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The news interested the captain but history failed to record whether or not Salcedo could reach the region which to him must seemed fabulous, or whether or not there was really gold.

The people who had been attracted to the place by the news of gold have been sadly disappointed to find that there was little or no truth to the report.

Instead of retracting their steps, however they at once diverted their attention from the gold and began to make settlements.

They began to build homes and tilled the soil and raised rice, corn, camote and other products.

Soon, more intelligent wave immigrating people came.

More lands were cleared and much wider areas were cultivated until it became a prosperous settlement.