The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 214
580 there were vague rumors of gold inwhat is now California. Loyola Cavello, thepriest of San Jose, saw placer gold there, andtells of it in his book written in 1690. In thenext century, Antonio Alcedo speaks of lumpsof California gold weighing from five to eightpounds. But though its presence was… … THE CRADLE USED BY MINERS IN WASHING OUT GOLD. The first gold discovery in the American colo-nies was in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, in1799; and up to 1827 that State was the onlygold-producer in the Union. In 1824 CabarrusCounty sent the first American gold to the mintin Philadelphia. The…
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