The Natural Wealth of California: Comprising Early History; Geography, Topography, and Scenery; Climate; Agriculture and Commercial Products; Geology, Zoology, and Botany; Mineralogy, Mines, and Mining Processes; Manufactures; Steamship Lines, Railroads, and Commerce; Immigration, Population and Society; Educational Institutions and Literature; Together with a Detailed Description of Each County ...H.H. Bancroft, 1868 - 696 strani Order book for this title. Consists of sample pages from the original book followed by blank order sheets with columns for subscriber's name, address and comments. |
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Stran viii
... fruit raising the high lands will hereafter be generally preferred . Many of these remarks are also true of the Coast Range , where mountains 3,000 feet high are often clothed to their summits with a thick growth of wild oats , which ...
... fruit raising the high lands will hereafter be generally preferred . Many of these remarks are also true of the Coast Range , where mountains 3,000 feet high are often clothed to their summits with a thick growth of wild oats , which ...
Stran xiv
... Fruits and Nuts : Apples - Pears - Peaches - Plums - Cherries - Oranges - Lemons - Limes - Bananas— Olives - Almonds - Chestnuts , etc. Berries : Strawberries --Raspberries -- Blackberries . Dried Fruits Raisins - Currants - Prunes ...
... Fruits and Nuts : Apples - Pears - Peaches - Plums - Cherries - Oranges - Lemons - Limes - Bananas— Olives - Almonds - Chestnuts , etc. Berries : Strawberries --Raspberries -- Blackberries . Dried Fruits Raisins - Currants - Prunes ...
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... Fruits and Vego- tables , etc. - Miscellaneous Manufactures - Works Projected or in Progress . 596 CHAPTER XII . CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO . · Situation , Topography , etc. - Early Settlement and Subsequent Progress - Street ...
... Fruits and Vego- tables , etc. - Miscellaneous Manufactures - Works Projected or in Progress . 596 CHAPTER XII . CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO . · Situation , Topography , etc. - Early Settlement and Subsequent Progress - Street ...
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... fruit . This authority states , further , that on the Island of Santa Catalina , off the coast of Santa Barbara , the natives had large wooden canoes , capable of holding twenty persons each , with which they caught large quan- tities ...
... fruit . This authority states , further , that on the Island of Santa Catalina , off the coast of Santa Barbara , the natives had large wooden canoes , capable of holding twenty persons each , with which they caught large quan- tities ...
Stran 27
... fruit to supply their own wants . In San Diego County there are twenty - eight rancherias , containing altogether about 2,000 natives . None of the other southern counties contain as many , but there are EARLY HISTORY . 27.
... fruit to supply their own wants . In San Diego County there are twenty - eight rancherias , containing altogether about 2,000 natives . None of the other southern counties contain as many , but there are EARLY HISTORY . 27.
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abundant acres auriferous average bushels California cañon cattle chiefly climate Coast Range contains county seat creek cretaceous crops cultivation deposits Diablo range district dollars east eastern eight erected extensive Feather river feet high fifty five forty four fruit gold grain grass Grass Valley growing hills hundred feet important inches Indians inhabitants lake land large number latter located lodes manufacture Mexican miles wide mills mineral mining mission Monte Diablo Monterey mountains nearly northern Pacific pine placer mining planted population portion pounds quantities quartz railroad rain rich river rocks Sacramento Sacramento river San Francisco San Joaquin river San José Santa Cruz season shipped Sierra Nevada sluice soil southern species springs square miles streams summer supply thousand feet timber tons town trees Tuolumne county twenty valley vegetables veins vessels vicinity vines winter yield
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Stran 12 - Colorado, at a point where it intersects the thirty-fifth degree of north latitude; thence down the middle of the channel of said river to the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, as established by the treaty of May...
Stran 2 - Know that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise; and it was peopled by black women, without any man among them, for they lived in the fashion of Amazons.
Stran 66 - the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Stran 397 - ... between the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west, in which are the great silver mines of Nevada.
Stran 13 - Colorado, at a point where it intersects the 35th degree of north latitude; thence down the middle of the channel of said river, to the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, as established by the treaty of May 30th, 1848; thence running west and along said boundary line to the Pacific Ocean, and extending therein three English miles; thence running in a northwesterly direction, and following the direction of the Pacific coast to the 42d degree of north latitude; thence on the line of...
Stran 51 - Thus circumstanced, we find ourselves threatened by hordes of Yankee emigrants, who have already begun to flock into our country, and whose progress we cannot arrest.
Stran 44 - Reverend Father: — I understand, through the medium of one of your Christian Indians, that you are anxious to know who we are, as some of the Indians have been at the Mission and informed you that there were certain white people in the country. We are Americans, on our journey to the River Columbia ; we were in at the Mission San Gabriel...
Stran 544 - ... per lineal foot, varying with the cost of labor and the character of the rock to be excavated. The end of the tunnel is designed to be from fifty to one hundred feet, or perhaps more, beneath the bottom of the gravel, at a point where a shaft or incline is sunk through the gravel and bed-rock to intersect it. It obviously demands careful engineering to carry out works of such magnitude with the accuracy required, and for the want of sufficient care or skill in this particular, years of costly...
Stran 209 - District comprises the area bounded on the north by the State of Oregon, on the east by the State of Nevada, on the south by...
Stran 43 - ... that he found it impossible to return by the route he came, as his horses had most of them perished for want of food and water ; he was, therefore, under the necessity of pushing forward to California, it being the nearest place where he could procure supplies to enable him to return. We further state as our...