David MOTHER LODE…The Story of California’s Gold Rush by Louis J. Stellman "At some time in history Auburn became known as a health resort. It was high and dry above the hot, humid Sacramento Valley & only an hour's ride after the railroad came. Auburn was rich enough, a decade after the Gold Rush, to vote a $50,000 bonus to the Sacramento, Placer & Nevada Railway-no small sum for a new camp whose mines were not holding up and whose population was only a few thousand. It must have cost each male inhabitant something like fifty dollars, and then the railroad missed Auburn by five miles." Jackie in California [email protected]