Kathy... MOTHER LODE The Story of Californias Gold Rush by Louis J. Stellman written 1934. Dead Man's Bar "Horace Davenport of Rattlesnake disputed the judgeship of H. Fitzsimmons of Dead Man's Bar, but without success." Melville Atwood "Johnny Stone gave Ott some of his ore and the rest he took to Melville Atwood of Grass Valley, another good man. It was check & double check for Stone. No fooling. If J.J. Ott signed your report it was final." John Mackay Jamie Fair, whose wife Tessie took in washing at Shaw's Flat to help him out....Jack Flood & Bill O'Brien.."pooled their savings and took in John W. Mackay, another Irishman. After that Tessie Fair didn't have to bother about budgets. The four partners made money faster than they could spend it. Fair was elected to the United States Senate and built a mansion where the Fairmont Hotel now stands. Flood started a bank in San Francisco and tried to corner the wheat market. Mackay helped James Gordon Bennett lay transatlantic cables." Jackie in California [email protected]