What to see in America . rnia for $15,000, a month previous, an employee of Sutters, whileblasting a mill race for a sawmill Sutter was building on theAmerican River, brought to light some yellow particleswhich proved to be gold. Before the years end gold dust tothe value of S6,000,000 had been taken from the placers ofCalifornia. The next year about 100,000 Forty-ninersarrived from the East. Sutters land was preempted bythe rush of gold diggers. His own reward was a pension of$3000. Sutters fort consisted of an adobe wall eighteenfeet high and three feet thick inclosing a space five h
What to see in America . rnia for $15,000, a month previous, an employee of Sutters, whileblasting a mill race for a sawmill Sutter was building on theAmerican River, brought to light some yellow particleswhich proved to be gold. Before the years end gold dust tothe value of S6,000,000 had been taken from the placers ofCalifornia. The next year about 100,000 Forty-ninersarrived from the East. Sutters land was preempted bythe rush of gold diggers. His own reward was a pension of$3000. Sutters fort consisted of an adobe wall eighteenfeet high and three feet thick inclosing a space five hundredfeet long by one hundred and fifty wide. It had twenty-fourcannon and a garrison of one hundred well-drilled Indiansin uniform. The fort became ruinous as time went on, butit has now been restored. When the California State Housewas completed in 1867 it was declared to be the most beautifulpublic building in the United States. The city takes prideLd an ostrich farm which yields a considerable income. California 471. The Yosemite Falls — the Highest in the World THE NEW YORK fPUBLIC LIBRARY f ASTOR. LENOX f TTLDEN FCUl^ t- ?: • California 473 Thirty miles southeast of San Francisco is Palo Alto. Thename means Tall Tree, and the great redwood which sug-gested the name still stands. Stanford University is thegreat attraction at Palo Alto. It has an endowment ofS30,000,000, and its buildings, in the Mission style of archi-tecture, with long corridors and inner courts, are the finestpossessed by any university in the world. San Jose, the City Beautiful, twenty miles farther south,was established by the Spaniards in 1797, and is therefore oldas California reckons time. It is in the center of the largestcompact orchard on the globe. This is sheltered by themountains round about from every asperity of land or miles away is the Lick Observatory on The distance to the summit from the base ofthe mountain is only two miles in a direct line, but by ther
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