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" GOL'D!!! —while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pick-axes, and the means of transportation to the spot where one man obtained one hundred and twenty-eight dollars' worth... "
The Golden State: A History of the Region West of the Rocky Mountains ... - Page 256
by Rolander Guy McClellan - 1875 - 711 pages
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The Annals of San Francisco: Containing a Summary of the History of ...

Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, Jim Nisbet - 1855 - 860 pages
...planted, the house half built, and every thing neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes, and the means of transportation to the spot where...average for all concerned is twenty dollars per diem ! " On the 14th of June the " California Star " likewise ceased. In the explanatory fly-sheet, the...
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Our Whole Country: Or, The Past and Present of the United States ..., Volume 2

John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 748 pages
...transportation to the spot where one man obtained one hundred and twenty-eight dollars' worth of the real staff in one day's washing, and the average for all concerned is twenty dollars per diem I " Within the first eight weeks after the "diggings" had been fairly known, two hundred and fifty...
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The Loyal West in the Times of the Rebellion: Also, Before and Since: Being ...

John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1865 - 778 pages
...planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pick-axes, and the means of transportation to the spot where...average for all concerned is twenty dollars per diem!'' 1 Within the first eight weeks after the " diggings " had been fairly known, two hundred and fifty...
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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury Transmitting Report Upon the ...

United States. Department of the Treasury, John Ross Browne - 1867 - 326 pages
...cry of gold! gold ! gold! while the field is left half planted, the house half built, ancl everything neglected but the manufacture of picks and shovels,...average for all concerned is twenty dollars per diem." The towns and farms were deserted, or left to the care of women and children, while rancheros, wood-choppers,...
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Reports Upon the Mineral Resources of the United States

John Ross Browne, James Wickes Taylor - 1867 - 374 pages
...! gold ! gold! while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything ueglected but the manufacture of picks and shovels, and the...average for all concerned is twenty dollars per diem." The towns and farms were deserted, or left to the care of women and children, while rancheros, wood-choppers,...
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All the Western States and Territories, from the Alleghanies to the Pacific ...

John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1867 - 708 pages
...planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pick-axes, and the means of transportation to the spot where...average for all concerned is twenty dollars per diem /' Within the first eight weeks after the "diggings" had been fairly known, two hundred and fifty thousand...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 7

United States. Congress. House - 1867 - 780 pages
...the means of transportation to the spot where one man obtained one hundred and twenty-eight dollar's worth of the real stuff in one day's washing ; and...average for all concerned is twenty dollars per diem." The towns and farms were deserted, or left to the care of women and children, while rancheros, wood...
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The History of the Great Republic: Considered from a Christian Stand-point

Jesse Truesdell Peck - 1868 - 774 pages
...manufacture of picks and shovels, and the means of transportation to the spot, where one man obtained a hundred and twenty-eight dollars' worth of the real...for all concerned is twenty dollars per diem." From this the excitement spread abroad through every part of the United States and in foreign countries;...
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Underground Life; Or, Mines and Miners

Louis Simonin - 1869 - 684 pages
...cry of gold! gold! gold! while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of picks and shovels,...average for all concerned is twenty dollars per diem." The towns and farms were deserted, or left to the care of women and children, while rancheros, wood-choppers,...
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THE GREAT REPUBLIC: BEING A FULL AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN UNION

JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 pages
...manufacture of shovels and pick-axes, and the means of transportation to the spot where one man obtained $128 worth of the real .stuff in one day's washing, and the average for all concerned is twtnty dollars per diem.' 1 ' ' Within the first eight weeks after the "diggings" had been fairly known,...
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