California: its gold and its inhabitants
Publisher: T. C. Newby
Published: 1856
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Law and politics -- California.; Business -- California.; California -- Gold discoveries.; California -- Description and travel.
Description: Sir Henry Veel Huntley (1795-1864) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. California: its gold and its inhabitants (1856) contains his experiences in California in 1852 as the San Francisco-based representative of a British gold quartz-mining company. He describes business and social life in San Francisco as well as visits to Marysville and Sacramento and two months at Placerville supervising large-scale mechanized mining operations. Special attention is given to shipping news, crime and violence and political corruption and disasters such as the Marysville flood and Sacramento fire.
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