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An Illustrated History of California's Gold Rush by Wells Fargo Bank (PH 1-27) (34 pages)

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i nd in spite of her docwere many witnesses, @ : a that she was with child, she was ’, assertion , aed An autopsy established that the doctor's testimony had been fabricated in an attempt to save i nd as it was believed with some reason fe nel was not the first one to be polished off by this fiery Mexican wench, Downieville felt justified. But the rest of the State was horrified and the residents of Downieville didn’t do that any more. The museum in town is well worth a visit. It was built in 1852, as was the Costa store which has walls four feet thick at the bottom. Side trips from Downieville will take you to Forest, a once rich camp which is now virtually deserted, and Alleghany, a precarious village perched on the mountainside over Kanaka Creek. Gold is still being mined in Alleghany. Three miles west of Downieville is Goodyear’s Bar, one of the first big strikes of the area. $2,000 in gold was taken from a single wheelbarrow load of gravel here, but the claim soon gave out and now only a few frame buildings remain to commemorate the site. =H i === Mil ———_—* St. Charles Hotel in Downieville SIERRA CITY East of Downieville on Highway 49 is Sierra City where the E Clampus Vitus society was founded in California. Over the doorway of the Busch Building, built in 1871, you will see the initials ECV in remembrance of that historic event. The high granite buttes outside the town contained a rich vein of gold-bearing quartz which yielded 9