Orange (colour) it contains arsenic and is highly toxic. It was also used as a fly poison and to poison arrows. Because of its yellow-orange colour, it was also a favourite with alchemists searching for a way to make gold, in both China and the West. Before the late 15th century, the colour orange existed in Europe, but without the name; it was simply called yellow-red. Portuguese merchants brought the first orange trees to Europe from Asia in the late 15th and early 16th century, along with the Sanskrit "naranga", which gradually became part of several European languages: "naranja" in Spanish, "laranja"
El Dorado County, California through El Dorado County until its replacement with the telegraph service in 1861; U.S. Highway 50 follows the Pony Express route today. The "Placerville Mountain Democrat", California's oldest surviving newspaper, serves El Dorado County. The El Dorado County Sheriff provides court protection, county jail administration, and coroner service for all of the county and provides patrol and detective services for the unincorporated areas of the county. Placerville, population 11,000, has a municipal police department, as does South Lake Tahoe, population 22,000. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and