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San Rafael, Marin County, California (California, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 4
custody, and I happened to be in Commodore Jones's cabin when the baron presented the one for him from the Secretary of the Navy. The baron was anxious to pitch in at once, and said that all he needed to start with were salt and barrels. After some inquiries of his purser, the commodore promised to let him have the barrels with their salt, as fast as they were emptied by the crew. Then the baron explained that he could get a nice lot of cattle from Don Timoteo Murphy, at the Mission of San Rafael, on the north side of the bay, but he could not get a boat and crew to handle them. Under the authority from the Secretary of the Navy, the commodore then promised him the use of a boat and crew, until he (the baron) could find and purchase a suitable one for himself. Then the baron opened the first regular butcher-shop in San Francisco, on the wharf about the foot of Broadway or Pacific Street, where we could buy at twenty-five or fifty cents a pound the best roasts, steaks, and cuts of
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 4
ccessor arrived, all things were so disposed that a civil form of government was an easy matter of adjustment. Colonel Mason was relieved by General Riley some time in April, and left California in the steamer of the 1st May for Washington and St. Louis, where he died of cholera in the summer of 1850, and his body is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery. His widow afterward married Major (since General) Don Carlos Buell, and is now living in Kentucky. In overhauling the hold of the steamer Cal this small beginning, step by step, he rose in a few months to be one of the richest and most influential men in San Francisco; but in his wild speculations he was at last caught, and became helplessly bankrupt. He followed General Fremont to St. Louis in 1861, where I saw him, but soon afterward ho died a pauper in one of the hospitals. When General Smith had his headquarters in San Francisco, in the spring of 1849, Steinberger gave dinners worthy any baron of old; and when, in after-years,
San Joaquin (California, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 4
raged us to go into any business that would enable us to make money. R. P. Hammond, James Blair, and I, made a contract to survey for Colonel J. D. Stevenson his newly-projected city of New York of the Pacific, situated at the mouth of the San Joaquin River. The contract embraced, also, the making of soundings and the marking out of a channel through Suisun Bay. We hired, in San Francisco, a small metallic boat, with a sail, laid in some stores, and proceeded to the United States ship Ohio, d, we harnessed up again, and reached the crossing of the Cosumnes, where our survey was to begin. The expediente, or title-papers, of the ranch described it as containing nine or eleven leagues on the Cosumnes, south side, and between the San Joaquin River and Sierra Nevada Mountains. We began at the place where the road crosses the Cosumnes, and laid down a line four miles south, perpendicular to the general direction of the stream; then, surveying up the stream, we marked each mile so as t
United States (United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 4
we entered the Heads, and anchored off San Francisco, near the United States line-of-battle-ship Ohio, Commodore T. Ap Catesby Jones. As wadants; and the general, commanding all the mighty forces of the United States on the Pacific coast, had to scratch to get one good meal a daye--Baron Steinberger. He had been a great cattle-dealer in the United States, and boasted that he had helped to break the United States Bankth and Major Ogden concluded to send their families back to the United States, and afterward we menfolks could take to camp and live on our ric boat, with a sail, laid in some stores, and proceeded to the United States ship Ohio, anchored at Saucelito, where we borrowed a sailor-boreed that on the first good opportunity he would send me to the United States as a bearer of dispatches, but this he could not do until he haoma, and was generally regarded as the Government candidate for United States Senator. General Riley as Governor, and Captain Halleck as Sec
California (California, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 4
onthly line of steamers from those cities to California, via Panama. Lieutenant-Colonel Burton had e around Cape Horn, but none had yet reached California. The arrival of this steamer was the begihina with Larkin and others; but, on leaving California, he was glad to sell out without profit or ler that they were the only real gentlemen in California. I confess that the fidelity of Colonel Masvery question. There were no slaves then in California, save a few who had come out as servants, buthe Union in the war with Mexico. Still, in California there was little feeling on the subject. I en from our Southern States. This matter of California being a free State, afterward, in the nationassociated during our four years together in California, and I felt his loss deeply. The season wasd, the immigrants overland came pouring into California, dusty and worn with their two thousand mile. Crawford, who questioned me somewhat about California, but seemed little interested in the subject[12 more...]
Sutterville (California, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 4
work for him at five hundred dollars a day for the party. Having finished our work on the Cosumnes, we proceeded to Sacramento, where Captain Sutter employed us to connect the survey of Sacramento City, made by Lieutenant Warner, and that of Sutterville, three miles below, which was then being surveyed by Lieutenant J. W. Davidson, of the First Dragoons. 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 lowSutterville, 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. Old Sutter's embarcadero became Sacramento City, simply because it was the first point used for unloading boats for Sutter's Fort, just as the site for San Francisco was fixed by the use of Yerba Buena as the hide-landing for the Mission of San Francisco de Asis. I invested my earnings in this survey in three lots in Sacramento
Sacramento City (Missouri, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 4
ed our work on the Cosumnes, we proceeded to Sacramento, where Captain Sutter employed us to connect the survey of Sacramento City, made by Lieutenant Warner, and that of Sutterville, three miles belocation. Old Sutter's embarcadero became Sacramento City, simply because it was the first point us earnings in this survey in three lots in Sacramento City, on which I made a fair profit by a sale h my cousin Charley Hoyt, who had a store in Sacramento, and was on the point of moving up to a ranca line was established from San Francisco to Sacramento, of which the Senator was the pioneer, chargnterey, I was sent by General Smith up to Sacramento City to instruct Lieutenants Warner and Williato his control, and with this to purchase at Sacramento flour, bacon, etc., and to hire men and mulen most useful to the country. I remained at Sacramento a good part of the fall of 1849, recognizing and went out with Rucker. While I was at Sacramento General Smith had gone on his contemplated t[1 more...]
Feather (California, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 4
assing that range by a railroad, a subject that then elicited universal interest. It was generally assumed that such a road could not be made along any of the immigrant roads then in use, and Warner's orders were to look farther north up the Feather River, or some one of its tributaries. Warner was engaged in this survey during the summer and fall of 1849, and had explored, to the very end of Goose Lake, the source of Feather River. Then, leaving Williamson with the baggage and part of the mFeather River. Then, leaving Williamson with the baggage and part of the men, he took about ten men and a first-rate guide, crossed the summit to the east, and had turned south, having the range of mountains on his right hand, with the intention of regaining his camp by another pass in the mountain. The party was strung out, single file, with wide spaces between, Warner ahead. lie had just crossed a small valley and ascended one of the spurs covered with sage-brush and rocks, when a band of Indians rose up and poured in a shower of arrows. The mule turned and ran
Far West (Missouri, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 4
sfield, Ohio. I only had a two months leave of absence, during which General Smith, his staff, and a retinue of civil friends, were making a tour of the gold-mines, and hearing that he was en route back to his headquarters at Sonoma, I knocked off my work, sold my instruments, and left my wagon and mules with my cousin Charley Hoyt, who had a store in Sacramento, and was on the point of moving up to a ranch, for which he had bargained, on Bear Creek, on which was afterward established Camp Far West. He afterward sold the mules, wagon, etc., for me, and on the whole I think I cleared, by those two months work, about six thousand dollars. I then returned to headquarters at Sonoma, in time to attend my fellow aide-de-camp Gibbs through a long and dangerous sickness, during which he was on board a store-ship, guarded by Captain George Johnson, who now resides in San Francisco. General Smith had agreed that on the first good opportunity he would send me to the United States as a bearer of
San Jose (California, United States) (search for this): volume 1, chapter 4
friends; but he never bought land or town-lots, because, he said, it was his place to hold the public estate for the Government as free and unencumbered by claims as possible; and when I wanted him to stop the public-land sales in San Francisco, San Jose, etc., he would not; for, although he did not believe the titles given by the alcaldes worth a cent, yet they aided to settle the towns and public lands, and he thought, on the whole,.the Government would be benefited thereby. The same thing ocatter of California being a free State, afterward, in the national Congress, gave rise to angry debates, which at one time threatened civil war. The result of the convention was the election of State officers, and of the Legislature which sat in San Jose in October and November, 1849, and which elected Fremont and Gwin as the first United States Senators in Congress from the Pacific coast. Shortly after returning from Monterey, I was sent by General Smith up to Sacramento City to instruct Lie
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