Frémont was bitterly disappointed at having been sold what he considered a worthless parcel of land. However, when gold was discovered in placer deposits near his property, Frémont became less bitter. As his grant was a “floating” grant, with its exact boundaries undetermined at the time of making, Frémont quite probably laid claim to some land which wasn’t his in an effort to gain control of the mines. The U.S. Land Commission eventually ordered a survey to determine the exact boundaries of the grant. Allexey W. von Schmidt did the survey during the months of April and May of 1852. Laid out in three sections, the grant (which was for agricultural as well as mineral land) was often referred to as the “Frying Pan Grant” due to the survey’s resemblance to that utensil. The survey also chanced to include a section of the Mother Lode gold belt.