CHAPTER 11
1. This allowed 160 acres of unoccupied land to be sold to each homesteader on payment of a nominal fee.
2. Known as a quarter section. Land was surveyed, sold or awarded in square grid sections of 640 acres, which could be broken down, still in squares, to the smallest (quarter-quarter) size of forty acres.
3. Gold was first discovered there in 1848; 1849 saw the Gold Rush as thousands piled in as miners.
4. By 1876, Nevada produced over half of all the precious metals in the US.
5. The population increased from 4,000 in 1862 to over 15,000 in 1863.
6. Daily Alta, California, 18 March 1884, from a syndicated report.
7. He successfully married another heiress, Margaret Anderson, who became the noted society hostess Mrs Ronnie Greville.
8. San Francisco Chronicle, 21 September 1919.