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From: Su Jacobsen <>
Subject: [CASANFRA-L] Mariposa - Hutchings' Magazine
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:25:34 -0800

>The following is extracted from Hutchings' California Magazine of November
1856:
>
>Mariposa is the southernly of all the mining towns of importance in the
>State. Although it has suffered more, perhaps, than any other mining
>district for the want of water for mining purposes, owing to its quartz
>leads and rich flat, gulch, and hill diggings, it has generally been
>prosperous; and being the county seat, as well as the trading centre of
>numerous small camps around, its streets at certain seasons of hte year
>present a very lively appearance. Two ably edited and spirited papers are
>issued weekly; the Mariposa Gazette and the Mariposa Star.
>
>The population is about 1300, or about 1/7 of the entire county. It is here
>the celebrated Fremont Grant is located.
>
>Being an excellent starting point on the Yo-Semite valley and the Mariposa
>Grove of mammoth trees, it is likely to become a place famous for history
>and the not boos of travelers. The neat and tastefully cultivated gardens
>in the vicinity, give an air of freshness and home-like brightness that some
>other places we might mention, would do well to imitate. The distance from
>Stockton to Mariposa is 91 miles, and the rod good, upon which a line of
>stages is running daily.
>
>Extracted by Su Jacobsen
>
>

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