Without a will specifying how the estate was to be divided, Jacoba Feliz, Antonio's second wife who remarried after his death, filed a lawsuit to claim part of the land, which was the site the first recorded discovery of gold in California, sparking a minor gold rush in 1842, six years before the more famous California Gold Rush.
Its success kicked off a minor land rush in the area.
The discovery of gold along the Trinity River in 1850 led to a minor secondary rush in California.
The miners logged redwoods for building; when this minor gold rush ended, some of them turned again to logging, cutting down the giant redwood trees.
The northern portion of that area, originally inhabited by Native Americans, attracted many lumbermen and others turned gold miners when a minor gold rush brought them to the region.
The Emerson played the lyrical elements with great beauty, although the Presto of the C sharp minor was rushed and roughed up to the point of unintelligibility.
Later, minor gold rushes at both Moruya and the Wagonga district resulted in their inclusion, and other ports were to include Bermagui, Eden, Narooma and Tathra.
Had it started earlier, the match would have been over long before the minor storm that rushed up the eastern seaboard.
We should not now rush into minor changes which, while they might take the heat off home secretaries, would not solve the problems thrown up by his case.
The stutters that occasionally enter his speech are minor obstacles that he rushes right over, and they feed this 90-minute show's air of theatrical urgency.
