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COPYRIGHT,I832
BY ARBUCHLE BROS.N.Y
CALIFORNIA
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GRIND YOUR NO. 16.
CALIFORNIA.
COFFEE
IN 1513, Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama
and discovered the Pacific Ocean. In 1534 Mendoza and Gri-
AT HOME. jalva, two Spanish officers, discovered Lower California. The
Gulf of California was explored by Cortez. Sir Francis Drake in
1579 sailed along the Pacific Coast on one of his plundering and
It will pay you well to keep a small cof- devastating expeditions.
fee-mill in your kitchen and grind your
Missions were established in 1697 by the Jesuit padres, but they
coffee just as you use it-one mess at a
were replaced by King Charles III. with Franciscans, and they in
time. Coffee should not be ground until turn were supplanted by the Dominicans ; then they withdrew to
the coffee-pot is ready to receive it. Cof- Upper California and there erected more than a score of missions
fee will lose more of its strength and among the Indians. The founder of these was Father Junipero
aroma in one hour after being ground Serra, who established the mission of San Diego in 1769.
than in six months befc.e being ground.
California was ceded to the United States in 1848 after two years'
So long as Ariosa remains in the whole war, and on January 24th of the same year a piece of native gold
berry, our glazing, composed of choice was found in a mill-race by a workman named Marshall on the prop-
eggs and pure confectioners' A sugar, erty of Colonel Sutter, a Swiss settler, at Coloma. Dreamy pas-
closes the pores of the coffee, and there- toral life was over and by the close of the year miners in search of
by all the original strength and aroma gold were at work on the foothills from the Tuolumne to Feather
are retained. Ariosa Coffee has, during River. Next year, 100,000 men crossed the plains or the Isthmus of
25 years, set the standard for all other Panama, or rounded Cape Horn, for the Eldorado.
roasted coffees. So true is this, that California was admitted into the Union in 1850. The yield of gold
other manufacturers in recommending has gradually declined of late years, but in its place has arisen great
their goods, have known no higher praise industries in wheat, wool, wine and fruit. The State is next in
than to say: “It's just as good as Ar- extent to Texas.
buckles'.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
ARBUCKLE BROS.,
The Old Mission; Sir Francis Drake on the Coast in 1579; The
Big Trees, The Early Miners.
NEW YORK CITY.
THIS IS ONE OF A SERIES OF FIFTY (50) CARDS GIVING A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES,
DONALDSON BROTHERS.N.Y.
