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RESOURCES OF CAI.IFORNIA. 



Guano llill, 

 Rattlesnake Bar, 

 "VVhiskej Bar, 

 Poverty Hill, 

 Greasers' Camp, 

 Christian Flat, 

 Rough and Ready, 

 Ragtown, 

 Sugar-Loaf Hill, 

 Poker Flat, 

 Wild-Cat Bar, 

 Dead Mule Cailon, 

 Wild Goose Flat, 

 Brandy Flat, 

 Gridiron Bar, 

 Hen-roost Camp, 

 Lousy Ravine, 

 Lazy Man's Cailon, 

 Logtown, 

 Git-up-and-git, 

 Gopher Flat, 

 Stud-horse Caiion, 

 Bob Ridley Flat, 

 One Eye, 

 Push-coach Hill, 

 Puppytown, 

 Mad Canon, 



Slap-Jack Bar, 

 Quack Hill, 

 Pepperbox Flat, 

 Nigger Hill, 

 Seventy-six, 

 Piety Hill, 

 Hog's Digghigs, 

 Brandy Gulch, 

 Liberty Hill, 

 Love-Letter Camp, 

 Paradise, 



Blue Belly Ravine, 

 Sluice Fork, 

 Shinbone Peak, 

 Seven-up Ravine, 

 Loafer's Retreat, 

 Humpback Slide, 

 Swellhead Diggings, 

 Cayote Hill, 

 Poodletown, 

 Yankee Doodle, 

 Horsetown, 



Skunk Gulcli, 

 Coon Hollow, 

 Poor Man's Creek, " 

 Humbug Cafion, 

 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 Hfll, 

 Pancake Ravine, 

 Centipede Hollow, 



Petticoat Slide, 



Chucklehead Diggings, Nutcake Camp, 

 Mount Zion, Seven-by-nine Valley, 



Barefoot Diggings, Paint-Pot Hill. 



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. JButte 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. Etymology of " Calif orniaP — There is much doubt 

 about the etymology of the word California. Some authors 

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

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



