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Title: Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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assed forbidding this pastime on tiie Sabbath day. The news that California had been admitted as aState in the Union reached San Francisco on the morn-ing of October 18, 1850, when the Oregon entered theharbor, flying all her bunting, and signalling the goodnews. Business was suspended; courts were ad-journed ; and the whole population, frenzied with de-light, congregated on Portsmouth Square to congratu-late each other. Newspapers containing the intelli-gence from Washington sold for five dollars each!The shipping in the harbor was gaily dressed withflags; guns boomed from the heights ; bonfires blazedat night; processions were formed ; bands j)layed ; andthe people in every way expressed their joy. Mount-ing his box behind six fiery mustangs laslied to highestspeed, the driver of Crandalls Stage cried the goodnews all the way to San Jos^—California is ad-mitted !! while a rins^ino; cheer was returned bv thepeople as the mail flew by. The awaking of San Francisco during the five or
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CASCADE BY THE ROADSIDE. SAN FRANCrSCO AND END OF JOURNEY. 537 six years followiiicr the discovery of gold was won-derful. Hills were tuinhlcd into the hay, and mudflats were made solid i^round. Streets were graded,liandsorne huildings were erected, and San Franciscohegan to rank among the first cities of the land. Sovahiahle was her water-front that, in l(So3, four smallblocks on Commercial street sold for over 1,000,000dollars. The assessed valuation of property that yearwas about 10,000,000 dollars over that of the pre-vious year. The population was then estimated at about 50,000;that being about one-seventh of the then population ofthe State. The city had, at this time, 1856, seventeen fire com-panies, twelve military companies, and a number ofsocial clubs, four hospitals, seventeen public schools,thirty-two church organizations, thirteen daily news-papers, and as many weeklies published in half adozen different languages. From that time she has continued ever increasing,ever just

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