Lot
167 
San Francisco, Cal./40 (San Francisco). Red integral rate cds (Williams SAF-290) on 1850 folded letter to New York, datelined "Marysville, June 23, 1850", interesting miner's letter regarding the establishment of a General Store on the South Fork of the Feather River, mining, "…there was a man at work on the South Fork of Feather River about six miles above our store at a place known as Stoney Point, well one day he took out in one pan full of dirt - $2202.50 - now was not that a pretty good days work? …but such diggins are scarce, such pans full are few and far between. I will tell just one more there is a place known as gold run on Deer Creek, a branch of the Yuba, from which one company of four for several days in succession took eleven pounds…", Fine. Estimate $150 - 200.
Realized: $300