The Bee. Boston Daily. Friday May 18, 1849. California News.
Vol. 15 No. 21. Boston: Bradbury, Harmon & Co., 1849.
Newspaper. Newspaper. Approximately 21" x 15." 4 pages. Paper has multiple folds, several creases, and light toning.
Contents include news from California on two pages; local and regional news around Boston; Political happenings; articles titled "Slices of the West" and "An Episode of the Mexican War"; advertisements for goods to be taken to California; health cure advertisements; and several more advertisements.
Front page headine reads "Interesting from California" with a correspondent writing "I have some doubts whether the present town of San Francisco will continue to be the place of business. It is situated a few miles from the entrance of the harbor on the side of a hill, but the great objection to it, as a place of business, is that vessels cannot approach the quarter to half a mile of the city..." The writer goes on to discuss Gold news stating, "Fifty to one hundred dollars a per day is nothing extraordinary for miners to make..." Fair. Item #36792
Price: $150.00