The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Central America. 1882-87History Company, 1888 |
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... March - August , 1848 . The People Sceptical at First - Attitude of the Press - The Country Converted by a Sight of the Metal - The Epidemic at San Francisco -At San José , Monterey , and down the Coast - The Exodus - De- sertion of ...
... March - August , 1848 . The People Sceptical at First - Attitude of the Press - The Country Converted by a Sight of the Metal - The Epidemic at San Francisco -At San José , Monterey , and down the Coast - The Exodus - De- sertion of ...
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... March , the Californian , one of the two weekly newspapers then published at San Francisco , contained a brief paragraph to the effect that gold had been discovered in considerable quantities at Sutter's saw - mill . The editor hazarded ...
... March , the Californian , one of the two weekly newspapers then published at San Francisco , contained a brief paragraph to the effect that gold had been discovered in considerable quantities at Sutter's saw - mill . The editor hazarded ...
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... workmen for more fascinating fields ; in the spring of this year the country round Clear Lake had been searched for copper . CHAPTER V. FURTHER DISCOVERIES . MARCH - DECEMBER , 1848 99 PROXIMATE EFFECT OF THE GOLD DISCOVERY . 66.
... workmen for more fascinating fields ; in the spring of this year the country round Clear Lake had been searched for copper . CHAPTER V. FURTHER DISCOVERIES . MARCH - DECEMBER , 1848 99 PROXIMATE EFFECT OF THE GOLD DISCOVERY . 66.
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... March ; the 8th saw him out prospecting with a pan ; the 9th found him at work with a rocker . The application of machinery to mining in California was begun . A day or two later came to the mill a French Canadian , Jean Baptiste Ruelle ...
... March ; the 8th saw him out prospecting with a pan ; the 9th found him at work with a rocker . The application of machinery to mining in California was begun . A day or two later came to the mill a French Canadian , Jean Baptiste Ruelle ...
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... March . Seeing the gold and the soil , he said there were similar indications in the vicinity of his rancho , at Chico . Returning home he searched the streams thereabout , and was soon at work with his native retainers on Feather River ...
... March . Seeing the gold and the soil , he said there were similar indications in the vicinity of his rancho , at Chico . Returning home he searched the streams thereabout , and was soon at work with his native retainers on Feather River ...
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Stran 299 - A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.
Stran 341 - The North has only to will it to accomplish it, to do justice by conceding to the South an equal right in the acquired territory, and to do her duty by causing the stipulations relative to fugitive slaves to be faithfully fulfilled, to cease the agitation of the slave question, and to provide for the insertion of a provision in the Constitution, by an amendment, which will restore to the South, in substance, the power she possessed of protecting herself, before the equilibrium between the sections...
Stran 54 - Gold Mine Found. — In the newly made raceway of the Saw Mill recently erected by Captain Sutter, on the American Fork, gold has been found in considerable quantities. One person brought thirty dollars' worth to New Helvetia, gathered there in a short time. California, no doubt, is rich in mineral wealth, great chances here for scientific capitalists. Gold has been found in almost every part of the country.
Stran 708 - In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement...
Stran 91 - ... worth of gold; and Mr. Lyman, a gentleman of education and worthy of every credit, said he had been engaged, with four others, with a machine, on the American Fork, just below...
Stran 573 - The archives thus collected," he wrote, furnished irresistible proof that there had been an organized system of fabricating land titles carried on for a long time in California by Mexican officials ; that forgery and perjury had been reduced to a regular occupation; that the making of false grants, with the subornation of false witnesses to prove them, had become a trade and a business.
Stran 541 - That the commissioners herein provided for, and the District and Supreme Courts, in deciding on the validity of any claim brought before them under the provisions of this act, shall be governed by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the law of nations, the laws, usages, and customs of the government from which the claim is derived, the principles of equity, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, so far as they are applicable.
Stran 91 - Sutter's mill ; that they worked eight days, and that his share was at the rate of fifty dollars a day ; but hearing that others were doing better at Weber's place, they had removed there, and were then on the point of resuming operations. I might tell of hundreds of similar instances...
Stran 733 - June 1860 he applied for a change of venue, on the ground that he could not have a fair and impartial trial in SF, because of his course during the active existence of the vigilance committee. The change of venue was granted by Judge Hager, to Marin county. On the...
Stran 128 - Panamd, to Astoria, or to such other port as the secretary of the navy may select, in the territory of Oregon, once a month each way, so as to connect with the mail from Habana to Chagres across the Isthmus.