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Volume 3 (1858-1859) (592 pages)
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SCENES IN THE VALLEYS AND MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA.
487
¢IEW GF COLGOMA, EL DORADO COUNTY.
DISCOVERED.
From that time to the present, Coloma
has experienced the ups and downs usual
to most mining settlements where the population is ceaselessly changing. Nevertheless she now has a steady resident and
flourishing people, who are the owners of
-gome of the finest fruit orchards, vineyards
and gardens, to be found in any of the
mountain towns; and the possessors of
some of the most extensive, and in many
eases some of the most profitable mining
elaims in the State. Remunerative digginge are even found beneath the very
houses of the town.
The removal of the county seat to Plaeerville in 1857, was a serious check to
her prosperity for a time ; but she is now
rapidly regaining her former position.
The activity seen in the long street of
stores, offices and hotels, will tell their own
story to the visitor. Churches and school
houses ; Masonic, Odd Fellows and Sons
of Temperance Societies are all said to
THE LOCALITY WHERE GOLD WAS FIRST
useful institutions, one of the best conducted newspapers in the State, “The
Coloma Times,” edited and published by
G, O. Kies, which has our best wishes for
the prosperity it so well deserves.
MARIPOSA
Is the most southerly of all the mining
towns of importance in the State. Although ithas suffered more, perhaps, than
almost any other mining district for the
want of water for mining purposes, owing
to its quartz leads and rich flat, gulch,
and hill diggings, it has generally been
prosperous; and being the county seat,
as well as the trading centre of numerous small camps around, its streets at certain seasons of the year present a very
lively appearance. Two ably edited and
spirited papers are issued weekly ; one
‘the ‘‘ Mariposa Gazette,’ and the other
the “ Mariposa Star.”
The population is about thirteen hunflourish here, Then, though “last yet not . dred, or about one seventh of the entire
least,”’ must be included among her most county.