The State - News from Aug. 5, 1987

El Dorado County officials designated a five-ton, gold-bearing rock as California’s contribution to a monument commemorating the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution. The rock was donated by the owner of property about five miles downstream from Sutter’s Mill on the American River, where gold was discovered in 1848. Ray Kabaker, a spokesman for the nonprofit California Bicentennial Foundation, said the rock will be sent to Philadelphia and cut into a 1,000-pound slab to be fitted with those of other states into a permanent monument to the U.S. Constitution.