. The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days;. m had concluded toexamine the Kootenai country, in British Columbia. Jeff remarked: Well, now, boys, we are soon to part again, each to go his ownway, but all determined to continue in the old business of pros-pecting to the end, unless we strike a pile in time to enjoy a fewyears before we go, relief from our labor in quiet and comfort downin the big city by the sea. Yes, says Yank, and we will continue in this business forall time. And just let the present generat
. The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days;. m had concluded toexamine the Kootenai country, in British Columbia. Jeff remarked: Well, now, boys, we are soon to part again, each to go his ownway, but all determined to continue in the old business of pros-pecting to the end, unless we strike a pile in time to enjoy a fewyears before we go, relief from our labor in quiet and comfort downin the big city by the sea. Yes, says Yank, and we will continue in this business forall time. And just let the present generation hand it down to theirchildren, and to their childrens children, as well as to all futuregenerations who will make their dwelling places throughout theold mining regions, that those phantoms that are occasionally seenwandering about among the ravines and canons in the dead hoursof , carrying upon their backs rolls of blankets, as well as anold tin pan, pick and shovel, are only the restless spirits of a fewold miners who are, from force of habit, hunting for some spot THE ARGON A UTS OF CALIFOKXIA. •g. .^*- .^;^^. WALLACE, IDAHO TKkKlTOKY. 340 THE ARGONAUTS OF CALIFORNIA. where they can get a few colors to the pan, and find the bed rockpitching. They are the spirits of Jeff, Yank, Old Pike, Tennessee,Jersey and Jim, the old Forty-niners. It is now forty years since a few thousands of hardy adventurerssailed out upon the broad ocean from the various sea ports on theAtlantic coast, and also about an equal number of thousandscrossed the barren plains in that eventful and long - to - be-remembered year of 1849, to follow upon the trail of the Star of theWestward-bound Empire, which, tradition said, was coursing acrossthe continent, and which was supposed to have finally set some-where upon the Pacific Coast. And what a transformation hastaken place since their arrival upon the shores of California ! Here,where we first landed, where all appeared like a vast army encamp-m
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