1850 antique CALIFORNIA statehood GOLD RUSH MINING AGRICULTURE Pres Z.TAYLOR msg For Sale

1850 antique CALIFORNIA statehood GOLD RUSH MINING AGRICULTURE Pres Z.TAYLOR msg
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Official U.S. House of Representatives Executive Document No. 59, 31st Congress, 1st Session — “T. Butler King’s Report on California.” Measures approx. 8.75 × 5.5 inches, 32 pages, complete, disbound but sound. Moderate toning and light foxing; minor corner chips; all text crisp and legible.

Transmitted March 27, 1850 by President Zachary Taylor with a covering letter from Secretary of State John M. Clayton. Thomas Butler King had been sent west as special agent to California following the 1848–49 discovery of gold. His report—written at San Francisco and Washington, March 22 1850—became Congress’s first systematic account of the new territory’s population, mines, and resources just before California entered the Union.

Highlights

Earliest federal summary of the Gold Rush: first official estimates of gold yield, miners’ numbers, and economic impact.

Descriptions of population & society in San Francisco, Sacramento, and mining settlements.

Meteorological tables from Monterey, Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco (temperature data 1847–49).

Sections on climate, soil, agriculture, grazing, mineralogy, commerce, and public lands.

Discussion of the transition from Mexican to U.S. law, land-title disputes, and the movement for statehood.

Early vision of Pacific trade linking California, China, and South America.

Physical details

Pagination: 32 pp. complete.

Size: 8.75 × 5.5 in.

Binding: disbound from larger congressional volume.

Condition: clean, original, lightly toned pages; no loss of text.

Historical significance

Issued only months before California’s admission (Sept 1850), this document provided Congress and the public their first comprehensive view of the region’s extraordinary transformation after the Gold Rush. It is cited in virtually every early bibliography of California statehood and mining history.

Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.



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