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Collection: Directories and Documents > Pamphlets

Half an Hour in El Dorado (PH 1-12)(1940s-50s) (35 pages)

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plans showing how they were to be assembled. Somehow, the plans were lost. At once the building became a veritable Chinese puzzle, and work had to stop until engineers could be brought from the Celestial Empire. NO. 36 NO. 39 Meantime, Wells Fargo was busy establishing other bank and express offices, such as the one (No. 38) still standing in the ghost city of Columbia. A model (No. 39) shows how the old office looked in its prime. Columbia was then a roaring city of 15,000, making an active bid to become capital of California. Near it, at Carson Hill, had been unearthed the largest piece of free gold ever found on this continent, a giant crab-shaped mass, valued at $43,000. "NO, 40 Today, the population of Columbia has dwindled to a handful. But picture No. 40 reveals how well the old town retains its appearance. The gold scales (No. 41) from the Wells Fargo Columbia office weighed some $50,000,000 worth of gold during their active career.