The Life of Bret Harte, With Some Account of the California Pioneers
The Life of Bret Harte, With Some Account of the California Pioneers
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Gold dust poured into San Francisco from the launches and schooners which plied on the Sac- ramento River, and almost everybody in California seemed to have it in plenty. " Money, " said a Pioneer in a letter written at the end of '49, " is about the most valueless article that a man can have in his possession here. " As an illustration of the lavish manner in which busi- ness was transacted, it may be mentioned that the stamp box in the express office of Wells, Fargo and Company was a sort of ...common treasury. Clerks, messengers and drivers dipped into it for change whenever they wanted a lunch or a drink. There was nothing secret about this practice, and if not sanctioned it was at least winked at by the superior officers. Huge lumps of gold were exhib- ited in hotels and gambling houses, and the jingling of coins rivalled the scraping of the fiddle as the character- istic music of San Francisco.
The first deposit in the United States Mint of gold from California was made on December 8, 1848, and be- tween that date and May i, 1850, there were presented 1 84 LIFE OF BRET HARTE for coinage gold dust and nuggets valued at eleven mil- lion four hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Gold dust poured into San Francisco from the launches and schooners which plied on the Sac- ramento River, and almost everybody in California seemed to have it in plenty. " Money, " said a Pioneer in a letter written at the end of '49, " is about the most valueless article that a man can have in his possession here. " As an illustration of the lavish manner in which busi- ness was transacted, it may be mentioned that the stamp box in the express office of Wells, Fargo and Company was a sort of ...common treasury. Clerks, messengers and drivers dipped into it for change whenever they wanted a lunch or a drink. There was nothing secret about this practice, and if not sanctioned it was at least winked at by the superior officers. Huge lumps of gold were exhib- ited in hotels and gambling houses, and the jingling of coins rivalled the scraping of the fiddle as the character- istic music of San Francisco.
The first deposit in the United States Mint of gold from California was made on December 8, 1848, and be- tween that date and May i, 1850, there were presented 1 84 LIFE OF BRET HARTE for coinage gold dust and nuggets valued at eleven mil- lion four hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
What to read after The Life of Bret Harte, With Some Account of the California Pioneers?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Henry Childs Merwin to read onlineMoreLess
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