.), a series of articles on
"Mission Buildings," by G.W. James. On the case of the Pious Fund of
the missions see J.F. Doyle, _History of the Pious Fund_ (San
Francisco, 1887); _United States Department of State_, "United States
_v._ Mexico. Report of J.H. Ralston, agent of the United States and of
counsel in the matter of the Pious Fund of the Californias"
(Washington, 1902). On the "flush" mining years the best books of the
time are J.Q. Thornton's _Oregon and California_ (2 vols., New York,
1849); Edward Bryant's _What I Saw in California_ (New York, 1848); W.
Shaw's _Golden Dreams_ (London, 1851); Bayard Taylor's _Eldorado_ (2
vols., New York, 1850); W. Colton's _Three Years in California_ (New
York, 1850); E.G. Buffum's _Six Months in the Gold Mines; from a
Journal of Three Years' Residence in Upper and Lower California_
(London, 1850); J.T. Brooks' _Four Months among the Gold Finders_
(London, 1849); G.G. Foster, _Gold Regions of California_ (New York,
1884). On this same period consult Bancroft's _Popular Tribunals_;
D.Y. Thomas, "A History of Military Government in Newly Acquired
Territory of the United States," in vol. xx. No. 2 (New York, 1904) of
_Columbia University Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law_;
C.H. Shinn's _Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government_
(New York, 1885); J. Royce, _California ... A Study of American
Character, 1846-1856_ (Boston, 1886); and, for varied pictures of
mining and frontier life, the novels and sketches and poems of Bret
Harte. See also P.H. Burnet, _Recollections and Opinions of an Old
Pioneer_ (New York, 1880); S.J. Field, _Personal Reminiscences of
Early Days in California_ (privately published, copyright 1893).

FOOTNOTES:

[1] In December 1904 Salton Sea was dry; in February 1906 it was
occupied by a lake 60 m. long.

[2] During the interval from 1850 to 1872 the yearly rainfall at San
Francisco ranged from 11.37 to 49.27 in.; from 1850 to 1904 the
average was 22.74, and the probable annual variation 4 in.

[3] The means for Los Angeles and Red Bluff, of Redding and Fresno,
of San Diego and Sacramento, of San Francisco or Monterey and
Independence, are respectively about the same; and all of them lie
between 56 deg. and 63 deg. F. The places mentioned are scattered
over 3-1/2 deg. of longitude and 6-1/2 deg. of latitude.

[4] Small masses of water made to fa