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100 1 $aEgan, Ferol.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50030257
245 10 $aLast bonanza kings :$bthe Bourns of San Francisco /$cFerol Egan.
260 $aReno :$bUniversity of Nevada Press,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $a289 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-278) and index.
520 $aWhile the great mining bonanzas of the nineteenth-century West made eastern California and Nevada the subject of legend, much of the wealth from the mines flowed to San Francisco and made possible the growth of the city and some fabulous personal fortunes. Among the wealthiest and most powerful of the Bonanza Kings was William Bowers Bourn I and his son and successor, William Bowers Bourn II.
520 8 $aThe elder Bourn, descendant of an early New England family, arrived in San Francisco shortly after the discovery of gold in the Sierra foothills. Although he eventually invested heavily in mines in Grass Valley and on the Comstock, his initial success was as a businessman in the booming port city.
520 8 $aThe younger Bourn built upon his fathers success, expanding the Empire Mine in Grass Valley into one of the largest, most productive, and most technologically advanced hard-rock gold mines in the West, acquiring additional mining properties on the Comstock and on Treasure Hill in eastern Nevada, and developing a range of business ventures, including a vast water system that was to become the basis for San Francisco's present water supply.
520 8 $aLike many other wealthy men of his generation, William Bourn II was a generous donor to worthy causes and an enthusiastic patron of the arts, supporting such projects as the San Francisco Symphony, the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915, the construction of the present quarters of the Pacific Union Club, and the creation of his own final home, Filoli, a vast Italianate estate on the Peninsula south of San Francisco.
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112028
600 10 $aBourn, William,$d1813-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98006421
600 10 $aBourn, William,$d1857-1936.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98006429
650 0 $aPioneers$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$vBiography.
650 0 $aBusinessmen$zCalifornia$zSan Francisco$vBiography.
600 30 $aBourne family.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016123
651 0 $aSan Francisco (Calif.)$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116871
852 00 $boff,glx$hF869.S353$iB684 1998