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Excerpts from California Mining Journal, our original title, published 50 years ago this month.

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The North Star Mine


Back in the early 1800s, there was a gold mine being dug in a mining community called Garden Valley. Garden Valley is located northeast of Sacramento, between Georgetown and Coloma. They called it Garden Valley because there were some miners who thought there might be more money in growing and selling vegetables than in mining for gold.

Highbanking on the Similkameen River


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