 Passengers disembarking in San Francisco had one of the easier accesses to the gold country since they could take another ship from there to get to Sacramento and several other towns.San Francisco shipping boomed, and wharves and piers had to be developed to handle the onslaught of cargo--"Long Wharf" was probably the most prominent.To meet the demands of the Gold Rush, ships bearing food, liquors of many types, tools, hardware, clothing, complete houses, lumber, building materials, etc.