Ch. 8: The First Week

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	As early as the summer of 1848, Rich Dry Diggings across the North Fork of the American River was yielding eight hundred to fifteen thousand dollars a day per man to the fortunate gold-seekers who settled there. Some poetically-minded veteran of the trails was moved by the beauty of the view to give the place a new name, and so it became Auburn. By 1852, a series of flumes had been built to bring water to claims which no longer yielded, and a second time of prosperity came to Auburn.

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