Mr. Ford suggested to Henry Clifford and Q. David Bowers that J.A. King was probably to be identified with the well known James King of William but the present others may feel that he might just as well have been one of the several other James Kings living in San Francisco in the early 1850s whose apparent ubiquity caused the best known of them to append by distinction "of Wm." or "William" to his name. We note that a half ounce slug made of "pure gold" would have been an extreme curiosity in San Francisco at the time.