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Collection Number: MC343

A firsthand account of the challenges to growing fruit in California in 1870, written by a settler in Amador County named Jesse Mason and sent home to his mother in Vermont. In his letter, Mason details business troubles caused by water quality, droughts, game depletion, heat, and fires while expressing satisfaction that mining operations are drawing to a close in the area.

Finding Aid

Finding Aid on the Online Archive of California

Inclusive Dates

1870 - 0725

Extent

1 letter, 1 envelope

Subject

California History

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