James D. Hague 



This project was partly realized in 

 the erection of a wooden cross at a 

 point said to be the one referred to ; 

 but a more easily accessible and en- 

 during monument, in recognition of 

 the interesting event, has since been 

 more conspicuously established in 

 Golden Gate Park, in the city of San 

 Francisco, overlooking the sea. 



On the Mexican coast of Lower 

 California an enterprise of magnifi- 

 cent proportions was projected by 

 Mr. Cutter, based, as he affirmed, on 

 the largest private landed estate in 

 the world, for the gathering and util- 

 ization of seaweed as well as the cul- 

 tivation and production of orchilla, 

 a vegetable substitute for cochineal. 

 Another great scheme of inter- 

 national importance, in which our 

 lamented friend King was also con- 

 cerned, designed to reclaim and de- 

 velop a large, unutilized tract of 

 Mexican territory, near our boundary 



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