GHOST TOWN
LOST TREASURE LEGENDS
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Butler’s Forgotten Gold Caches
by
Gary B. Speck
NOTE: This information
is quoted DIRECTLY
from the 1881 edition of Thompson & West’s History of Amador County,
CA. I have edited very slightly for
content, as a number of derogatory and inflammatory terms for fellow Americans
are used in the original, printed 120 years ago. Otherwise this is posted exactly as it was
originally printed 120 years ago.
“THE BUTLER CLAIM was
situated at the foot of the deep gorge which came out of the mountains, and was
first owned by a party of African-American Miners. The river was dammed and turned as usual in
river claims. The channel was straight
and smooth and offered no holding-place for the gold, and all of the party
except
That last
section holds the key
“He was taken
sick with fever and shortly died. It was
known by his friends that he had some eighty thousand dollars on deposit at Mokelumne Hill, (and) much more at
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