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In 1851, he sailed by clipper around the Horn to California and worked eight years in placer gold fields in Sierra County without much success. In 1859, he went to Virginia City, Nevada, site of the recently discovered Comstock Lode, and there began work at $4 a day laboring in a mine by day and working his own small claims in his spare time.
Jun 6, 2018 · When Mackay sailed from New York en route to California in 1851, he had no name, no money, and not a single influential friend on earth. He’d possessed nothing but strong arms, a clear head,...
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John W. Mackay, an Irish immigrant, became the most powerful figure on the famous Comstock Lode. In August of 1859, when the news rang out, “There’s Silver in Washoe!” Mackay left the placer mines of California and joined the rush to the Comstock silver.
Jun 28, 2018 · In 1872, John Mackay and his three partners invested everything they’d “raised” from their previous mining ventures in the Consolidated Virginia mine. In the early days, it had yielded some...
At a young age Mackay left school to work, needing to support his mother and sister. Perhaps for this reason, Mackay headed west to the gold fields in California in 1851. Like many miners during the time, Mackay worked in the mines, but did not strike it rich.
John joined the "49ers" in the rush to the California gold fields by sailing around the Horn in 1851. Mackay worked the placer diggings along the Mother Lode and arrived on the Comstock as a prospector.
May 18, 2018 · Caught up in the gold fever then sweeping the nation, Mackay went to California in 1851. For 8 years Mackay labored in the diggings along the Yuba and American rivers and in the Sierra Nevada foothills. In 1860 he joined the miners going to test their luck in the new mines of the Comstock Lode in Nevada.
