Letter from California Life in San Francisco

Letter from California Life in San Francisco

Steinbergen

1849-10-18

This news article is a print of Benj. Orrick from mines of California during the Gold Rush. Orrick talks about how its easy to make cash there but the for the basics such as equipment and housing are extremely expensive. He warns his friend that the new comers are exploited by the settled miners and are the only ones who really profit.

Gabrielle Issa

B, O. "Letter from California Life in San Francisco--Expensive Living--Wages for Labor--Enormous Rents--Unhealthy Climate-Robberies, Murders and Executions--Profits and Losses of Merchants--Life at the Mines--Yield of Gold--Advice to those Attacked with the Gold Fever-Regrets--Physicians--Charges--Steinbergen's Speculations." The Sun (1837-1989) Oct 18 1849: 1. ProQuest. 23 Mar. 2015 .

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