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Show CALIFORNIA TRADITION EXPLODED. About this season of the vcar the reviewers ot I California's development recall with unction the "first discoveiy" of gold in the tail race of Sutter s mill by Marshall. As a matter of fact, knowledge of the existence of the precious metal in California was current at a much earlier date, as the orficist records of Mexico show. Mr. John T. Doyle, writing writ-ing to Judge Coffey, president of the California Historical society at the time of the meeting of that organization in Xovember last, states thur 4 f quills of gold dust were sent to Boston ty certain American settlers ii what is now the state of California, Cali-fornia, as early as 18:28. He says no importance seems to have been attached to the knowledge as u was never followed up. He quotes from an old document doc-ument published in Mexico in 1844. in which i'oti Manuel Castanares. deputy from the territory f the Mexican congress, details the condition of tin-placer tin-placer mining industry then recently developed in ! certain localities in California. There is a fradi- ., Hon that appears to rest on a pretty solid found- i Hon of fa;t that the Spanish padres verv soon aft- I er coming to California learned of the existence of j gold, but refused to turn the knowledge to account- j for the sake of the Indians who would become de- j moralized through the rush of fortune-seek-rs i whom the development of mines would be certain j to attract. San Francisco Monitor. .) , ! |