The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days.

Notes

See p. 60 for remarks about a Jewish speculator in potatoes, then a scarcity; pp. 162-63, the owner of an unfinished brewery in San Francisco borrows money from a Jew at a monthly interest rate of twenty per-cent. On p. 46, a nephew of the Rothschilds is relocating to San Francisco from Valparaiso, Chile, to establish a new branch of the family’s banking empire.