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Rhodes Weaverville Checks, c 1854 87463

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 300.00 USD
Rhodes  Weaverville Checks, c 1854  87463
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This item SOLD at 2019 Oct 05 @ 12:55UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Lot of three checks/drafts. Includes two Rhodes & Co and a rarer Rhodes & Lusk's Banking House. Weaverville, California. 1853-1855 to be paid at the Rhodes & Co. office in Shasta. Two are pictorial. All are signed by F.W. Blake as agent. Blake is perhaps better known for his dealings in Weaverville, Unionville and Silver City, but he also became an assayer. He came to California with his cousin Gorham Blake in 1852 on board the steamer Constitution. The pair were the same age, born and raised in Boston. Francis Blake immediately went to work for Rhodes & Lusk in Weaverville as an express agent. There he quickly learned the gold business as the Trinity-Shasta region was very rich. In 1861, he went to Nevada ending up in Unionville as an assayer until 1866 when he went to Silver City, ID and set up another assay business. The rich gold deposits at Weaverville, located in Trinity County, was first discovered in 1850. Carr describes a lynching and scalping of three white men who had stolen the mules of a pack train. He also describes the battle between the Hong Kongs and the Cantons, two rival Chinese companies. According to other accounts, the Chinese population in 1854 was 1,000. There was also the incredible story that in 1851, six miners dug by hand a shaft more than 700 feet deep and five feet in diameter, the deepest "coyote hole" ever made! [Ref: Gudde] City: Weaverville State: California Date: 1853-1855