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274 HISTOHY OF CALIFORNIA. 



this time. After the State has existed a few years, 

 the utility of such a division as is proposed will be 

 manifest or disproved. In the mean time, let Cali- 

 fornia be admitted into the Union as her people have 

 created her, and then she will have every thing neces- 

 sary for her to go on in the fulfilment of a glorious 

 destiny. 



The gold discoveries in New Mexico and Oregon 

 will have but a slight influence on California affairs. 

 Yet for that slight influence, they deserve to be men- 

 tioned. The recent discoveries in New Mexico, would 

 seem to indicate that the El Dorado of the early 

 Spanish voyagers has been found, and nearly in the 

 place to which their attention was directed by the 

 Indians. A late number of the Houston Telegraph, 

 says : 



" That preparations are in progress in all parts of 

 the State, for a grand expedition to the gold region 

 that has been discovered in New Mexico, not far from 

 the ruins of the celebrated city of Grand Quivira. 

 Gold mines have been found all along the great chain 

 of mountains extending from the sources of the Ar- 

 kansas and Platte Rivers, by Santa Fe, to the Puerto. 

 Immense excavations arc shown along the feet of these 

 mountains, and the ruins of vast cities indicate that 

 these mines were once worked by millions of people. 

 The geographical formations of this region are so 

 similar to those of the gold regions of California, that 

 they appear to be identical, and contain similar de- 

 posits of the precious metals. These facts have 

 been made known throughout Texas, and the Tele- 

 graph would not be surprised to find that the emi- 

 gration to the gold region of Texas, in the ensuing 

 autumn, should exceed the emigration to California. 



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