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up to become the first City Hotel, and to rent
for $5000. a month. The blocks covered by
the population were five, North & South, and
four East & West, and there might have been
100 persons to a block, as inhabitants;
and half as many more in the hotels and
lodging houses. All through the Summer the
numbers rapidly increased, and when the over-
-land trains arrived in the early autumn, the
place was overrun with people.

As already indicated there were a few hun-
-dreds who constituted the nucleus of the city,
who owned their lots and structures. And ma-
ny of the new-comers [newcomers] bought or rented their
locations, and all held them as from
the title of General Sutter. These Citi-