Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . rst American Alcalde,or mayor and judge, caused the name of the city to be changed fromYerba Buena to San Francisco. Li 1848 California was ceded to theUnited States, San hYancisco at that time being a village of about 820people, with 200 houses, a newspaper, two wharves and a school. Within two years there were more than 20,000 people in the had been discovered in El Dorado County in 1848, and with it camethe rush of fortune seekers from all parts of the world. These ^^erethe pioneer days, the times of the Argonauts and prairie schooner a
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . rst American Alcalde,or mayor and judge, caused the name of the city to be changed fromYerba Buena to San Francisco. Li 1848 California was ceded to theUnited States, San hYancisco at that time being a village of about 820people, with 200 houses, a newspaper, two wharves and a school. Within two years there were more than 20,000 people in the had been discovered in El Dorado County in 1848, and with it camethe rush of fortune seekers from all parts of the world. These ^^erethe pioneer days, the times of the Argonauts and prairie schooner ad-venturers, who braved the rounding of the Horn or crossed the plains toanswer the call of West-ward Ho! In the year1849 $2,000,000 in gold wasexported. ]\[en of everyclass and kind responded toits lure. The worst andbest were thrown Vigilance Committeewas organized, and not un-til four men had beenhanged, thirty banished andeight hundred had found itexpedient to leave town,was law and order estab-lished. LICK PIONEER MONUMENT. History of Sax Francisco 19 During the Civil War efforts to draw California into secession wereunsuccessful. The war had the effect, however, of emphasizing the needof a transcontinental railroad, and on Alay 10, 1869, the efforts of LelandStanford. Collis P. Huntington, ^Nlark Hopkins, and Charles and E. were realized when the last spike connecting the Union Pacificand Central Pacific was driven at Promontory, Utah. Meanwhile the Pacific Coast was in the fever of Comstock great Comstock lode was discovered in 1859, and within thirty yearsthe Comstock mines produced $350,000,000 worth of bullion and paid$130,000,000 in dividends, mainly to San Francisco shareholders, ^lil-lionaires were made over night. ]\loney was lavished on such enter-prises as the Palace Hotel, and Xob Hill was crowned with thepalatial residences of mining and railroad magnates. Gradually the excitement subsided, but the glamour and enchant-ment of th
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