The Life of Bret Harte, With Some Account of the California Pioneers
The Life of Bret Harte, With Some Account of the California Pioneers
Henry Childs Merwin
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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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