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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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fore the close ofthe year 1848, and the product of their labor was five million dollars,an average of 07ie tkousa?td dollars to a man. There were about twothousand men living in San Francisco in January, 1848, all but fiveof whom left for the gold-field. No doubt there was much exaggeration in regard to the richnessof the mines ; at any rate, many adventurers risked life itself toreach the land of gold, expecting to fill their pockets daily with theprecious metal. And yet, the real facts in the case were marvellous.Gold was found in so large quantities, that the five thousand seekersin 48 believed there was enough for every man who might come.Two ounces per day was but an ordinary yield for each man, andmany did much better than that. As the value of gold was twelvedollars per ounce in cash and sixteen dollars in trade, their hardlabor was very remunerative. Colonel Mason, who made an exami-nation of the mines for the government, confirmed, in his official 432 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST.
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SUTTERS MILL. MARVELS OF MINI JVC. 433 report, their reputation for richness and magnitude. He said thatthe leading store at Sutters Fort in nine weeks received thirty-sixthousand dollars in gold-dust, in exchange for goods; and that twomen took out of a small ravine seventeen thousand dollars in sevendays. He relates that seven miners hired fifty Indians to work forthem seven weeks. At the end of that time, they had two hundredand seventy-three pounds of pure gold, the cash value of which wasnearly forty thousand dollars. Some men, on some days, made ahundred dollars each, and even more. A miner pulled up a bush oneday, and shook the earth fromits roots into his pan, as afarmer pulls and shakes a hillof potatoes, and the yield ofgold from that bush was near-ly fifty dollars. In 1850, anugget of gold was found inNevada County, valued atthree hundred and twelvedollars. In Columbia Dis-trict, the same year, severalnuggets of even greater valuewere picked up, one of themweighing twenty-t

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