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The district of Soulsbyville is located in west central Tuolumne County in the common surrounding area of the towns of Soulsbyville and Tuolumne. It additionally includes the areas of Arrastraville and Buchanan.
The district of Soulsbyville was placer mined through the gold rush. Lode mining started at the beginning of the 1850s, and there was a rush to the district that initiated in 1858 after Ben Soulsby revealed there were rich ores. The mines were worked on a great amount until around 1915. There was some activity throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and there has been small prospecting and advance in some of the mines ever since. This at one time was the most productive district in the Sierra Nevada east gold belt, with a whole output value to be as a minimum of $20 million dollars.
Tioga
Not much production is obtained in the Tioga pass area and prospecting will most likely not be very successful in this area.
Toulumne
Tuolumne County is one of the counties in the Mother Lode, and it is located in central California between Calaveras County on the north and Mariposa County on the south.
In the 1850's the gold rush prospectors and fortune hunters went through the entire Mother Lode country. Before long they found the gold placers of Tuolumne County, which developed into the most prosperous in California.
For the duration of 1850 to 1870 this county was one of the most important gold producers in the state. At least $151,175,000 (around 7,338,600 ounces) of placer gold was produced prior to 1899, generally from the Tertiary and Quaternary gravels in the Columbia Basin and the Table Mountain channel in the Jamestown-Sonora area.
Tuttletown
Tuttletown did not start out with this name. The first prospectors to mine this area were a group of Mormons in 1848. After discovering a good quantity of gold in the streams in this area, they decided it would be convenient to settle down here, and their camp was then known as Mormon Gulch. Judge Anson A. H. Tuttle got to the camp one autumn and constructed the first log cabin in the area. The placers in this area kept on providing well enough for a good amount of time.
There was a letter dated on December 10 of 1849 that talks about the fact that five men obtained forty pounds of gold here in a matter of just five days. As the camp developed and flourished, the residents decided they needed a new name for their town. Somehow it was suggested that it be named Tuttletown, in honor of the camp’s most renowned citizen, and so the place was then called Tuttletown. When gold could not longer be found in this area the camp disappeared. Tuttletown is located on Highway 49.
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