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Old Mining Towns and Old Bottles (PH 4-6)(1964) (37 pages)
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by tests of their own, that there was gold and refused to
work at the mill any longer. Marshall and Sutter finally
talked them into staying and asked them to say nothing for
six weeks, the time allotted to finish the mill.
Although the workmen promised to keep the word quiet
of the gold discovery, it managed to leak out. Soon after,
squatters and miners came by the thousands and settled on
Sutter's land, and he lost everything.
Today, there are several original buildings still standing, including the cabin in which James W. Marshall lived.
Coloma has a state park with many interesting things to see
from the days of the gold rush.
Onour trip to Coloma, we camped just off the river bank,
about a mile upstream from Sutter's Mill. This marvelous
country, where gold was first discovered in California, gives
you a good idea of what it was like back in the days of the
"49er's'". We even had a chance to do some gold panning.
We were very surprised when we pried open a large rock.
It was fractured in many segments, and we scraped up the
dirt and gravel that had settled to the bottom. We carefully
washed this panfull of diggings. Although, we don't know
anything about panning for gold, we counted 16 small flakes
mixed with black sand. We look forward to more gold panning, as this is a very relaxing pastime.
In our search for bottles in the Coloma area, we seeked
information from some of the senior citizens in the area.
One old gent had a very vivid memory of the surroundings
and told us where we might find some old camp sites and
dumps.
After searching for a long time, we found a very old and
corroded brass lamp. Although looking worthless, it cleaned up very nicely. We continued looking in the same area
until we located where there was anold campsite. We managed to find the usual pile of rusty cans, which is always a
good indication that there will be some oldbottles there too.
Digging through the cans, we found some whiskey flasks. We
also found a square amber bottle with ''Wait's Wild Cherry
Tonic" and avery. good "Allen's Nerve and Bone Liniment".
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