II. BUCKALEw,
Matchmaker and Jeweer, San Francisco.
GOLD! GOLD GOLD
Messrs Dickson & Hay are purchasers Of
Sacramento gold. A liberal price given.
| BEE HIVE.
On the 29th Of May the Californian
issued slip stating that its further pub
lication, for the present, would cease.
because nearly all its patrons had gone
TO the mines. A month later there
| were but five persons-women and chill
dren-left in Yerba Buena. The first
rush was for Suffers Mill, since chris
tened CoIoma, or Culluma, after tribe
of Indians who lived i'll that region.
From there they scattered in all direc-
tions. "A large stream OF them went
over to Weber creek, which empties into
the American some ten or twelve miles
below Coloma Others went up or
down the river. Some, more adventur-
ous, crossed the ridge over to the north
and middle forks Of the American. BY
the close Of June the discoveries had
extended to all the forks Of the Amerl-
can, Weber creek, Hangtown creek, the
Costumes (1nown then as the Mako
sumel. the Mokelumna, Tuolumne, the
Yuba from uvas, or yuvas-grape),
called in 1848 the "Yuba, or Aiuba, !
and Feather river. On July Is the edi-
tor Of the Californian returned and is
sued the first number Of his paper after
its suspension. 1t contained descrlp-
| ton of the mines from personal observa-
ton. He said
"The country from the Ajuba (Yuba)
to the San Joaquin, distance OF abont
100 miles. and from the base toward tht
summit Of the mountains, as far as Snow
hill (meaning Neyada), about seventy
miles, has been explored and gold founC
on every part There are now probably
8. 900 people, including Indians, engaged
in collecting gold. The amount collect
ed by each man ranges from $40 to S35'
| nf
; collected with the aid of ashovel, pick an
atinpan, from$44 to $l2s per daymaver
' aging 300. The gross amount conecte
E may exceed 5000, 900, of which amoun
0 our merchants have received S25O, OuO, u
for goods, and in eight weeks. The lare
7 est piece known to be found weigh
: eight pounds.
: On the 14th of August the number
white miners was estimated at 4,OO'
: Many Of them were of Stephenson's reg
= ment and the disbanded Mormon batta
= ion. The Californian remarked on TIM
: day that "when q man with his pan
= basket does not average $50 to $40 p'
y day, he moves to another place" Fo'
~ thousand ounces day was the estimate
!" production of the mines five montl
= after the secret leaked out. In April u
Y price of -four here was "a per hundred
~ ~ in August it had risen to SIG. All 9th
y y subsistence supplies rose in the san
~ y proportion. Here is part of letter fro
~ 70 Sonoma, to the California;. Aug. IA /:
I'd II have heard from one Of our citize
10 who has been at the placers only Il
D. weeks and collected 81, 800, still avera
ing 300 day. Another, who shut
his hotel here some five or six wee
since, has returned with 81, 200, collect
with spade, pick and Indian basket,
man and his wife and boy collected $t
Ro ip one day."
ng Sam Brannan laid exclusive claim
sy Mormon island, in the American. abt
to twenty-eight miles above its mouth,
ial levied a royalty of 80 per cent.
ny all the gold taken there by the M
"a. mons, who paid it for a while, but
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