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From: Su Jacobsen <>
Subject: [CASANFRA-L] Knight's Ferry Diamond - Hutchings' Mag
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:19:17 -0800

>The following is an extract from a very unsual story:
>
>A late number of the San Joaquin Republican tells a story that would serve
>foundation for a romance.
>
>The story goes that a party of miners were working a clairm with sluice and
>hydraulic pipe and hose, at a point called Buena Vista, nearly opposite
>Knight's Ferry. One night about dark, the popeman saw an object that he had
>washed out of the bank, glittering in a pile of dirt and stones. The gleam
>caused much astonishment to the workmen. The pipeman picked it up to show a
>workman but then dropped it into the sluice and it was born down by the
>torrent of water into the mass of stones and dirt known as "tailings" A
>company of Spiritualists at Knight's Ferry are trying to discover the
>present locality of the jewel, which is represented to be larger than the
>Koh-i-noor.
>
>June, 1860
>
>

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