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Nutrioso, sixteen miles southeast of Springerville, is very near the dividing ridge of the Gila and Little Colorado watersheds. "Nutria" was applied to the beaver, of which there were many. The first English-speaking settler was Jas.
"I know, Jas I know anyway, you fix it, honey. I 'ain't got a kick coming a tub like me to have you." She loomed behind his cot, carefully out of his range of vision, her own gaze out across the drowsing countryside. A veil of haze was beginning to thicken, whole schools of crickets whirring into it, "If if not for one thing, Jas, you know you know what?
Her head was bare, her thick hair was loosely coiled, and her brown arms were naked almost to the shoulder. At the stable a young mountaineer was overhauling his riding-gear. "Air you goin' to ride the hoss to-day, Jas?" she asked, querulously. "That's jes whut I was aimin' to do. I'm a-goin' to town." "Well, I 'lowed I was goin' to mill to-day. The co'n is 'mos' gone."
We are just going over the Bar, so I must conclude with my sincere and best wishes for health and every happiness to attend you, my dear sister and family, I am ever, my dear Richard, Affectionately yours, JAS. SAUMAREZ. This short cruize was, however, an unsuccessful one; and the commodore had not yet an opportunity of displaying his valour.
As she did so, a card dropped from under the cord with which it was tied. Maggie Brady, who was watching her closely, sprang forward and snatched it up in an instant. As she laid it on the counter she fairly trembled with rage. She had read the words which were written on the card. They were simply: "To Miss Marvin, with the compliments of Jas. T. Denton."
JAS. RENWICK, A. TALCOTT, JAMES D. GRAHAM, Commissioners. I. Operations during the year 1841. At as early a period as there was any probability of the country being accessible two engineers were dispatched from the city of New York for the purpose of exploring the Rimouski River. This had been crossed by the commissioner late in the previous season.
Y'u air too little 'n' puny, 'n' I want ye to stay home 'n' take keer o' mam 'n' the cattle-ef fightin' does come, I reckon thar won't be triuch." "Don't ye?" cried the boy, with sharp contempt "with ole Jas Lewallen a-devilin' Uncle Rufe, 'n' that blackheaded young Jas a-climbin' on stumps over thar 'cross the river, n' crowin' n' sayin' out open in Hazlan that ye air afeard o him?
In the early spring, the company received as recruits from Tuscaloosa many good men. Feb. 24, 1862 there arrived with Lt. Tarrant, James T. Searcy, John Chancellor, James Manly, Ed. King, Jno. Molette, T. Alex Dearing and ten or twelve others, E. R. Prince, Jas. F. Prince.
January 24, 1898, four of the six returned to San Francisco, guests of the State of California in its celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of gold. They were Henry W. Bigler, Jas. S. Brown, Wm. J. Johnston and Azariah Smith. A group photograph, then taken, is reproduced in this volume.
In case I have not time to write to my brother, as the above has been copied only from the scraps of the letter I intended writing, send him this letter, stating my great hurry and the pressure of service at this crisis. Adieu! nothing can equal my impatience to hear from you, and to receive good accounts of my sister. I am truly, most affectionately yours, JAS. SAUMAREZ.
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