. Where to emigrate and why : describe the climate--soil--productions--minerals and general resources--amount of public lands--the quality and price of farm lands in nearly all sections of the United States; and contains a description of the Pacific railroad--the homestead and other land laws--rates of wages throughout the country, etc., etc. . t3^H*,iy, Iliiii*^ ^^ E NEY7 YORTC PUBLIC ^^^■^^^^ THE HINTS TO EMIGRANTS. 21 And now, before we pass to the consideration of each Stateby itself, we would grasp each emigrant by the hand and bidhim God speed !—whether he be one of our own northeasternf


. Where to emigrate and why : describe the climate--soil--productions--minerals and general resources--amount of public lands--the quality and price of farm lands in nearly all sections of the United States; and contains a description of the Pacific railroad--the homestead and other land laws--rates of wages throughout the country, etc., etc. . t3^H*,iy, Iliiii*^ ^^ E NEY7 YORTC PUBLIC ^^^■^^^^ THE HINTS TO EMIGRANTS. 21 And now, before we pass to the consideration of each Stateby itself, we would grasp each emigrant by the hand and bidhim God speed !—whether he be one of our own northeasternfarmers, who has hopelessly wrestled with long and rigorouswinters upon a scanty and barren soil; one of the fair-hairedsons of Faderland—the wailing children of old Ireland—the sinewy men Mho live by the sounding shores of Nor-way—or any one of the down-trodden millions of the OldWorld who would earn a nobler manhood, and whose wistfuleyes, following the setting sun, yearn to behold a happierhome among the green meadows of our own land. May this volume help to guide many such timid and un-certain feet from poverty and hopeless toil, tt) happiness andindependence. CALIFORmA. In the montli of February, 1848, gold was found m one ofthe streams of an almost unknown region far away to the west,upon the shores of the great Pacific O


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