Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CALIFORNIA.) Stockton Times and Tualumne City Intelligencer. 8 pages, 12 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches; disbound. Stockton, CA, 22 June 1850
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Volume I, issue 15 of this early newspaper from gold-mining country. Includes a widely cited report on a steep tax on foreign miners: "Columbia (recently so thickly peopled) is now utterly deserted by the miner, and we found the storekeeper sighing away his time." Also a long account of a Frenchman who had been murdered for a small bag of gold dust, and an account of a major fire in San Francisco. Streeter sale V:2653 (issue 2); Wagner, California Imprints 55.