1863 Gold find in Mariposa County CA by N.S. STOCKTON and George BUFFUM
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>TUESDAY, 24 MAR 1863<<
MINING at HORNITOS -- At Hornitos on the 21st instant N.S. STOCKTON and George BUFFUM found a quartz boulder weighing 40 pounds, from which they extracted $400 in gold. A few days preceding, a party of Germans and Mexicans found several similar boulders from which they obtained some thousands of dollars.