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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)[Sutter] tried to get the lease recorded with General Mason, the American military governor of California. He sent a trusted messenger, a man named Charles Bennett, to Monterey with a pouch of gold and a letter confirming his deal with the Culumahs. Bennett was to tell no one but the governor about the gold. But Bennett stopped off at Benicia on the way to Monterey. At the town's only hotel and tavern, he heard a man talking about coal discoveries in what is now Contra Costa County. Bennett scoffed at coal; opened his pouch. Never mind coal, he said, look at this – and out on the tavern bar he rolled nuggets of pure gold.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)It was in von Pfister's hotel that the first word of the discovery of gold was leaked. Charley Bennett, Sutter's courier, stopped in at the bar on his way to Monterey with news of the gold strike. After a few drinks, he let the cat out of the bag, telling one and all about the gold "in them thar hills."
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