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Sale 71: The Sescal Sale

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Lot 1003

Eight Scenes of Mining Life and a View of the Elephant (Baird 293), published and sold by [William B.] Cooke & [Josiah J.] LeCount, San Francisco book sellers and stationers, trimmed gray lithograph 10.25x7.75", with one page miner's letter that reads in part: "Gray Eagle Sity, October 3, 1852. Mr. William Cairns…You informed me that you received the gold dust I sent you which is the first I have heard from you or the dust since I sent it…mi minig operation they have been discouraging. I have fumed the river and have not got a dime. I have been engaged the past summer in the eureka bar… we have burned about 1400 feet at a cost of 1500 dollars besides the labour of 25 mn since the first of may…which has proved a totel failure…there is about 3 miles of flume all joined commencing at the great horseshoe…I understand the miners have been more successful further down the river…Gray eagle sity is on the middle fork of the American river about 4 miles above the big bage…"; file folds and toning, Fine.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $600

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