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Friends the Seoret^Who Unite with Them Other Three to Help Them Keep It — ^Three Come to Coloma — Discovery at Mormon Island —The Mormon Exit. 42
CHAPTER IV.
PROXIMATB EFFSCT OF TH£ GOLD DISOOVSRY.
March-August, 1848.
The People Sceptical at First — Attitude of the Press — ^The Country Converted by a Sight of the Metal — The Epidemic at San Francisco — ^At San Jos^y Monterey, and down the Coast — The Exodus — De- sertion of Soldiers and Sailors — Abandonment of Business, of Farms, and of All Kinds of Positions and Property 52
CHAPTER V.
FUBTHER DISOOVBBIES.
March-December, 1848.
Isaac Humphrey again — ^Bidwell and his Bar — ^Beading and his Indians on Clear Creek — Population in the Mines — On Feather River and the Tuba — John Sinclair on the American River — The Irishman Yankee Jim — Dr Todd in Todd Valley — Kelsey — Weber on Weber Creek — ^The Stockton Mining Company — Murphy — Hangtown — On • the Stanislaus — Elnight, Wood, Savage, and Heffeman — Party from Oregon-T-On the Mokelumne and Cosumnes — ^The Sonorans on the Tuolumne— Coronel and Party 67
CHAPTER VI.
AT TH£ MINES. 1848.
Variety of Social Phases — ^Individuality of the Tear 1848 — Noticeable Absence of Bad Characters during this Year — Mining Operations — Ignorance of the Miners of Mining — ^Implements and Processes^- Yield in the Different Districts — ^Price of Gold-dust — ^Prices of Mer- chandise— A New Order of Things — Extension of Development— Affisurs at Sutter's Fort — ^Bibliography — Effect on Sutter and Marshall — Character and Career of These Two Men 82
CHAPTER VII.
BROADER KFTECTS OF THE GOLD DI800VERT.
1848-1849.
The Real Effects Eternal — How the Intelligence was Carried over the Sierra — ^To the Hawaiian Islands — ^British Columbia — Oregon and Washington — ^The Tidings in Mexico — Mason's Messenger in Wash*
