Английская Википедия:Germansen River

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The Germansen River, formerly Germansen Creek, is a major south tributary of the Omenica River in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.[1] The settlement and former gold-rush centre of Germansens Landing is located at its confluence with the Omineca.[1] Along its course is Germansen Lake[2] at Шаблон:Coord, south of which is the Germansen Range[3] and Mount Germansen.[4]

Name origin

All "Germansen" placenames were named for James Germansen, of St. Paul, Minnesota, who first discovered gold deposits here in 1870, during the Omineca Gold Rush.[1]

Gold placer earnings

The first reported earnings from the benches along Germansen Creek were a little over a year after James Germansen's first strike, with $10,000 reported in the last week of August, 1871. By the end of that season in October, a total of $400,000 by Peter O'Reilly, who was then Gold Commissioner for the Cariboo Mining Division. Earnings waned from that point, with $80,000 being reported for Germansen and Manson Creeks for the season in 1874 and $32,000 being reported for 1875. By 1876, the mining district was "almost deserted".[5]

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