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Show TEN DOLLAR8 AN OUNCE FOR POSTAGE Tho first settlement on tho prosont sito of San Francisco dates from 177C It consisted of a Spanish military post (presidio) and tho Franciscan mission of San Francisco do Asls. In 1830 tho settlement of Yorba Buena was established In a Httlo covo south cast of Telegraph Hill. Tho namo San Francisco was, however, appliod to nil throo settlements, Tho Unltod States flag was raised ovor tho town In 184G and tho population rapidly Increased, In-creased, reaching perhaps 900 in May, 1848. Tho nows of tho gold discoveries was followed by crowds of fortune seokors, so that by tho end of 1848 tho city had an estimated population of 20,000.1 From that tlmo on San Francisco has grown rapidly. Tho first regular overland wall communication communi-cation with tho East was established by pony express in I860 tho chargo for poatago being $5 for half an ounce In 18C9 tho completion of tho Central Pacific Itallway to Oakland Oak-land marked tho beginning of transcontinental trans-continental railway communication. |