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EESOURCES OP CALIFOENIA. 



Guano Hill, Slap-Jack Bar, 



Rattlesnake Bar, Quack Hill, 



Whiskey Bar, Pepperbox Flat, 



Poverty Hill, Nigger Hill, 



Greasers' Camp, Seventy-six, 



.'hristian Flat, Piety Hill, 



Rough and Ready, Hog's Diggings, 



Ragtown, Brandy Gulch, 



Sugar-Loaf Hill, Liberty Hill, 



Poker Flat, Love-Letter Camp, 



Wild-Cat Bar, Paradise, 



Dead Mule Caiion, Blue Belly Ravine, 



Wild Goose Flat, Sluice Fork, 



Brandy Flat, Shinbone Peak, 



Gridiron Bar, Seven-up Ravine, 



Hen-roost Camp, Loafer's Retreat, 



Lousy Ravine, Humpback Slide, 



Lazy Man's Canon, Swellhead Diggings, . 



Logtown, Cayote Hill, 



Git-up-and-git, Poodletown, 



Gopher Flat, Yankee Doodle, 



Stud-horse Caiion, Horsetown, 



Bob Ridley Flat, Petticoat Slide, 



One Eye, Chucklehead Diggings, 



Push-coach Hill, Mount Zion, 



Puppytown, Barefoot Diggings, 



Mad Canon, ♦ Plug-Head Gulch, 



Butte county was named from the huttes or high hills' on its 

 border. Cache Creek was probably so called because some 

 trappers buried or cached something on its banks many years 

 ago. Butte and Cache are words of French origin, introduced 

 into the English language by trappers. 



Anaheim is derived from Ana, the Spanish for Ann, and the 

 German word heim, meaning home — and the compound means 

 Anna's home. The Ana was suggested by the Santa Ana 

 valley, in which Anaheim is built. 



§ 304. Etyynology of " Californiar — There is much doubt 

 about the etymology of the word California. Some authors 

 contend that it is a compound, derived from the Latin words 

 callda (hot) and fornax (furnace). The name was first be- 



Skunk Gi.lch, 

 Coon Hollow, 

 Poor Man's Creek, 

 Humbug Caiion, 

 Bloomer Hill, 

 Grizzly Flat, 

 Rat-Trap Slide, 

 Pike Hill, 

 Port Wine, 

 Snow Point, 

 Nary Red, 

 Gas Hill, 

 Ladies' Yalley, 

 Graveyard Canon, 

 Gospel Gulch, 

 Chicken-Thief Flat, 

 Hungry Camp, 

 Mud Springs, 

 Skinflint, 



American Hollow, 

 Gold Hill, 

 Pancake Ravine, 

 Centipede Hollow, 

 Nutcake Camp, 

 Seven-by-nine Valley, 

 Paint-Pot HiH. 



