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The discovery of gold in California, in 1848, with its other mineral resources, including the Alamada quicksilver mine at San José, which is an article of first necessity in working gold or silver ore; and the great silver mines of Nevada, in 1860, the Comstock lode, in which, in ten years, from five to eight hundred millions of gold and silver were taken out, a larger amount than was ever taken from one locality before, the Alamada quicksilver mine being the second most productive of any in the world, the one in Spain being the largest, said to be owned by the Rothschilds. Its effect. | The Adventures of a Forty-niner by Daniel 1 The Adventures of a Forty-niner by Daniel The Project Gutenberg eBook The Adventures of a Forty-niner by Daniel Knower This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title The Adventures of a Forty-niner Author Daniel Knower Release Date June 4 2004 eBook 12518 Language English Character set encoding iso-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF A FORTY-NINER E-text prepared by the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 12518-h.htm or 12518-h.zip http www.gutenberg.net 1 2 5 1 12518 12518-h 12518-h.htm or http www.gutenberg.net 1 2 5 1 12518 12518-h.zip THE ADVENTURES OF A FORTY-NINER The Adventures of a Forty-niner by Daniel 2 An Historic Description of California with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days By DANIEL KNOWER 1894 DEDICATED TO Colonel Jonathan Stevenson Colonel John C. Freemont and Captain John A. Sutter THE THREE PRE-EMINENT PIONEERS OF CALIFORNIA. Illustration DANIEL KNOWER. PREFACE The discovery of gold in California in 1848 with its other mineral resources including the Alamada quicksilver mine at San José which is an article of first necessity in working gold or silver ore and the great silver mines of Nevada in 1860 the Comstock lode in which in ten years from five to eight hundred millions of gold and silver were taken out a larger amount than was ever taken from one locality before the Alamada quicksilver mine being the second most productive of any in the world the one in Spain being the largest said to be owned by the Rothschilds. Its effect upon the general prosperity and development of our country has been immense almost .
