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Sailor's Diggings c.1 and c.2

Sailor's Diggins   c.1 and c.2

by Willard and Elsie Street, copyright 1973    ala Wilderville Press, Wilderville, Oregon 97543

authors thanked help from Ernie and Elizabeth Hiller, Willaim J. frainery, Mrs. Hill at Josephine County Library, Glenn Young with old original survey maps, Don Cameron, Wes and Lonnie Hnderson, Alan Clarke Miller, John Valen, Pauline Shier, Mrs. Hardy from Jacksonville museum, Frances Brown, Jim Loughridge, Tim Anderson, Alva Knox, Olga Cameron, Letha Kopsas, Doris Bull Mayhew

Contents:  Early Settlements, Roads and Trails; Sailor's Diggings; Allen C\Gulch; Waldo; French Flat; O'Brin; Brown City; Takilma; Farmers; Gold and Platinum; Mining Methods; Butcher Gulch; Llano de Oro; Chinese Miners

including ad for brewery in Crescent City, Catholic Church News, first County Court, Chinese history including Chinese woman kidnapped, Decker homestead-stre-hotel, Elder store, English-Canadian Co. dredge, Gasquet Road news, Hogue store burns, Indian war news, Logan and Thompson Hotel, Page Creek smelter, platinum, relics of ancient age, shoot out with Wells and Patterson, Twohy Brothers' teams, Jacob Marhoffer story, Wimer and Sons mine-ballroom & skating rink-store

 

Location
979.525 S87 1973 c.1 and c.2
Source Reference
Accession Number
LIB 2015.46.1