Identifier: notesofvoyagetoc01upha (find matches)
Title: Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849-'50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California."
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis), 1819-1885
Subjects: Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California Voyages to the Pacific coast Ethnic groups Law Business
Publisher: Philadelphia, The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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for some employ-ment whereby I might turn an honest penny.During my sojourn in Stockton, I mixed freelywith the returning and disgusted miners, fromwhom I learned that they were selling their miningimplements at ruinously low prices. An idea struckme one day, which I immediately acted upon, forfear that another might strike in the same j^laceand cause an explosion. The heaven-born ideathat had penetrated my cranium was this : start inthe mercantile line, purchase the tents and imple-ments of the returning miners at low figures, andsell to the greenhorns r;i route to the mines at Cali-fornia prices! I purchased a large tent in whichto store my goods and commenced operations.Fortune smiled on me, and I was hapj^. Butevery rose has its thorn, and * The best laid plans of mice aud mou gang aft agleo. The first rain of the season dampened my ardorand disheartened me. My bowels yearned for theficsh-pots of San Francisco, so, early in Xovember,I bade farewell to Stockton, engaged passage on
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HAPPILY SETTLED IN HAPPY VALLEY. 257 board a scliooncr, and in due course of time reachedthe city of the Goklen Gate. San Francisco, during my absence of two months,had become so changed that I scarcely recognizedit. Substantial frame buildings had supersededfrail canvas tenements, and piers had been extendedmany hundred yards into the bay, at which vesselsfrom the four quarters of the globe were dis-chargingtheir.cargoes. I visited the gold-diggersencampment, Happy Valley, but that too was sochanged, that I could hardly recognize a familiarspot or countenance. A three-story warehouse wasbeing erected on the spot where I had pitched mytent two months previously. The saw and hammerof the carpenter could be heard in every square,and the voice of the crier and auctioneer at thecorner of nearly every street. The Plaza was coveredwith booths, in which could be had the merchandiseof all nations. As hotel accommodations were limited as well asexpensive, I purchased for $100 a ships galley,si

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