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Edward Vischer Signed Postcard Re: Placerville Hydraulic Mining, 1878 (111981)

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Edward Vischer Signed Postcard Re: Placerville Hydraulic Mining, 1878  (111981)
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Postal card datelined Placerville from Edward Vischer to F.A. Bishop, Esq. dated 1878. The message details a visit by a committee including Jno. O. Earl to investigate the entire canal enterprise. Vischer mentions the "high glee" in those quarters of securing the $10 million investment and an upcoming glance at the hydraulics before a return to the city. Edward Vischer was a San Francisco merchant, but was best known as an artist of California scenes. His account of visits to the Northern and Southern mines is illustrated with sketches showing the methods of mining (Gudde, California Gold Camps). It appears that Vischer had been commissioned to view the canal and the hydraulics and to do two drawings. Nice clear signature by Edward Vischer. Many of the rich placer mines near Placerville were hydraulicked producing $25 million or more. The principal gravel channels around Placerville are described and mapped in Lindgren's "Tertiary Gravels". Hydraulic mining ended in 1884 in California by federal injunction.

Provenance: John Reynolds Collection
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State: California
City/County: El Dorado County
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