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Volume 3 (1858-1859) (592 pages)
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Page: of 592
488 . HUTCHINGS’ CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE.
It is here that the celebrated Fremont
Grant is located.
Being an excellent starting point to the
Yo-Semite valley andthe Mariposa Grove
ef mammoth trees, it is likely to become
a place famous to history and the note
looks of travelers.
VIEW OF
MOKELUMNE HILL.
However much one mining town in
California may be said to resemble another, generally speaking, Mokelumne Hill
must certainly be considered an exception. If a stranger enters town, whether by the Stockton or Sacramento roads,
the impression is almost invariably the
same, “what an oddly situated and singularly constructed town this seems to be?”
This in a great measure was unavoidable
as therich diggings discovered here in the
fall of 1849 created the necessity of a
settlement, and as the-town was located
upon the most eligible spot that could be
found, its builders were left but little
choice in the matier; yet, standing as it
does upon an elevated bench of the mountain, some eighteen hundred feet above
the Mokelumne river ; its position is very
fully cultivated gardens in the vicinity,
give an air of freshness and home-like
brightness that some other places we
might mention, would do well to imitate
The distance from Stockton to Mariposa
is 91 miles, and the road good, upon
The neat, and taste. which a line of stages is running daily.
MARIPOSA,
commanding and picturesque, especially
from the trail between Jackson and thehill.
The rich gulch claims worked here in
the winter of 1849 and ’50 attracted a
numerous population, many of whom
were Mexican and Chilian, Inthe spring
of 1851, diggings of almost fabulous richness were discovered and worked in Negro, French, and Stockton hills. From
one claim on the former, of only fifteen
feet square, over seventy-eight thousand
dollars were taken out. Of course such
profitable employment could not long remain a secret, and men began to flock
there in great numbers ; but, as in many
other cases, when they arrived, they found
to their regret that all the good claims
were taken up.
Many of our readers will call to mind
the exciting scenes connected with the