The Natural Wealth of California: Comprising Duly 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,a Detailed Description of Each CountyH. H. Hancroft & Company, 1868 - 696 strani |
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... gold in Vivola , in order not to return to Mexico without gold , resolved to come to Quivera ( California ) ; for they had heard much of its gold mines , and that Tatar- raxus , the powerful king of Quivera , was amply provided with ...
... gold in Vivola , in order not to return to Mexico without gold , resolved to come to Quivera ( California ) ; for they had heard much of its gold mines , and that Tatar- raxus , the powerful king of Quivera , was amply provided with ...
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... gold , of which they took a considerable quantity to the rendezvous of the company on Green River , or Sidskadee , one of the head waters of the Colorado . This gold , and the large quantity of furs brought by the party , so pleased the ...
... gold , of which they took a considerable quantity to the rendezvous of the company on Green River , or Sidskadee , one of the head waters of the Colorado . This gold , and the large quantity of furs brought by the party , so pleased the ...
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... gold on Sutter's farm , which embraced an area of many miles square . Mankind have cer- tainly been benefitted by the discovery of gold in California - but not so Sutter . That discovery involved him in ruin . It led to the destruc ...
... gold on Sutter's farm , which embraced an area of many miles square . Mankind have cer- tainly been benefitted by the discovery of gold in California - but not so Sutter . That discovery involved him in ruin . It led to the destruc ...
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... gold at other localities , at that time . There are many facts connected with the acquisition of California by the United States , which will probably never be brought to light , till some future Bancroft or Prescott shall be poring ...
... gold at other localities , at that time . There are many facts connected with the acquisition of California by the United States , which will probably never be brought to light , till some future Bancroft or Prescott shall be poring ...
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... gold , the following synopsis of the policy pursued by the United States Government in acquiring territory on the Pacific Coast may be useful in removing such an erroneous impression , and in proving that that grand discovery was the ...
... gold , the following synopsis of the policy pursued by the United States Government in acquiring territory on the Pacific Coast may be useful in removing such an erroneous impression , and in proving that that grand discovery was the ...
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abundant acres agricultural 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 mills mineral mining 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 Diego 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 13 - 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 thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight...
Stran 13 - English miles; thence running in a north-westerly direction, and following the direction of the Pacific coast to the forty-second degree of north latitude; thence on the line of said forty-second degree of north latitude to the place of beginning.
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 70 - The object of the United States has reference to ultimate peace with Mexico; and if at that peace the basis of the uti possiditis shall be established, the government expects, through your forces, to be found in actual possession of Upper California.
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 in January latt.
Stran 2 - Know that, on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very near to the Terrestrial Paradise, which was peopled with black women, without any men among them, because they were accustomed to live after the fashion of Amazons. They were of strong and hardened bodies, of ardent courage, and of great force. The island was the strongest in the world, from its steep rocks and great cliffs. Their arms were all of gold; and so were the caparisons of the wild beasts which they rode,...
Stran 29 - the Peruvians were a Chinese colony, and that the Spaniards found at the entry of the Pacific Ocean, on coming through the straits of Magellan, the wrecks of Chinese vessels." There are proofs clear and certain, that Mango Capac, the founder of the Peruvian nation, was the son of Kublai Kahn, the commander of this expedition, and that the ancestors of Montezuma, of Mexico, who were from Assam, arrived about the same time. But for the fanaticism of the Spanish priests, who destroyed all the Mexican...
Stran 40 - ... choosing our own federal and local rulers. We shall have a stable government and just laws. California will grow strong and flourish, and her people will be prosperous, happy, and free. Look not, therefore, with jealousy upon the hardy pioneers who scale our mountains and cultivate our unoccupied plains, but rather welcome them as brothers who come to share with us a common destiny.
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.