Excerpt from Journalism in California, 1915 A People Who Were Not Disturbed by News - Naming of the Golden Gate Communication Between the Missions - First Printing Press in California The Earliest Discovery of Gold at Los Angeles in 1841 - The First House in Yerba Buena - The First Civic Improvement in California - Marine In activity and Industrial Languor Match Each Other - California's First Saw mill - Arrival of the Mormon Colony - A Press and Font of Type Brought in 1846 - California's First Paper Published at Monterey in 1846 - Defense Against Wild Indians - First Paper Almost Pays Expenses - First Type Used in Monterey Found in One of the Missions - Two Weeks Between Los Angeles and San Francisco - The California Star Issued by the Mormons Hard Times in Yerba Buena - The First Boost Article printed in Cali formia - Desire to Make a Slave State of California - The Rush to the Mines - Yerba Buena Is Officially Named San Francisco by Alcalde Bart lett - Commerce and Population of San Francisco in 1848 Page 1. 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.