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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. SAN FRANCISCO. 1848-1850. Site And Surroundings--Rivals--Effect Of The Mines--Shipping--InFlux Of Population--Physical And Commercial Aspects--Business Firms-- Public And Private Buildings -- National Localities-- Hotels And Restaurants--Prices Current--Property Values-- Auction Sales--Wharves And Streets--Early Errors--Hlstoric Fires--Engines And Companies--Immigration And SpeculationPolitics--The Hounds--City Government. Many cities owe their origin to accident; some to design. In the latter category may be placed most of those that sprang up upon this western earth's end, and notably San Francisco. When the Englishman Richardson moved over from Sauzalito to Yerba Buena Cove in the summer of 1835, and cleared a place in the chaparral for his trading-tent; when the American Jacob P. Leese came up from Los Angeles, and in connection with his friends of Monterey, William Hinckley and Nathan Spear, erected a substantial frame building and established a commercial house there in the summer of 183G--it would appear that these representatives of the two foremost nations of the world, after mature deliberation, had set out to lay the foundation of a west-coast metropolis. The opening of the Hudson's Bay Company branch establishment in 1841 added importance to the hamlet Although founded on the soil and under the colors of Anahuac, it never was a Mexican settlement, for the United States element ever predominated, until the SITE SELECTED. 165 spirit of '7G took formal possession under symbol of the American flag, wafted hither over subdued domains. The inducements for selecting the site lay in its proximity to the outlet of the leading harboF' upon the coast, a harbor to which so many huge rivers and rich valleys were tributary, and...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230313850
- ISBN 13 9781230313856
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages358
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