Word: coloma
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...tell it, in his own yellow manuscript: "Mr. Marshall of New Jersey, my carpenter. . . . was working on a new sawpit at Coloma, in the mountains, about 18 hours' journey from the fort. . . . It was a rainy afternoon. . . . Suddenly Mr. Marshall burst into the room, he was soaking wet. . . . a piece of cotton from his pocket ... a lump of yellowish metal. . . . Then I read an article in the Encyclopedia Americana. I told Marshall then that his metal was pure gold in the virgin state. . . ." But the news...
...paper in the California series appears as usual and in it a description of a Sunday in Coloma is given, a picture which gives prominence to the rougher life of mines,- the auctioneering, racing, gambling, thimble-rigging, etc. The usual sheaf of short stories charmingly told, and poems delicate in flavor is not wanting...