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SONORA, CALIFORNIA
SONORA is the county seat of Tuolumne. In
1848 this was a small camp settled by Mexicans
from the state of Sonora. In June 1850 a tax of
$20.00 was imposed on foreign-born miners.
Mexicans and Chileans left the new town and
went to Columbia where they hit it rich. The
richest pocket mine was the Big Bonanza when
three partners, who had acquired the mine at
little cost in the 1870's, hit a deposit that pro-
duced $160,000 in one day, $500,000 in one
week. There are a great number of old mining
camps a short distance from Sonora. . M.P.
Photo-color by Merle Porter
C & published by Royal Pictures-Colton, California
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