... certain of a good profit and running no risk of what might happen in the future.I had another offer of a number of lots on Stockton street, the next street above the plaza in the heart of the city, ... of gold in less than an hour. The firstminers, when they found gold on the banks of the river, thought if they could only dig in the deep holes of the bed they would find chunks of it, and they ... party to draw off the water and expose the bed of the river, where there wererapids, and they were successful, and the gold had settled down between the crevices of the rocks, and the currents...