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Gold excitement at Victoria.

San Francisco, December 4.
--The steamer Pacific has arrived. There is great excitement at Victoria over the reported discovery of rich placers at Big Bend. The largest nugget yet found was worth four thousand dollars. One man took out eight hundred dollars in one day. Three hundred dollars a day was common.

The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1865. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 9, 1865. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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