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Show liOI.LI IN CALIFORNIA. Dmial ihiit .llurahnll vh Hie Flint ni.cov. r i'. Tiu: (.)..' --.ii iiulbtin of January Uth puhlMic-s the following letter: Yf.stimut, Ci.a'Iop Co., Giv-ron. T" 'If Etilnr rf liutUtin: In this day's Weekly Udl.tia yon have a ditqiiny: from (he Sacramento y,Yc.'.n, chiming Mar-hall a-i the finder of the ';ilil'i'niia gold, and dealing a pen-ion lor him a; Mich. As this unjiut i"' i:li. rs (;lie real discoverers). I L'ivr in low a .-.hurt account of its d;S cover) : L'ir-i In 1."',"-', iu (.'oroiiua, Spain, one Loyola Cnbeihi pnhli.-dicd a book L'i'lbc "Keeord of California Missions," ! and in it f.uu-d that lo the norihwc.it lofSanJivc Minion plaecros of gold j wore found, but only in small quanii- j Second Mr. Abel Stearns, living i-i San Ufrnardino county, sent to the j 1'hiladelphia mini considerable gold ; dust, to be coined, bouehl by him trom ', tl-e Indians. i.See his evidence in j 1G. beiom the legislature of Cali-' Cali-' fomia. ) Third In 1?42, James D. Pana. A M., mineralogist of Wilkes' eiplriiu expedition, in hii "System of Minei-alocy," Minei-alocy," page 552 (first edition"', says gold rocks and veins of quartz wore observed by the author in 142, near the Umpqua river, in Southern Ore-eon. Ore-eon. Again on pages 251-2 he says he found gold near the Sierra Nevada, on the Sacramento, and n!so in the San Jonquin rivers and between those rivers. Fourth In the months of October and November, 1S45, Salvador, a Mexican, Mex-ican, was shot in Snn Francisco on account ac-count of having a bag of gold dn-t, and whn near dying pointed northward north-ward and said, "legos, legos," or "yonder," "yon-der," as 10 where lie hal found the gold dust. Fifth On the 10th of September. lS-lo, G. M. Evans, and John Sirrine (a Mormon), discovered gold dust about eight or ten miles south-southeast from ldndscy's Lake, near Stockton, Stock-ton, as it is now called. Sirrine is in New York and Evans is the writer. Sixth On the .19th of January, 1S4S, Henderson Cox and Beardsley, two Mormons, discovered Mormon 1 Island, and secretly worked there until the yth of February, nccording to my information to them, and divided with me. Seventh On the inh or loth of 'February, Marshall accepted. the mill-rate mill-rate puddling from the Mormons, and then was the first lime he knew of the gold. Eighth The mill was always known as Sutter's mill, Marshall only being his foreman; so Marshall lost no mill and his penury was the effect of mismanagement mis-management of funds or waste fulness. On the 10th of April, 1S47, the first mail from .Van Francisco to the States, via Salt Like, was sent by Lieutenant Buel and Sam Brannan, containing an account of the gold prospeots in Cnii forma in the California J$Mr. he tirst positive knowledge of gold dust in quintities was made known by Sam Brannan about the 12lb of May, IMS, in San Francisco, which caused the exottus of the male population to the mines. "Honor lo whom iioiioi- K due." It was Suiter's mill ruee, not Marshall's. Stearnes, G. M. Evans and J. Sirrine were the first American discoverers, and Sam Brannan the first propagator of the fact positive. 1'iease insert this, ami let Caiifor-nians Caiifor-nians know that old Ca'.ifor'uians aro yet iu Oregon. Geoiuie M. Evans. January 6, 1ST2. |