Homes and Happiness in the Golden State of California: Being a Description of the Empire State of the Pacific Coast, Its Inducements to Native and Foreign-Born Emigrants, Its Productiveness of Soil an - Hardcover

Benjamin Cummings Truman

9780331476255: Homes and Happiness in the Golden State of California: Being a Description of the Empire State of the Pacific Coast, Its Inducements to Native and Foreign-Born Emigrants, Its Productiveness of Soil an

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IS illustrated volume has been prepared iii the interest of two general classes - emigrants, from all sections of the civilized world, seeking: for permanent homes in a healthful agricultural country, of the first part, and the people generally of California, of the second part, Who are anxious to share their splendid lands and their incomparable climate With other industrial men and women of their own kind from all quarters of the globe. The present inhabitants of California - numbering upwards of. _one million, and who produced in a new State, in 1882, bushels of wheat, bushels of barley, pounds of beet sugar, pounds of wool, pounds of honey, 10 000 gallons of wine, $17, 645, 000 in gold and silver, and 50, 820 flasks of quicksilver - want to say, to another million of English, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese; Italian, Rhssian, Swedish, Norwegian, Canadian, New England, Western and Southern men and women, and.

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