Sixteen months at the gold diggingsWoods, Daniel B.
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Sixteen months at the gold diggings
Woods, Daniel B.
California -- Description and travel; California -- Gold discoveries; Frontier and pioneer life -- California
Number of days’ work put on by each member, 120.
Name of treasurer, Wm. Canfield, New York.
Name of secretary, John F. Sullivan, Baltimore.
No. 3.
_Items of the Third Bar Company, Tuolumne River._
Organized 25th July, 1850.
Number of members, private, 6.
J. W. Morrel, president.
C. Powell, secretary and treasurer.
Number of members, aggregate, 8.
Number of Mexicans employed, average, 60.
Number of days’ labor, 4260.
Length of canal, 730 yards.
Length of dam, 88 yards.
Cost of labor for day, $5 each Mexican.
Cost of labor, and other expenses, to complete the job, $239 48.
Amount of gold and other valuables obtained from the above labor, 00.
No. 4.
_Philadelphia Company._
5 members; 210 days; amount of gold, 00.
No. 5.
_Extension Company._
12 members; 1100 days.
Amount, $2250.
Average for day, $2 04.
No. 6.
_Hawkins’s Bar Company._
N. Kingsley, president; John Richardson, secretary; Geo. Goodhart,
treasurer.
108 members.
Time of labor, 7776 days.
Amount of gold, $35,500.
Average for day, $4 56.
No. 7.
_Ficket Company._
Robert Armstrong, treasurer.
14 members; 434 days.
Amount made, $4368.
Average for day, $10 06.
No. 8.
_Payne’s Bar Company._
20 members; 1820 days; amount, $6792.
Average for day, $3 73.
No. 9.
_Grisly Company._
Geo. Buttress, president; D. F. Smyers, secretary and treasurer.
10 members; largest day’s work, $2600.
Time of labor, 540 days.
Amount, $11,000.
Average for day, $20 37.
No. 10.
_Wild Yankee Company._
15 members; time, 450 days; amount, $4000.
Average for day, $8 88.
No. 11.
_Jacksonville Company._
Thos. Sayre, president; G. N. Harris, secretary; Geo. Somers, treasurer.
50 members; time of labor, 10,000 days.
Amount taken out, $10,900.
Average for day, $1 09.
No. 12.
_Extension Company._
20 members; time, 720 days; avails, 00.
No. 13.
_York Bar Company._
20 members; 714 days; avails, 00.
No. 14.
_Hart’s Bar Company._
Thos. S. Hotchkiss, president; Daniel B. Woods, secretary and treasurer.
Number of members, 21.
Largest day’s work, $4198.
Number of days’ labor, 1938.
Total amount, $17,123.
Average per day, $8 83.
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Number of members in these fourteen companies, 344.
Total number of days’ labor, 35,876, or 114 years of 313 working days
each.
Total amount taken out, $113,633.
Average for each day’s labor, $3 16.
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