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1863 Cherokee, California Billhead for Gold Dust Buyer

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Mining Start Price:60.00 USD Estimated At:120.00 - 250.00 USD
1863 Cherokee, California Billhead for Gold Dust Buyer
SOLD
95.00USD+ (23.75) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2018 Mar 16 @ 16:26UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Extra rare gold buyer. Issued to Mr. John Ryan for the balance of $10.72 in gold dust. Light blue paper "Gold Dust Bought. Quicksilver For Sale, by the Pound or Flask" in upper left corner. There were at least two towns named Cherokee in the California Gold Rush region. 1) Cherokee was a gold camp in Butte County. A town was established there by 1850 or earlier. It was ten miles north of Oroville and was a fairly large town at the time this billhead was issued. 2) Nevada County: Cherokee is on Shady Creek, three miles east of North San Juan. Recorded on Trask's map in 1853. Prospected by Cherokee Indians in 1850 and in 1852 the Grizzly Ditch bought water from Bloody Run and Grizzly Canyon. It was reported that companies could make $50 a day to the hand. Hutchings found it "a small dried up place with few people and those not far from broke". In 1861 it was called almost dead by the mining press, but listed by Bean as a sizeable town. The post office was established in 1855 and was named Patterson but most continued to dateline Cherokee. [Ref: Gudde, California Gold Camps, p. 68]. Some light bleaching at left and heavy center crease. Otherwise Very Good condition Date: Location: Cherokee, California HWAC# 55546