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On 15 Sep 1994 13:25:49 PST, helfman@aerospace.aero.org (Robert S. Helfman) said:

>> bill.berggren@support.com wrote:
>> : Before the United States took California from Mexico in 1848 era, did the
>> : Federal government know that there was gold in California, and was that the
>> : motivating reason?

> I believe that gold was found in Placerita Canyon, north of L.A., in the
> 1830's. This is the site of the "Oak of the Golden Dream". The story
> is that someone taking a nap under a Live Oak tree dreamt of finding
> gold. When he woke, he indeed found nuggets tangled among the roots.
> There was a minor gold rush associated with the Placerita Canyon
> find. (The name, of course, tells it all: 'placer', Spanish for sandbank, 
> as in gold deposited along a stream-bed. 'Placerita', little placer)
 
Yes, but in any case, the big gold rush wasn't until 1849, as the song
"Clementine" remembers.
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