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Sam writes home nothing about Orion’s victory but instead of how popular he is in CA – the state he just called wretched, he now calls paradise.

The Gould and Curry hit the ledge with a 430 foot tunnel below A Street. A $10,000 lump of silver was blasted by one load. The quality was passable but the papers, TE and Gold Hill Union conspired to puff it up. It boomed and the mining company quickly raised huge capital for two mills. […]

“the work is unhealthy, the ‘climate despicable, living enor- mously high, the whisky, like the citizens, nearly lightning, and the water at least forty degrees worse than the washings of an apothecary shop.