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Excerpt from The Overland Monthly, Vol. 4: Devoted to the Development of the Country; January to June, 1870 Those men of 1849 - 5 5 who give the tone to San Francisco to-day, have, for nearly twenty years, worked hard - and that fact is conclusive, both of their present and future. They work hard still, and will continue hard at work to the end of their days. A fair allowance of wealth has been accumulated, but the question of amount of wealth has little bearing upon the habits of the man who has spent his years between the ages of thirty and fifty in its accumulation. These are also mainly self-made men. They are wholly self-made in the se'nse that they are the architects of their own fortunes; and they are also leavened with a leaven of that element in self making which consists in self-education. It is easy, therefore, to see what we ought to expect to find in the San F ran cisco of to-day: a community of men who left the United States twenty years ago in search of fortune, and since have been sturdily battling in its pursuit; who have been shut up within themselves dur ing that period; who have received into their circle and quietly absorbed a con tinuous immigration of later date, under whose influence some features of the old er society may have been modified, with out the introduction of new features in their stead. 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.