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Half an Hour in El Dorado (PH 1-12)(1940s-50s) (35 pages)
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Page: of 35
At first, the placer miners did not know how to
treat the new discovery. Using iron mortars
(No. 19), they ground the quartz laboriously by
hand, and washed it in their pans. Next they
tried Mexican arrastras (No.20) . . . crude
mule-power mills, that broke up the quartz by
grinding it round and round. Finally, in 1851,
the first stamping mill was built. The stamps
were merely tree trunks shod with iron. But they
did the work. And Grass Valley boomed.
Grass Valley in the ‘Fifties (No. 21), when its
fame was echoing round the world, was not an
impressive-looking community. Yet it had some
renowned inhabitants. There was, for instance,
Maria Dolores Eliza Gilbert, better known as
r
NO. 22 NO. 23
Lola Montez (No. 22). This fascinating dancer
had already cost a king his crown. In her cottage
(No, 23) she entertained with French cookery
and delicacies brought in at fabulous cost. And
here, over the champagne glasses, she plotted to
make California an independent nation, with
herself as queen.
Not far away stood the house (No. 24) in
which lived young Lotta Crabtree . . . a child
who had made the long voyage around the Horn
with her parents. The talented girl won the attention of Lola Montez, who taught her to sing