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Show Tin: iirit iiiicuH.ui it or cam- lOltMAX li'UI.II. Ho Jin of the prominent magaxlnea have lately been reviving an Interest Inthesuljectof Iheflrst dltcotery of gold In California. The Nr also recently contained an article on that tulject. Among Iho gentlemen who have been prominently mentioned In this connection Is the n ejected veteran Henry W. lllgler, of HU (leorge, who Is credited with being In posecwlon of Iho mot! exact and reliable Inlorma-lion Inlorma-lion ou the tulject. We have received an Intonating letter from him, of which the following It thesulatancei ' In the Interest of truthful history, f feel It liiniinuenl aa a duty to sjimk a) tliMlihatitcrylata data. II h been mid and told lo my face Ihtre wit no n-e of talking, for Marshtll wit not the man who first found gold In Call-f Call-f mla. U mtv be remenibenl by mtnv nC voile e lra Dill several yeare agi peibsps thirty or more leorge A. Hnillli adrenlie-l f.ir all Juur-nalt Juur-nalt kept by mombert of the Mormon battalion In l brought In the II Ittorltn'a DDloe, for llio purpoweuf lulllnc matter for Lliurch lil-lory. Illshop (less, of IVriiiliigfi.ii, carried my Jimnial to the B. U bin the Historian rime In Ibst irt of my diary which give the account oflliodlsciitaryof gold, I wat Immediately Immedi-ately sent lor. rptiralmClreeuandJslnes N. Ilrown, of your elty, were also railed to appear at tbe emee and questioned as towlto madetbo distover). These men backet up my statement by wiyllig'llsnry tmj-selfj Is llihtl JttnH .Marshall was the first who found the gold.' I write these statements because lliere wire oltiera rretllte.1 with being the rlril ills-eoterers, ills-eoterers, and to this dsy IhesesUteinents may bo bellcvcil by a tsrge .irtlou of Utter-day mints lii Uuli and uut of It " |