Oroville – Commonplaces

A Snug Little Fortune

February 12, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Daily Alta California, 12 February 1857 — The value of the real and personal estate of the United States, is reported for the year 1856, by Mr. Secretary Guthric, at $11,317,611,672 — that is over eleven and a quarter billions of dollars. The total population is 26,961,312 souls; and one share for each in Uncle … [Read more…]

Sacramento Daily Union, 10 April 1857

August 10, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Another Narrow Escape. — Oroville escaped narrowly another fire, on Tuesday evening, April 7th, about nine o’clock. The alarm was occa- sioned by the falling of a camphene lamp in a cigar store, kept by a woman of doubtful reputa- tion. The lamp had been carelessly suspended by a string. Photographs and Ambrotypes. — Mr. … [Read more…]