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Mines — Cholera — Hardsnips and Self -denials — ^A Commnnity of Men — Adulation of Woman — Arrival and Departure of Steamers — Sani- tary Condition of San Francisco — Rats and Other Vermin — The Drinking Habit — Amusements — Gambling — Lotteries and Raffles — Bull and Bear Fighting — The Drama — Sunday in the Mines — Sum- mary 221
CHAPTER XIL
POLITICAL HISTORY.
1846-1849.
The Slavery Question before Congress — Inaction and Delay — Military Rule in California — Mexican Forms of Civil and Judicial Govern- ment Maintained — Federal Othciuls in California — Governor Mason — Pranks of T. Butler King — Governor Riley — Legislative Assembly — Constitutional Convention at Mf»nterey — Some Biographies — Per- sonnel of the Convention — Money Matters — Adoption of the Consti- tution— Ejection 2r)l
CHAPTER XIII.
rOLmCAL HISTORY.
1849-1850.
The First Legislature — Qrestion of State Capital — Meeting of the Legis- lature at San Jose — Organization and Acts — Personnel of the Body — State Oiiicers — Further State Capital Schemes — California in Con- gress— Imi)ending Issues — Slavery or No Slavery — Admission into the Union — California Rejoices 308
CHAPTER XIV.
ENFOLDING OF MINERAL WEALTH.
1848-185G.
Extent of Gold Region in 1848-9- -American River the Centre — El Do- rado County — South Fork antl Southward — Middle Branch — Placer, Nevada, Yuba, Sierra, Plumas, Butte, and Shasta Counties — Trinity and Klamath— Gold Bluflf Excitement, 1850-1— Del Norte, Hum- boldt, and Siskiyou — In the South — Amador, Calaveras, and Tuol- umne— Table Mountain — Mariposa, Kern, San Bernardino — Los Angeles and San Diego — Along the Ocean 351
CHAPTER XV.
GEOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ANATOMY OF THE MINE.S.
1848-1856.
Physical Formation of the California Valley— The Tliree Geologic Belts — Physical As^H^ct of the Gold Regions — Cieologic Formations — In-
