Excerpt from The Three-Link Fraternity: Fifty-Sixth Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of California and Eighteenth Annual Session of the Rebekah Assembly, Sacramento, May 12, 1908 However debilitated they might be, however penniless and destitute, this city, the great focus of mining news, the nearest trading point for the mines situated upon a navigable stream, was the only place that men could think of stopping at for recuperative purposes. Hence, from Cape Horn, from all the Isthmian routes, from' Asiatic seaports and from the islands of the Pacific, men of the most impoverished health were converging at Sacramento. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.