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Number of California gold diggers...
Number of California gold diggers...
Item # 657629
November 28, 1849
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Nov. 28, 1849
* California Gold Rush
* 49ers - mining - miners
The bottom of page 3 has: "Gold Diggers" with: "...an official report to the War Dept. on the civil affairs of California, Gen. Riley estimates the number of persons actually employed in digging for gold at ten thousand, while the number of persons engaged in other employments at the placers would greatly increase this amount...".
Four pages, very nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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