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Book Title: Directory Of The County Of Placer

DIRECTORY OF THE COUNTY OF PLACER, FOR THE YEAR 1861
CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, AND OF THE DIFFERENT TOWNS IN THE
COUNTY; WITH THE NAMES OF INHABITANTS, AND  EYERY THING APPERTAINING TO A
COMPLETE DIRECTORY.
COMPILED BY R. J. STEELE, JAMES P. BULL, AND F. I. HOUSTON.

PRINTED FOR THE PUBLISHERS,
BY CHARLES F. ROBBINS, 413 TO 417 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, 1861.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year of our Lord 1861. 
by R. J. STEELE. JAMES P. BULL, AND F. I. HOUSTON,
in the Clerk's Office of the United  States District Court for the Northern
District of
the State of California.

PREFACE.

   The publication of a Directory for Placer County, was suggested to the
undersigned by the absolute existing necessity to business men of a work of the
kind, and the knowledge that if properly and faithfully gotten up, it would ever
be a useful work of reference for business men, and an interesting book for the
perusal of the general reader. To enable the publishers to collect the materials
and pay for the printing of the book, the public of Placer County was asked to
aid the enterprise by advertising and subscriptions for copies; and it was
expected that, presenting as it does, the best medium for advertising ever
offered in Placer County, those engaged in mercantile, hotel, and other
pursuits, would give it such encouragement as would enable the publishers to not
only obtain full remuneration for the labor and expense attending a thorough
canvass of the county, but also a reasonable profit upon the capital necessarily
invested and the labor performed. In this, however, we have been mistaken, as
our receipts will be no more than sufficient to reimburse us for the money we
have expended in canvassing the county, leaving a very small amount indeed as
our profits upon the enterprise. Although the enterprise was an experiment, we
entered into the labor with a full determination to succeed in the work, even if
no profits therefrom were derived by us further than that afforded by the
convenience of the book as a work of future reference—expecting, as we did, to
be opposed by the ignorant in every camp and town which we visited, knowing full
well that if success attended our effort in the present, the advantage would be
great to us in any similar enterprise in future.

   If the work should not come up to that standard expected by its friends, we
can only offer as an apology the great haste in which it was gotten up, and the
vast amount of labor necessary to accomplish the collection and preparation of
the materials, and the total absence of any written work from which the
necessary information, statistical and otherwise, could be obtained.

   The historical sketches of the towns, and the county—though not as full and
complete as we would desire—may be relied upon as authentic, and will be
valuable as an auxiliary to the future historian of Placer County; and, though
the matter contained in the work may not be presented in that form and style
necessary to enable it to escape the attacks of literary connoisseurs and
professional critics, yet we feel assured that with all the faults that may
justly be attributed to the work, those who have patronized it most liberally,
and whom we have the greatest desire to please, will be satisfied with and
approve of it.


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DIRECTORY OF THE COUNTY OF PLACER, FOR THE YEAR 1861
CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY, AND OF THE DIFFERENT TOWNS IN THE
COUNTY; WITH THE NAMES OF INHABITANTS, AND  EYERY THING APPERTAINING TO A
COMPLETE DIRECTORY.
COMPILED BY R. J. STEELE, JAMES P. BULL, AND F. I. HOUSTON.

PRINTED FOR THE PUBLISHERS,
BY CHARLES F. ROBBINS, 413 TO 417 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, 1861.


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