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From:
John Wallace
To:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
Date:
7 March 1852
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/4
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/101
Summary:

Have been surveying mountains in this region of northern California to find better route for completion of our Canal or flume, ten miles from the Stanislaus river. We hiked where “no white man had been... only “Indian trail & the footprints of Grizly [sic] bear and Deer. Found better route for our water, 1500 feet higher up mountain; “a framework of timber will have to be constructed”; we installed a water saw mill at the river, which cuts 10,000 feet of lumber a day. “Our Company...is thought much of in these parts [as] a Great work.” Much water necessary to extract gold, as very little found on surface. Accident with lumber coming down chute unexpectedly and killing a worker; only man that “we had killed on the works.” I had “just time to jump out” of the way.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project