Redwood History Basic Data

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1. Alta California, July 1, 3, 7, 1850; Harry L. Wells, History of Siskiyou County, California . . . (Oakland, 1881), p. 57.

2. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte, p. 137.

3. Wells, History of Siskiyou County, p. 62.

4. Ibid., pp. 62-63.

5. Ibid., p. 63; Coy, The Humboldt Bay Region, p. 50.

6. McBeth, Lower Klamath Country, p. 22.

7. Alta California, Jan. 9, 1851.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. Wells, History of Siskiyou County, p. 63; Coy, The Humboldt Bay Region, pp. 50-51. In the period December through March, 28 vessels cleared San Francisco bound for Trinidad or the Gold Bluffs. Coy, The Humboldt Bay Region, p. 121.

12. Crook, Autobiography, pp. 11-12.

13. Alta California, Oct. 20, 1864.

14. Alta California, June 2, 1873.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid., Nov. 29, 1873.

18. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte, pp. 138-139.

19. Ibid., p. 138; Thornbury, California's Redwood Wonderland, pp. 129-30.

20. Bledsoe, History of Del Norte, p. 138. When the auriferous sands were washed with sluices, the gold caught in riffles sawed in a plank salted with mercury. Ibid., p. 137.

21. Elliott, History of Humboldt County, p. 150.

22. Ibid., p. 151.

23. Great Register of Humboldt County, 1890 (Eureka, 1890).

24. Thornbury, California's Redwood Wonderland, p. 129-130.

25. Ibid., 130.; Bledsoe, History of Del Norte, pp. 137-138. The best strike was near the Upper Bluff.