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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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Page: of 34
outh end of town. Across the street is
Jd livery stable. Returning from
Highway 49 at Angels Camp.
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Vallecito you rejoin
ANGELS CAMP This is the town immortalized in
Mark Twain’s amusing story of “The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” In May every
year ambitious and athletic frogs gather here in the
shadow of a statue of the man who did more than
anyone since Aesop to put frogs on the map, and
contend for the jumping championship of the Gold
Country and a chance for immortality.
If it hadn’t been for a miner named Raspberry, Angels Camp might not be in existence today. Surface
gold gave out rapidly in the Angels Camp area and
the residents were looking around for better prospects when Raspberry decided to go hunting with
his old muzzle loader. Much to his exasperation the
ramrod stuck in the barrel, and after fruitless attempts to extricate it he pulled the trigger in a final
desperate effort to free it. He did. The ramrod flew
out and struck the ground, and when Raspberry recovered it he noticed that the pieces of rock which
had been broken off by the impact had a bright glitter to them. In three days Raspberry took $10,000
from his new claim, and went on to make a fortune
from the vein he had found. So Angels Camp became a hardrock mining area and the deep mines
kept it going for many years. On a pedestal in town
you can see a core of solid rock cut from the mountain by the massive drills which drove the shafts
down to the quartz veins far beneath the surface.
From Angels Camp Highway 49 will take you to
Carson Hill, Melones and Tuttletown, with short
side trips to Roaring Camp and Jackass Hill.
CARSON HILL James Carson, when he came to
the Gold Country, traveled in good company. His
companions were the Murphy brothers who founded
Murphy’s Diggings, and George Angel for whom
Angels Camp was named. There’s not much left to
see in Carson Hill except a few frame buildings, but
this was once one of the richest of the rich camps,
and it produced the largest nugget of the entire
California bonanza—one huge piece of gold which
weighed 195 pounds and was valued at $78,710.
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