Show L l JUS By Albert F Philips S 1 I I Most fost of the histories In referring to the discovery of ot gold In the United Sta States es fix the place at Sutter's Sutter's Sutter's Sut- Sut ter's mill In the valley VaIley of the Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento river dyer California and the time timo January 24 1848 But gold was found In C California first In Los Angeles county six six years jears ears before Marshall unco uncovered ered the precious metal at Sutter's mill mm Marshalls Marshall's s find was an accident that of ot Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco Lopez was not The latter had received information th that t wa wa- worn ter-worn pebbles of a certain sort had been found in in Los Angeles county and that they can led gold Lopez was a farmer or rancher but while pulling up wild onions at San SanI I Francisquito a settlement about thirty thirty fIve five miles north of ot Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles gees he found some of the pebbles clinging cUnS to the roots of df the wild vegetable which he was gathering the pebbles answering the description description tion of those that he had learned were we're were ere found elsewhere In his county He at once began prospecting with the result that he gathered precious metal gold to an amount of which he received from the mint to which he had forwarded the tle pebbles No attempt was made to keep it a 0 secret but Los Angeles at that date had not learned the first primer of or advertising so that the discovery of ot gold was vas not made known hence no rush to the gold find John P P. P Young in his history of S Journalism In California points II out that the rumored discovery of gold by Marshall at at Sutter Sutter's s mill mUl made no serious impressions on the boosters for the country at that date the residents believing that the future of ot California depended upon upon agriculture and grazing STAMPEDE FOLLOWS A year after the discovery of gold goldat at Sutter's mill mm the people of the east learned of the find and there was a stampede stamped for the gold fields Occupations ot Of t all kinds In the Golden state it is said WM was suspended suspended suspended sus sus- and the towns towns' and ond communities corn corn- deserted tc to flock to the golconda From all parts of ot the world people flo flocked to California's i gold fields The Forty numbered numbered num num- j A A large larg number crossed the plains by wagon coming comIng corning com corn ing by South Pass and then ihen along the California trail tran The Were not prepared for roughing it and many manyd d died ed of st starvation Many others voyage around Cape Capo Horn through the graveyard of ot the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- and still many others crossed the Isthmus o of at Panama and then secured passage by vessel to San an Francisco S 'S It might be said that the th rush tush to th the California nia gold fields from the states accomplished one thing that thai prove proved 1 a a. bl blessing in later years and that s W as s the signing of ot the tho Cla ClaytonS Clayton j ton f C 1 S c S SC Sc jt j S S Bulwer treaty which settled the question of an isthmian C canal The rush lush of ot population to California re revived revived re- re consideration of ot the question of ot an Ian canal co complications having arisen between Great Britain and the United States as to the control of ot the Nicaragua route I across the isthmus and on April 19 19 1850 th the treaty was concluded between be between be- be between tween Secretary of t State Cla Clayton ton and the British minister to the United States Slates Bulwer known as toe I Cla Clayton ton Bulwer treaty In which itI it it- it was agreed that neither nations S I should occupy colonize or exercise exercise dominion over Nicaragua Costa Rico or any part of Central America Amer Amer- America I ica fea A general principle was also asserted that whereby the nations named agreed to also extend their I protection by treaty stipulations to other practicable communications across the Isthmus J During the time of or the abandonment abandon ment merit of ot specie payments resumption of or which was brought about on January 1st 1879 California held to specie payments and adhered steadfastly to gold currency MINING IN UTAH Mining for gold In Utah did not come until after several slIver silver camps were opened p ned up tho the first firstI I mining In the state being in the late hite sixties anti and silver lIvel and lead tho staple products of ot he Utah properties s though gh gold was found foundas as also copper in BIngham can- can jon and arid in in other places s in the state slate Between the summer of ot 1869 and the autumn of ot 1871 ten thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand tons of sliver silver and gold ores had been shipped from the territory I Ithe I the value of ot the ores being 2 also four thousand five hundred tons i 9 of z gold and bullion valued at 1273 I Gold ia is so remarkable le for tor its ductility and malleability that an ounce of ot the metal be hammered hammered ham barn out in to one hundred square feet of ot gold leaf lear and fifteen grains may be drawn Into a wire vir over two I thousands yards In length Goldis Gold GoldIs Is remarkable also for Its high specific gravity and in this reSpect re- re i j it is next to platinum For i coinage and that It may stand wear without loss It Is alloyed with copper copper cop cop- t per silver and other metals as also in the manufacture of jewelry In round numbers the weight of ot one I million dollars s In standard gold goldcoin coin oln is 1 4 13 4 3 tons standard silver i coin cola 26 4 4 3 tons subsidiary silver coin 2 25 tons minor coin 5 cent nickel nic nie- nie kel tons S SIn In the Australian mines the gold goldis is found in many Instances In nuggets nuggets nuggets nug nug- gets thus South Australia produced the tho Blanch Barkley nugget which weighed 14 pounds and Victoria I the Welcome elc nugget weighing d aI and worth nore than 40 40 f 1 D S. 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