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From: Sandy <>
Subject: Breage to California
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 01:03:15 -0600

Heads up Californians.....


30 August 1850
Breage to California
A company has been formed in Breage for the purpose of sending parties
to the gold diggings of California. The capital has been all subscribed,
and eight men who are going out have been provided with tents and
working tools. The company is to be managed upon the same principles as
some of our leading mines, and a code of rules and regulations have been
compiled, which appear to meet every requirement. This is the first
company of the kind carried out in Cornwall. A farewell supper was given
at the Star Inn, in Breage church town, on Thursday, when about thirty
sat down to the roast beef of old England. Several parties addressed the
meeting on the state and prospects of the Californian territory, and
after a number of complimentary toasts were drank the meeting separated,
the evening having been spent to the enjoyment of all present.
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Above is from "Life in Cornwall in the Mid 19th Century," edited by R.M.
Barton.
The book consists of extracts of the period (1835-1854) from the
newspaper "The West Briton."

Kind regards,

Sandy
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