Description: SITE OF SUTTER'S SAWMILL In Coloma, at a spot on the American River that the Indians called Culloomah, is a monument of stones, near where James W. Marshall happened to notice flakes of gold while shutting off water to the mill on Jan. 24, 1848. Marshall's discovery was not the first in California but it was the one that spread the lust for gold around the world. Mar- shall's discovery won him little but hard luck. Marshall died in abject poverty on Aug. 10, 1885, and was buried on a hilltop within sight of the spot where he made his find. Nothing is left of the sawmill today. . M.P. Photo-color by Merle Porter PANNING GOLD Gold is usually found in two forms, in veins or lodes; and in river beds or near them where the metal is called alluvial gold. Gold is also found with other elements such as copper, iron but usually with silver. The simplest form of gold mining is panning, which applies to allu- vial gold. The miner shovels sand and gravel that have gold in them into a pan which he tilts slightly and works with a rotation motion. The particles of gold, being the heaviest, sink to the bottom of the pan while the lighter materials are washed away. It was this method, while being wasteful, which was practiced almost entirely during the opening of the great gold fields... M. P. Photo-color by Merle Porter Ships in plastic between cardboard in a stamped envelope
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Number of Items in Set: 2
Size: Standard (5.5 x 3.5 in)
Region: California
Country: USA
City: Coloma
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