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Rare Oregon Gulch Gold Mining Company 1852 Publication (117740)

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Rare Oregon Gulch Gold Mining Company 1852 Publication   (117740)
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Oregon Gulch Gold Mining Company of Butte County, California, 1852 handwritten publication with Certificate of Organization, followed by over 100 pages of the earliest Directors Meetings Notes and Shareholders Meetings Notes, all written in script handwriting. Printed by Santa Susana Press, California State University, Northridge Libraries in 1976. American Classics Facsimile, Series V; Norman E. Tanis, Series Editor; A U.S.A. Bicentennial Publication . The Oregon Gulch Gold Mining Company was organized in Indiana under President Abrams M. Hendricks and Secretary William Wallace. At the end of this publication are several handwritten statements, receipts and shareholder's lists. This is a very rare, early gold mining archive with information that is often lost to history for many of the smaller, short-lived Western mining operations of the mid 1800s



Most of the gold discovered in Butte County was recovered by placer operations, from small-scale panning to large-scale dredge operations. Gold was discovered in the Feather River, and the camp that was built as a result, grew up to be known as Ophir City. Oroville was the site of the biggest gold deposit and was Northern California's largest Boomtown through the end of the Century. Eventually Placer mining gave way to hydraulic mining, which then gave way to the huge dredges that created their own channels in the river. Oregon City, and the disappeared camp of Oregon Gulch, are both located just north of Oroville.

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Country (if not USA):
State: California
City/County: Butte County
Date: 1852