The First Forty-niner and the Story of the Golden Tea-caddyMinton, Balch, 1925 - 127 strani |
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The First Forty-Niner and the Story of the Golden Tea Caddy James A. B. Scherer Predogled ni na voljo - 2013 |
The First Forty-Niner and the Story of the Golden Tea Caddy James A. B. Scherer Predogled ni na voljo - 2013 |
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Stran 53 - The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from the sea-shore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds with the sordid cry of gold! gold! gold!
Stran 51 - 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 every part of the country.
Stran 31 - I am convinced that this little circumstance was big with consequences. That Benicia has the best natural site for a commercial city, I am, satisfied; and had half the money and half the labor since bestowed upon San Francisco been expended at Benicia, we should have at this day a city of palaces on the Carquinez Straits. The name of "San Francisco...
Stran 84 - Now, on my last visit, I saw around me an actual metropolis, displaying street after street of well-built edifices, filled with an active and enterprising people and exhibiting every mark of permanent commercial prosperity.
Stran 85 - ... daily their long bills of fare, rich with the choicest technicalities of the Parisian cuisine. Then, vessels were coming in day after day, to lie deserted and useless at their anchorage. Now scarce a day passed, but some cluster of sails, bound outward through the Golden Gate, took their way to all the corners of the Pacific. Like the magic seed of the Indian juggler, which grew, blossomed, and bore fruit before the eyes of his spectators, San Francisco seemed to have accomplished in a day the...
Stran 67 - If foreigners come let them till the soil, and make roads, or do any other work that may suit them, and they may become properous; but the gold mines were preserved by Nature for Americans only, who possess noble hearts and are willing to share with their fellow men more than any other race of men on earth!
Stran 17 - To this Gate I gave the name of Chrysopylae, or Golden Gate: for the same reasons that the harbour of Byzantium (Constantinople afterwards) was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.
Stran 85 - Bay fronting the anchorage and bottoms of the hills. Now, it stretched to the topmost heights, followed the shore around point after point, and sending back a long arm through a gap in the hills, took hold of the Golden Gate and was building its warehouses on the open strait and almost fronting the blue horizon of the Pacific. Then, the goldseeking sojourner lodged in muslin rooms and canvas garrets, with a philosophic lack of furniture, and ate his simple though substantial fare from pine boards.
Stran 85 - ... my last visit, I saw around me an actual metropolis, displaying street after street of well-built edifices, filled with an active and enterprising people and exhibiting every mark of permanent commercial prosperity. Then, the town was limited to the curve of the Bay fronting the anchorage and bottoms of the hills. Now it stretched to the topmost heights, followed the shore around point after point, and sending back a long arm through a gap in the hills, took hold of the Golden Gate and was building...
Stran 60 - California,' seen everywhere in glaring letters, and at the columns of vessels advertised in the papers as about to sail for San Francisco. And finally, he would be puzzled at seeing a new class of men in the streets, in a peculiar costume — broad felt hats of a reddish brown hue, loose, rough coats reaching to the knee, and high boots. Even those who have watched the gradual progress of the excitement...