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Latest from the California Gold Rush...
Latest from the California Gold Rush...
Item # 704908
September 22, 1849
SATURDAY EVENING POST, Philadelphia, Sept. 22, 1849
* California gold rush - 49ers
* Steamship "Empire City"
Page 3 has: "From California" with the latest news, bits including: "...The Empire City brings over $600,000 in species and gold dust...An attack had been made by a party of rowdy Americans in San Francisco...emigrants from Missouri...are now arriving daily...In the gold diggings, many of the placers are becoming exhausted but new ones are being continually discovered. About an ounce a day it states as the average quantity found...Provisions are plenty in the mines..." with much more. The article on the gold takes over half a column.
The front page has a print of "Alexander Dumas", author of The Three Musketeers.
Four pages of very large size paper measuring 25 by 33 inches, folded three times, various wear at the folds. Folder size noted is for the issue folded in half.
AI notes: The Empire City was a steamship integral to the California Gold Rush of 1849, originally named Isaac Newton before being acquired by Charles Morgan and Associates and launched under the Empire City Line. She made her maiden voyage from New York to Chagres, Panama, on July 17, 1849, serving as a vital link for gold seekers traveling west. Notably, Charles E. Buckingham documented his journey on her second voyage, providing valuable firsthand accounts of the Gold Rush migration. Later operated by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and then the U.S. Mail Steamship Company, the Empire City remained active through the 1850s, reflecting the crucial role of maritime travel in the era’s rapid expansion and migration.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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