California mines and minerals . igh Sierras, have sofar operated against this district. It is an undisputed fact that the placer ground of Tuolumne wasthe richest ever found. While the rivers, creeks, and gulches wererich in comparison to similar ground elsewhere, the limestone beltfar exceeded any other locality in the yield of gold. Nowhere have MINING IN TUOLUMNE COUNTY 357 there been found so many large nuggets within such a limited few of the most notable finds are as follows: In 1848, a seventy-five-pound nugget was found in Woods Creek; a fifty-pound nugget,worth $8,500, was foun
California mines and minerals . igh Sierras, have sofar operated against this district. It is an undisputed fact that the placer ground of Tuolumne wasthe richest ever found. While the rivers, creeks, and gulches wererich in comparison to similar ground elsewhere, the limestone beltfar exceeded any other locality in the yield of gold. Nowhere have MINING IN TUOLUMNE COUNTY 357 there been found so many large nuggets within such a limited few of the most notable finds are as follows: In 1848, a seventy-five-pound nugget was found in Woods Creek; a fifty-pound nugget,worth $8,500, was found half a mile east of Columbia; a $5,000nugget was found at Holdens Garden, in 1851; a $7,000 nugget wasfound at Gold Hill, in 1859; a thirty-five-pound nugget was found inthe streets of Sonora, in 1850; a mass of quartz and gold was foundat Holdens Garden, which sold for $30,000; a seventy-two-poundnugget was found at Columbia, in 1854; a nugget worth $2,750, wasfound at Martinez, in 1853; a twenty-three-pound nugget was found. In the Limestone Belt of Tuolumne County. at Pine Gulch, in 1854; a sixty-six-pound nugget was found nearColumbia; a $2,000 nugget was found at American Camp; a 450-ounce nugget, worth $6,750, was found at Columbia; a twenty-three-pound nugget was found at Woods Diggings; a twenty-eight-poundnugget was found at Sonora, in 1850; a thirty-three and a half poundnugget was found in Columbia, in 1854. The above list will give some idea of the richness of the groundin coarse gold. The following list is an estimate of what each local-ity has produced. These figures give only the actual amount sentfrom the districts by express companies. They do not representanywhere near the amount yielded, because millions were taken fromthe county of which there is no record. 358 CALIFORNIA MINES AND MINERALS Columbia and Si)ringfield, $55,000,000; (lol(ls])rini>-s and NiggerGulch, $7,500,000: Yankee Hill and Knickerbocker Flat, $3,500,000;Mormon Creek, $2,225,000; Pine L
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