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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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nd dollars, and rented toMessrs. Fowler and Fry for five thousand dollars permonth. In 1850, the scourge of cholera broke out, carryingoff one-fifth of those remaining in Sacramento. Thecity was full to overflowing with a transient popula-tion. Accommodations were scant and primitive, viceand disorder prevailed. The disease became rampant.Patients at the hospital were charged sixteen dollarsper day. Then it was that the order of Odd Fellowscame nobly forward, setting to that plague-strickendistrict an example of charity and philanthropy longto be remembered, and-accenting the fact ^that sim-ple duty has no place for fear! On February 25, 1854, Sacramento was designatedas the seat of government of California. The dignityof being the State capital gave new life to thecity. Her growth is instanced by the assessment onreal estate, whwh rose from $5,400,000 in 1854, to$13,000,000 in twenty years. When I rode through, the population was 21,400. In 1853 the streets were planked, and provided
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ALONG THE SACRAMENTO. 527 with sewers. In 1854 a gas company was formed.The street railroad came in 1870. There were tenchnrches in tlie city as I found it. The first public school came in 1855, the highschool in 1856, When I was there the city had sustained from time totime about forty daily papers and twenty-four weeklies. The State Library is a brilliant feature of the place.Various large manufacturing interests thrive in thecity. Its commerce is awe-inspiring. Sacramento sent to the east in one year 90,000,000pounds of fruit, her entire east-bound shipments beingover 130,000,000 pounds. The annual manufacturing and jobbing trade isover $60,000,000. Looking at these statistics, one is reminded of themagic tent of Prince Ahmed. At first it was no big-ger than a nut-shell. Surely it could hold nothing;but it did. People flocked to it. Surely it could notcover thera ;—but it did ! it did !! The army flockedto it;—but the tent was elastic. It covered all; itsheltered all; it welcom

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