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Photographer: Merle Porter - Published by Royal Pictures - Colton,Ca
Caption: Sonora, California
Additional Description: 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 produced $160,000 in one day, $500,000 in one week. There are a great number of old mining camps a short distance from Sonora...MP
Submitted: June 30, 2010, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p115249
File Size: 0.435 Megabytes

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