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Ch. 8: The First Week

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Four miles east of Grass Valley, the banks and gravel slopes of Deer Creek had yielded nobly in 1849. By March, 1850, Deer Creek Dry Diggings grew to be a town of over ten thousand inhabi­tants, and its name had become Nevada City. John Mackay and James Fair were one-time citizens, men whose names live on in the story of the Comstock Lode. George Hearst made a stake there which was the foundation of his fortunes.
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