A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)

whirl of quick and easy riches vast fortunes in gold still at their finger tips. Mines with an apex ledge first one to work it can follow it down. SURFACE RIGHTS ; Many cases of property owners owned just surface rights 100 feet down. Mining interests owned from 100 feet on down to China. Old saying still goes, neither your children, nor your children's children will live to see these gold mines worked out. HYDRAULIC GIANTS The hydraulic giants operate under eighty-five pounds of pressure, with a six inoh nozzle washing down mountain sides more than one hundred fifty feet high into sluice boxes two thousand feet long, where gold is recovered. . RIP ROARING ROUGH AND READY ~~ GOLD MINT NG Near Squirrel Creek, a miner kicked a piece of quartz with his toe, went back and picked it up, and found it to be a large nugget in the shape of a kidney. Judson, of the Rough and Ready emigrants stooped to quench his thirst in Squirrel Creek, and found a nugget worth $1,600 00. He placed a wire around the nugget and with much joy and yell, dragged it up and down Rough and Ready cow trail street. Even in the year 1646, the Gold Rush, with hordes of California bound money hunwould-be miners, has erroneously established 1849 as the beginning of the westward migration. Actually ruts were being worn in the Oregon-California trail, nearly ten years before. Pioneers had been crossing the plains through spring after spring, summer after summer. If one looked for a place where nobody else was, he would have to take a place nobody else wanted. It all started before the thirty-first star had been added, when they contracted the gold fever. Many cases of one pick away from a strike. Some fought for gold Some fought for beans and bacon Some fought for fun Some fought for love. E.C.Morgan had an Indian friend, named Johnson, and the Indian version was that Indians naked in Penn Valley, and they hunted gold nuggets long before the white man. They did not know the value and traded gold for beads and trifling items of little value. James W. Marshall passed through the Rough and Ready district and panned out some gold on Deer Creek, before the discovery of Colomats Sutter's gold strike. Marshall just had itchy feet and moved on. In 1852 fifty dollar gold slugs were used in Rough and Ready. Even a cache of them are still buried here, they were hexigon shape, manufactured by the mint also in $1.00, 25¢ and 50¢ round gold coins. It seems a fact that gold was uncovered here some time before the Coloma strike. It also seems a fact that about 1641 there was a settlement in the hills back of where the town of Rough and Ready is now. situated. It is claimed that they mined gold by a cold process, and old mining tools have been found. GOLD is where you find it and belongs to the man that finds it. That was the rule in Rough and Ready mining towns of the other Lode. Claim jumpers flourished as did gamblers. Shootings and stabbings Google 19 . ] tion: Were an everyday occurrence, and many a man and one woman ended up wearing a “hemp necktie,” when vigilante justice went into acmostly mob rule. They came by the thousands and ten thousands from all over the world, lured by tales of fortunes made overnight. Their only thoughts were to pick a fortune in gold from "Californy" and go back home. across the plains they came by oxen, horses and mule drawn wagons, and around the Horn, by sail and steam, by ship to Panama across the Isthmus, crossing the charges, then another ship to fabulous California. Soldiers left their regiments and sailors deserted their ships. Sditors closed their print shops and cobblers left their benches, “all for gold." They didn't know that they were building an empire, but they built it. They didn't plan to stay, but who would go back to other places when there were millions of fertile acres to farm in this rich new land? Some made great fortunes panning or sluicing gold, but the forty-niners and those who came after saw California become a great new state in the Union, a new star in the flag, producing more wealth than even the wildest dreams of those brave gold seekers. Gold, a sight for sore eyes and to the pocketbook, yet our present administration buries it again after it is dug up at enormous cost. The gold rush created the State of California, greeted at first with doubt, curious end contempt. Military authorities investigated for themselves. Then gold strike startled the world and started a mass movement. ‘Even with military orders, home ties seemed helpless. President James K. Polk's announcment of gold, created a movement unknown to the world and hastened the stampede. Polk attached Col. Mason's report on conditions in California to his report to Congress, December 5, 1849, Colonel Mason from Montery, was forced (to issue a threat to take military possession of the mining districts if the miners did not seize the deserters. He, also, issued a blast against men who had deserted their families and the Army to go to the gold fields, and threatened to use military force to exclude all unlicensed persons from the gold region. It is desireable to develop the riches and wealth of California, but military safety of the country mst be secured at all hazards, he said. Major Hardie was told that all lawyers, the Circuit Judge, and most of the legislature had gone, and that it seemed likely that the Supreme Judge himself would soon follow. James A, Hardie reported that he had sent to the U.S.Mint, via Adams and Company, express to Philadelphia, $12,000.00 in gold dust, which property was Joseph L. Folsom's, U.S.A. August 13, 1849. ; When flakes of gold were first seen, it was thought to be mica. Colonel Eddy was the first to utilize the Sluice Box in mining, 1850. HYDRAULIC GIANTS Operate under elgnty-frive pounds of pressure, with a six inch nozzle, washing down mountain sides. More than fifty feet high into sluice boxes, two thousands feet long, where gold is removed.

whirl of quick and easy riches vast fortunes in gold still at their finger tips. Mines with an apex ledge first one to work it can follow it down. SURFACE RIGHTS ; Many cases of property owners owned just surface rights 100 feet down. Mining interests owned from 100 feet on down to China. Old saying still goes, neither your children, nor your children's children will live to see these gold mines worked out. HYDRAULIC GIANTS The hydraulic giants operate under eighty-five pounds of pressure, with a six inoh nozzle washing down mountain sides more than one hundred fifty feet high into sluice boxes two thousand feet long, where gold is recovered. . RIP ROARING ROUGH AND READY ~~ GOLD MINT NG Near Squirrel Creek, a miner kicked a piece of quartz with his toe, went back and picked it up, and found it to be a large nugget in the shape of a kidney. Judson, of the Rough and Ready emigrants stooped to quench his thirst in Squirrel Creek, and found a nugget worth $1,600 00. He placed a wire around the nugget and with much joy and yell, dragged it up and down Rough and Ready cow trail street. Even in the year 1646, the Gold Rush, with hordes of California bound money hunwould-be miners, has erroneously established 1849 as the beginning of the westward migration. Actually ruts were being worn in the Oregon-California trail, nearly ten years before. Pioneers had been crossing the plains through spring after spring, summer after summer. If one looked for a place where nobody else was, he would have to take a place nobody else wanted. It all started before the thirty-first star had been added, when they contracted the gold fever. Many cases of one pick away from a strike. Some fought for gold Some fought for beans and bacon Some fought for fun Some fought for love. E.C.Morgan had an Indian friend, named Johnson, and the Indian version was that Indians naked in Penn Valley, and they hunted gold nuggets long before the white man. They did not know the value and traded gold for beads and trifling items of little value. James W. Marshall passed through the Rough and Ready district and panned out some gold on Deer Creek, before the discovery of Colomats Sutter's gold strike. Marshall just had itchy feet and moved on. In 1852 fifty dollar gold slugs were used in Rough and Ready. Even a cache of them are still buried here, they were hexigon shape, manufactured by the mint also in $1.00, 25¢ and 50¢ round gold coins. It seems a fact that gold was uncovered here some time before the Coloma strike. It also seems a fact that about 1641 there was a settlement in the hills back of where the town of Rough and Ready is now. situated. It is claimed that they mined gold by a cold process, and old mining tools have been found. GOLD is where you find it and belongs to the man that finds it. That was the rule in Rough and Ready mining towns of

the other Lode. Claim jumpers flourished as did gamblers. Shootings and stabbings Google 19 . ] tion: Were an everyday occurrence, and many a man and one woman ended up wearing a “hemp necktie,” when vigilante justice went into acmostly mob rule. They came by the thousands and ten thousands from all over the world, lured by tales of fortunes made overnight. Their only thoughts were to pick a fortune in gold from "Californy" and go back home. across the plains they came by oxen, horses and mule drawn wagons, and around the Horn, by sail and steam, by ship to Panama across the Isthmus, crossing the charges, then another ship to fabulous California. Soldiers left their regiments and sailors deserted their ships. Sditors closed their print shops and cobblers left their benches, “all for gold." They didn't know that they were building an empire, but they built it. They didn't plan to stay, but who would go back to other places when there were millions of fertile acres to farm in this rich new land? Some made great fortunes panning or sluicing gold, but the forty-niners and those who came after saw California become a great new state in the Union, a new star in the flag, producing more wealth than even the wildest dreams of those brave gold seekers. Gold, a sight for sore eyes and to the pocketbook, yet our present administration buries it again after it is dug up at enormous cost. The gold rush created the State of California, greeted at first with doubt, curious end contempt. Military authorities investigated for themselves. Then gold strike startled the world and started a mass movement. ‘Even with military orders, home ties seemed helpless. President James K. Polk's announcment of gold, created a movement unknown to the world and hastened the stampede. Polk attached Col. Mason's report on conditions in California to his report to Congress, December 5, 1849, Colonel Mason from Montery, was forced (to issue a threat to take military possession of the mining districts if the miners did not seize the deserters. He, also, issued a blast against men who had deserted their families and the Army to go to the gold fields, and threatened to use military force to exclude all unlicensed persons from the gold region. It is desireable to develop the riches and wealth of California, but military safety of the country mst be secured at all hazards, he said. Major Hardie was told that all lawyers, the Circuit Judge, and most of the legislature had gone, and that it seemed likely that the Supreme Judge himself would soon follow. James A, Hardie reported that he had sent to the U.S.Mint, via Adams and Company, express to Philadelphia, $12,000.00 in gold dust, which property was Joseph L. Folsom's, U.S.A. August 13, 1849. ; When flakes of gold were first seen, it was thought to be mica. Colonel Eddy was the first to utilize the Sluice Box in mining, 1850. HYDRAULIC GIANTS Operate under elgnty-frive pounds of pressure, with a six inch nozzle, washing down mountain sides. More than fifty feet high into sluice boxes, two thousands feet long, where gold is removed.