Beschreibung:

Property from the Eric C. Caren Collection(GOLD RUSH)Manuscript Gold Rush map, being a survey for the adjoining plots of land belonging to H.H.Watson and A.J. Polhill, Placer County, California, 1852 2 pages on a single ruled sheet (17 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.; 438 x 275 mm). Manuscript document with map, dated variously between 4-24 September 1852, and signed by H.H. Watson, A.J. Polhill, and others; a few stains, some marginal chipping and fold separations, some tape-repaired. The consignor has independently obtained a letter of authenticity from PSA that will accompany the lot. "Survey for H.H. Watson and A.J. Polhill laying near [?ville] bounded as described in the annex plot commencing point as the S.W. corner of J.H. Hancock survey..." In the present survey, the tracts of land being issued to Watson and Polhill are bounded on the right by the Volcano Mining Company Ditch and Volcano Canion [sic], with the Todds [sic] Valley Company Ditch running through each plot. The Volcano Gold Gravel Mining Company was one of the most extensive gravel mines during the Gold Rush, and hundreds of acres of valuable mining lands were drained by its enterprises. Placer County falls in both the Sacramento Valley and Sierra Nevada regions, in what is known as the Gold Country. The discovery of gold in this region in 1848 brought tens of thousands of miners from around the world, and thousands more settled in the area to provide goods and services to them. The name "Placer" is taken from the Spanish word for gravel or sand deposits containing gold.