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The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883

Note 3 — Group III. GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, AND WHAT IT LED TO.

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Indians of the Rancherias were employed in large numbers by the whites to wash gold for them. With willow baskets fifty Indians washed out in one week fourteen pounds (avoirdupois) of gold.

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