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Miner's Daughter Passenger Receipt, SS Central America Treasure. [143191]

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Miner's Daughter Passenger Receipt, SS Central America Treasure. [143191]
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Passenger receipt for Elizabeth M. Smith, daughter of a miner at Don Pedro's Bar in Tuolumne County. First cabin, thus her father may have done well in gold mining. Newspaper reports of Ms. Smith tell the tale of her being the daughter of a Don Pedro Bar miner. Don Pedro Bar was on the Tuolumne River, named for Pierre Sainsevain, an early Californian who mined at Sutters Mill and Mormon island. By July, he and others had found gold on the Tuolumne River and named it with Sainsevain's Spanish "nickname" he got after he arrived in 1839. Most of the mining at Don Pedro Bar consisted of teams or families acting in harmony as a group. Don Pedro's Bar appears to have been mined out by the time J Ross Browne visited it in 1867, though the town still existed as a small freight center. It should be noted here that the history of Don Pedro's Bar is .somewhat overshadowed by Sonora and Columbia. The southern Mother Lode region was tremendously rich, and large scale placers, such as Don Pedro's Bar soon were somewhat exhausted giving way to placer mining on tributaries of the Tuolumne River and exceptionally rich lode mines that were found relatively quickly after about 1851.
Smith had been going east to visit her brothers, then probably returned to California. Whether her brothers ever came west, we may never know.

Provenance: SS Central America Collection