Lot
154 
Sacramento City, Cal. (Sacramento). Black cds (Williams SAC-2520) on buff cover with matching "10" rate handstamp to Pennsylvania, cover with original enclosure datelined "Hoogas Diggings, April 10th 1853" (an El Dorado mining camp, but never a Post Office), miner's letter with fine contents, "My Partners and I are living well. We are taking out () of gold all () gold. Mr. Woodfill found a piece about a week ago that weighed 3 pounds and one ounce of pure gold. We are prospecting a slide on the River and if it hits the way all other Slides, our piles are made as some of them get 1000$ to one from full of dirt. That is 2 gallon of dirt if we get one ounce to a pan our pile is made, but I would not advise anybody to come out as it is a dangerous route to travel through South America…As soon as I get my pile of gold, I will come home. I have set my pile of gold at one hundred & 20 pounds and as soon as I get it, I shall bid adieu to California. We have got six pounds already.", cover age stain, F.-V.F. Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $450