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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 1: early recollections of California. 1846-1848. (search)
t he (Sutter) was engaged in erecting a saw-mill at Coloma, about forty miles up the American Fork, above his was first found in the tail-race of the saw-mill at Coloma, forty miles above Sutter's Fort, or fifteen above a family, in the winter of 1847-48, were living at Coloma, where the pine-trees afforded the best material fo for a preemption to the quarter-section of land at Coloma. Marshall returned to the mill, but could not keepnse enough to know that if placer --gold existed at Coloma, it would also be found farther down-stream, and the mining was in progress; and about noon we reached Coloma the place where gold had been first discovered. Thate of facts as before existed at Mormon Island and Coloma, and we daily received intelligence of the opening of the land, we formed a partnership in a store at Coloma, in charge of Norman S. Bestor, who had been Warnerd dollars each), and Bestor carried on the store at Coloma for his share. Out of this investment, each of us
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 2: early recollections of California--(continued). 1849-1850. (search)
ccurred as to the gold-mines. He never took a title to a town-lot, unless it was one, of no real value, from Alcalde Colton, in Monterey, of which I have never heard since. He did take a share in the store which Warner, Bestor, and I, opened at Coloma, paid his share of the capital, five hundred dollars, and received his share of the profits, fifteen hundred dollars. I think also he took a share in a venture to China with Larkin and others; but, on leaving California, he was glad to sell out w sixty feet would rent for a thousand dollars a month. I had, as my pay, seventy dollars a month, and no one would even try to hire a servant under three hundred dollars. Had it not been for the fifteen hundred dollars I had made in the store at Coloma, I could not have lived through the winter. About the 1st of April arrived the steamer Oregon; but her captain (Pearson) knew what was the state of affairs on shore, and ran his steamer alongside the line-of-battle-ship Ohio at Saucelito, and ob