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"Hope the old captain's up at Sacramento. I'd like to see him." "How large is Sacramento, stranger?" asked a neighbor at the rail. "Large, you say?" answered another. "Make yore guess. Last April when I came out with my pile it had four houses. Now I'm told it's boomin' wuss'n San Francisco and you know what that means." "So you've been to the mines, have you?" invited Mr. Adams.
Major Turner had rented at six hundred dollars a month the office formerly used and then owned by Adams & Co., on the east side of Montgomery Street, between Sacramento and California Streets. B. R. Nisbet was the active partner, and James Reilly the teller.
At Sutterville, the plateau of the Sacramento approached quite near the river, and it would have made a better site for a town than the low, submerged land where the city now stands; but it seems to be a law of growth that all natural advantages are disregarded wherever once business chooses a location.
Among the principal merchants and traders of that winter, at Sacramento, were Sam Brannan and Hensley, Reading & Co.
Requiring a rest, I took lodging in my former quarters, where, on first coming to Sacramento, my son and I resided, and there quietly waited on the Lord; for my having received no monetary compensation whatsoever from any one placed me in a most blessed position of faith and trust, which our Father did not long permit to go unrewarded.
This sum being far in excess of his actual needs, it followed as a matter of course that his cronies assisted him in disposing of it. In fact, "Marshall's pension day" became a local attraction, and the Coloma saloon still in existence the rendezvous. These reunions were varied by glorious excursions to Sacramento, his friends in the legislature imploring him to keep away.
Moreover, Southern California has some serious disadvantages for sheep-grazing which the northern part of the State the Sacramento Valley and the adjoining coast-range and Sierra foot-hills are without, and which begin to tell strongly, now that the wool of this State begins to go upon its merits, and is no longer bought simply as "California wool," regardless of its quality.
"If you call it placed," said Connie, grinning. "We open Monday in Sacramento." "Aha! But why Sacramento?" "Oh, we've got to open somewhere, I suppose! Try it out on the dog, you know!" Connie said, with a sort of bored airiness. "And you, my dear?" said Artheris, turning toward Julia.
"But I know!" the mason exclaimed with rising excitement. "I've seen it over and over, everywhere. I've seen it in my own family," he said in a burst of bitter confidence. "There were eight of us and we were only middling poor until father died. The old man was a carpenter, up north in Sacramento County. He had a small place outside of town and we raised some stuff.
"You can say to the Sacramento agents, Bill, that I am entirely satisfied, and" "Ye needn't fear but I'll give ye a good character," interrupted Bill coolly, gathering up his lines. The whip snapped, the six horses dashed forward as one, the coach plunged down the road and was gone. With its disappearance, Mr. Mayfield stiffened slightly again. "I have just told your aunt, Mr.
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