Diamond Springs
Old Placerville (Hangtown)
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October 6, 1853
Dutch Bar El Dorado Co
With respect to a Fathers (?) and in answer to yours of the 16 _ improve this opertunity also to inform you that I enjoy good health and am at work on the middle fork of the American River times has ben very dull this summer there has not ben much (?) ___ mining done in dry digens they did not get in the rivers until the middle of Sept some ar doing well while others ar not making wages so not thing (?) of the expense of flooming (?)and and putting in their pumps The river is flooded over three miles here the best clames? ar in poverty and ____ a bar (?) they work them night an day There has not ben very heavy emigration here this season the most went to oragon a great many cattle and sheep drove acrost this season most of them pas (?) ____ Dimans (Diamond) spring an Hangtown in ___ ___ of those places wages ar from thirty to forty Dolars a month
The three towns mentioned here are Dutch Bar, Hangtown, and Diamond Spring. They are all near Coloma, where gold was discovered in 1848. Dutch Bar is about seven miles west of Coloma. Hangtown is nine miles southeast of Coloma, and Diamond Spring is about three miles south of Hangtown (Placerville). It is difficult to tell from the writing if the person who wrote this letter is the same person mentioned as being with Stephen in his letter of March 1, 1850 to his wife.
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