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A hundred tons of gold.

--During the past year there were received at San Francisco forty-nine millions of dollars in gold. This amount of the precious metal would weigh a hundred tons, and would make the freight of a train of fourteen cars on a railroad.

The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 6, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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