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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-02-02

Total Pages: 682

ISBN-13: 9780243249022

Excerpt from The Overland Monthly, Vol. 4: Devoted to the Development of the Country; January to June, 1870 Upon such premises must rest San Francisco's claim to the possession of energy. They indicate simply that when she was younger and lustier, she pursued with a consuming ardor, a dogged deter mination, and an unremitting industry, the purpose of her existence - wealth. She may safely encounter comparison with the most energetic of her sister cit ies, but claim nothing beyond a rivalry with those whose growth has divided with her own, during the past ten years, the fame of our Western progress. There are a few cognate facts which should be added here. The mercantile business of San Francisco has become. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.