6 Gold Rush Album
	In 1848, Walter Colton, the alcalde or chief magistrate of Monterey (above), noted that the town's hospitality was so free a public hotel was hard put to keep open. The town of San Francisco was prospering in these years. According to some of its inhabitants who were still living in the Eighteen-eighties, the view below was a true rendering of how it looked early in 1847 at the time its name was changed from Yerba Buena.