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"What is a lost mine?" asked Wilbur. Merritt looked at him a moment thoughtfully, then turned to the prospector. "You tell the yarn," he said. "You probably know it better than I do." "I'm not much on talkin'," began the prospector. "Away back in the sixties, after the first gold-rush, Jock Burns, one of the old Forty-niners, started prospectin' in the Sierras.
"Abraham Schell was born in Gallupville, and proposes to be buried in the neighboring village of Middleburgh, his wife's native place, where he has erected a monument. "They say that all Forty-niners who remained in California either became millionaires or paupers. It seems that Mr. Schell was one of the former.
You could not think of Jimville as anything more than a survival, like the herb-eating, bony-cased old tortoise that pokes cheerfully about those borders some thousands of years beyond his proper epoch. Not that Jimville is old, but it has an atmosphere favorable to the type of a half century back, if not "forty-niners," of that breed.
For seven or eight years afterwards rumours kept floating in to the company's forts of finds of gold. Many of the company's servants drifted away to California in the wake of the 'Forty-Niners, and the company found it hard to keep its trappers from deserting all up and down the Pacific Coast. The quest for gold had become a sort of yellow-fever madness.
"I'm dreadfully worried about them." "Hello!" It was O'Grady's voice. "Here comes horses down the road two of them. I believe it's our folks." And he bolted out into the moonlight, followed by the others. It was, and a more exhausted and bedraggled couple it would have been hard to find. "Look like a pair of forty-niners," said O'Grady, "on the last lap of the trip."
The California Pioneer Society was organized in August, 1850. The photograph of their building appears on the cover of this book, W.D.M. Howard was their first president. Among their early presidents, and prominent in the days of Forty-niners, were Samuel Branan, Thomas Larkins, Wm. D. Farewell, and James Lick who liberally endowed it.
It was the same allurement which drew the "forty-niners" to California, and in 1897 the gold-seekers to the Canadian Klondyke. If the suffering endured was often great, the prize to be gained was worth it.
But the trouble is that we are neither "forty-niners" nor peasants, but just plain, latter-day housekeepers with a laundry problem to face, and finding that it, like most other problems, is best solved by attacking it boldly, systematically, and according to certain fixed rules.
The fur traders used it, the Forty-Niners used it, the cattlemen used it in part, the railroads used it; and, lastly, the settlers and farmers used it most of all. In physical features the Platte River route was similar to that of the Arkansas Valley.
Two other books may be mentioned which furnish information of some value: Alfred Robinson, Life in California and Walter Colton, Three Years in California . Personal journals and narratives of the Forty-niners are numerous, but they must be used with caution. Their accuracy is frequently open to question.
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