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Anyhow the rumor spread like a prairie fire, and men came rushing in from Georgetown, Placerville, Last Chance, Kentucky Flat, Michigan Bluff, Hayden Hill, Dutch Flat, Baker Divide, Yankee Jim, Mayflower, Paradise, Yuba, Deadwood, Jackass Gulch and all the other camps whose locators and residents had not been as fortunate financially as they were linguistically.
The citizens of Placerville prepared to fete the great journalist, and an extra coach, with extra relays of horses, was chartered to the California Stage Company to carry him from Folsom to Placerville distance, forty miles. The extra was in some way delayed, and did not leave Folsom until late in the afternoon. Mr.
"I'll give you ten dollars when we get to Placerville. Now we ARE going!" They were indeed, and at a terrible speed. Crack, crack! went the whip, and again "that voice" split the air. "Git up! Hi yi! G'long! Yip yip!" And on they tore over stones and ruts, up hill and down, at a rate of speed never before achieved by stage horses. Mr.
At Nashville, in fact, I had some difficulty in securing "bed and lodging." There appeared to be only three families in this once flourishing camp. Strange as it may seem, money appears to be no object to people in these sequestered places. You have "to make good," and in this instance it required not a little tact and diplomacy. I arrived at Placerville the following day.
That wealth and prosperity have smiled upon it in late years is evidenced by its comfortable lawn-girdled homes, its thriving orchards, its active business streets, and its truly beautiful, because simple, chaste and dignified, county court-house. Placerville to Sacramento, 47 Miles.
About three months was necessary to move all the outfits and in July 1861, the first daily overland mail running six times a week was started between St. Joseph and Placerville, California, 1,920 miles by the way of Forts Kearney, Bridger, and Salt Lake City. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad had been built into St. Joseph and was doing business by February 1859.
Then to Salt Lake City, Camp Floyd, Ruby Valley, Mountain Wells, across the Humboldt River in Nevada to Bisbys', Carson City, and to Placerville, California; thence to Folsom and Sacramento. Here the mail was taken by a fast steamer down the Sacramento River to San Francisco. A large part of this route traversed the wildest regions of the Continent.
In Placerville known as "Hangtown" in the Bret Harte days I registered at the Cary House, which once had the honor of entertaining no less a personage than Horace Greeley. It was here he terminated his celebrated stage ride with Hank Monk.
The ground was rich with gold here, and if we had gone to digging and washing the very spot on which we slept we could all of us have made a snug fortune; but it was not for us to get rich so quickly. This was our last night together, Hangtown, or Placerville, Eldorado County, as it is to-day, being but a few miles distant.
"That is right, my good fellow," said Mr. Greeley. "I'll give you ten dollars when we get to Placerville. Now we are going!" They were indeed, and at a terrible speed. Crack, crack! went the whip, and again "that voice" split the air, "Get up! Hi-yi! G'long! Yip-yip." And on they tore over stones and ruts, up hill and down, at a rate of speed never before achieved by stage horses. Mr.
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