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Book Title: Illustrated History Of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

O'BRIEN'S BRIEF BONANZA.

   On Jamison creek, in 1858, Tim O'Brien was employed in a mining claim
belonging to Nelson Stewart, William Ford, and Simon Cenlin. One day he left
suddenly and very mysteriously, notifying no one of his intended departure. One
circumstance that made his absence look queer was that the company owed him for
two weeks' work, and it generally is a pretty strong incentive that can draw a
man from wages due him. Pap Stewart was both alarmed and suspicious, and started
in pursuit of Tim. The fugitive had stayed all night at Gibsonville, and left
early the next morning in a heavy snow-storm, hiring a man to go with him to
Rabbit creek, to whom he had liberally paid twenty-five dollars for such
service. From there he took the stage to Marysville. When Stewart arrived there,
O'Brien had just left on the stage for Sacramento. Accompanied by an officer,
the pursuit was continued and the stage finally overtaken, upon which the driver
was ordered to halt. At the sight of Stewart the Irishman wilted, and cried out,
"I have it; here it is." At the same time handing over a chunk of pure gold
weighing eighty-one ounces. The officer took the gold, and they went back to
Marysville, where he managed the business so well that the owners never got a
cent of it.


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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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