APPROXIMATELY FOUR MILES FURTHER UP THE COMSUMNES RIVER,ON JULY 12, 1851, JARED SHELDON, A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF JOHN SUTTER AND HOLDER OF THE ORIGINAL MEXICAN LAND GRANT, RANCHO OMOCHUMNES, WAS CONFRONTED BY A LARGE PARTY OF MINERS WHOSE CLAIMS WERE THREATENED BY A DAM BEING BUILT BY SHELDON.
THE FATALITIES THEN AND ON THE FOLLOWING DAY ENDED THE
JARED SHELDON OF UNDERHILL, VT CALVIN DICKERSON OF BERNAN CO, MI
JAMES M. JOHNSON OF LAN LANCASTER, IA EMANUEL BUSCH OF DESMOINE CO, IA
EDWARD CODY OF FOX RIVER, IL ONE UNNAMED MINER
DEDICATED, JULY 31, 2001,
NEW HELVETIA CHAPTER NO. 5, E CLAMPUS VITUS,
IN COOPERATION WITH DOUGLAS & BARBARA SILVA,
PROPRIETORS OF SILVA’S SHELDON INN.
