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Friends the  Seoret^Who  Unite  with  Them  Other  Three  to  Help Them Keep  It — ^Three  Come  to  Coloma — Discovery  at  Mormon  Island —The Mormon  Exit. 42

CHAPTER  IV.

PROXIMATB EFFSCT  OF  TH£  GOLD  DISOOVSRY.

March-August, 1848.

The People  Sceptical  at  First — Attitude  of  the  Press — ^The  Country Converted by  a  Sight  of  the  Metal — The  Epidemic  at  San  Francisco — ^At San  Jos^y  Monterey,  and  down  the  Coast — The  Exodus — De- sertion of Soldiers  and  Sailors — Abandonment  of  Business,  of  Farms, and of  All  Kinds  of  Positions  and  Property 52

CHAPTER V.

FUBTHER DISOOVBBIES.

March-December, 1848.

Isaac Humphrey  again — ^Bidwell  and  his  Bar — ^Beading  and  his  Indians on Clear  Creek — Population  in  the  Mines — On  Feather  River  and the Tuba — John  Sinclair  on  the  American  River — The  Irishman Yankee Jim — Dr  Todd  in  Todd  Valley — Kelsey — Weber  on  Weber Creek — ^The Stockton  Mining  Company — Murphy — Hangtown — On  • the Stanislaus — Elnight,  Wood,  Savage,  and  Heffeman — Party  from Oregon-T-On the  Mokelumne  and  Cosumnes — ^The  Sonorans  on  the Tuolumne— Coronel and  Party 67

CHAPTER VI.

AT TH£  MINES. 1848.

Variety of  Social  Phases — ^Individuality  of  the  Tear  1848 — Noticeable Absence of  Bad  Characters  during  this  Year — Mining  Operations — Ignorance of  the  Miners  of  Mining — ^Implements  and  Processes^- Yield in  the  Different  Districts — ^Price  of  Gold-dust — ^Prices  of  Mer- chandise— A New  Order  of  Things — Extension  of  Development— Affisurs at  Sutter's  Fort — ^Bibliography — Effect  on  Sutter  and  Marshall — Character and  Career  of  These  Two  Men 82

CHAPTER VII.

BROADER KFTECTS  OF    THE  GOLD    DI800VERT.

1848-1849.

The Real  Effects  Eternal — How  the  Intelligence  was  Carried  over  the Sierra — ^To the  Hawaiian  Islands — ^British  Columbia — Oregon  and Washington — ^The Tidings  in  Mexico — Mason's  Messenger  in  Wash*