Note 2 — Group III. GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, AND WHAT IT LED TO.

One Vast Gold-Field. Most of the tributaries of the Sacramento and San Joaquin were soon tapped, and search was even made among the sources of these rivers in the belief that gold existed there in virgin masses, from which the particles found lower down had been worn by water. Eager prospectors soon carried exploration from the Trinity in the north, to King's River in the south.