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Newspaper Notes - 1860's (NN-1860-69)(1860s) (238 pages)
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hills," reported the Marysville Herald on March 29, 1851.
Following the discovery of gold in the Northern Sierra
in 1848, thousands of.gold hungry emigrants swarmed into the
area. By 1852 the population of the Marysville region had
swollen to nearly forty thousand. These pioneers were not
only hungry for gold; they were oagiak Ger supplies. Provisions
for the gold miners were funneled through Marysville via a long,
treacherous, expensive route. Beginning on the East coast,
freight was loaded aboard sailing vessels for the three months'
trip around the Horn to San Francisco. It was reloaded onto
whale boats, skiffs, small schooners, and steamers that plied
the Sacramento River to Sacramento. Once again the supplies
were reloaded onto smaller vessels for trans-shipment up the
Feather River to Marysville. At this point modern transportation ended and primitive began. Because of insufficient roads,
it was 1853 before wagon-hauled supplies rolled out of Marysville.
Thousands of mules were needed to transport the thirtyfive thousand yearly tons of supplies from Marysville dock to
the gold fields. Soon Marysville acquired the distinction of
being the jackass capital of California. So many mules were
stabled around the town (over four thousand) that the mule
population often exceeded the human inhabitants. The cacophonic
braying of that many mules must have created a din worthy of
the town's unique distinction.
Many of these Marysville animals had been imported from
Mexico and were also owned and driven by Mexicans. The average.