California gold book : first nugget, its discovery and discoverers, and some of the results proceeding therefrom . in akettle of soap and tested it. Marshall afterward took it toFort Sutter and had it tested with acids, and it proved tobe gold. That the nugget now in the possession of W. is the identical nugget thus discovered and testedby us, and has been preserved by Mrs. E. J. Wimmer as arelic of the great discovery, and is still her property. Peter L. and sworn to, before me, this 18th day ofApril, 1885. A. J. of the Peace of said county and
California gold book : first nugget, its discovery and discoverers, and some of the results proceeding therefrom . in akettle of soap and tested it. Marshall afterward took it toFort Sutter and had it tested with acids, and it proved tobe gold. That the nugget now in the possession of W. is the identical nugget thus discovered and testedby us, and has been preserved by Mrs. E. J. Wimmer as arelic of the great discovery, and is still her property. Peter L. and sworn to, before me, this 18th day ofApril, 1885. A. J. of the Peace of said county and California Gold Book asserts that January 19,1848, was the date upon which the great discovery of gold mTRODUCTORY. t in Cali-fornia was made, because: First, for the reasonthat that was the date given by Peter L. and ElizabethJane Wimmer; and was the only date mentioned by JamesW. Marshall in the conversations W. W. Allen had withhim in regard to this matter. If more testimony is neededit is supplied by the following autograph card which Mar-shall distributed among his friends and the curious: AUTOGRAPH OF.
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