[email protected] wrote: > > Howdy, > As a Northern Mines finale, our 49er Howard C. GARDINER writes > > COTTAGE HOME: > "...Continuing my journey(June, 1852 - between French Camp & Swett's > Bar on the Tuolumne?), I traveled slowly, and at night put up at the COTTAGE > HOME. This was decidedly the most comfortable hostelry I had seen in > California. ======== Hi Bob, here is further on Swetts Bar from Gudde_California Gold Camps_: SWETTS BAR (Tuolumne) On The Tuolomne River, above Don Pedro Bar, between Hawkins and Indian bars. It is shown on Trask's map, 1857. For some time the camp on the left bank was called Fraziers Flat. Mulford mined here in the late 1850's and tells the story in one of his sketches, "Swetts Barr" (Chaper 12 in his Story) GARDINER! visited here in 1851, and the folowing summer he mined here briefly without success, then engaged in truck gardening, and later located claims along the river and sold them to Chinese miners (p.175). There is no evidence that the place was named for John SWETT, who later became California State Superintendent of Public Instruction -: !!(1863-1867). Swett did make an attempt at mine in Butte County, according to his sketchy diary reprinted in CHSQ,XXIII,pp.289ff. Bob, does the diary tell anything of GARDINERs attempt at truck gardening?? Have fun, Carolyn