. Michigan historical collections . climate that is a strong inducement togo. Again your pl^n of farming, instead of gold hunting, is a good plough, the hoe, and the scythe will bring more wealth even in Cali-fornia in my opinion, than gold placers. But in making up your mindabout emigrating you must remember it is a new country and the hard-ships, delay and discouragements of a new country will all be foundthere. You know well what they are and can therefore test in advanceyour readiness to encounter them. I can say nothing more on the sub-ject. My advice would scarcely be worth writi
. Michigan historical collections . climate that is a strong inducement togo. Again your pl^n of farming, instead of gold hunting, is a good plough, the hoe, and the scythe will bring more wealth even in Cali-fornia in my opinion, than gold placers. But in making up your mindabout emigrating you must remember it is a new country and the hard-ships, delay and discouragements of a new country will all be foundthere. You know well what they are and can therefore test in advanceyour readiness to encounter them. I can say nothing more on the sub-ject. My advice would scarcely be worth writing upon paper. As to information on the subject the papers of the day are full ofaccounts, some true and some false about the matter. I see that the NewYork Herald is about to publish an account of the different routes to thatcountry. If I can procure one when published I will send it to persons go around the Ca])e—that is too long a voyage—most go bythe steamboats and over the isthmus from Chagres to Panama. A friend. GOVERNOR AARON T. BLISS. MEMORIAL REPORTS. 629 of mine told me the other day that he had bought steam boat ticketsfrom New York to California. I think he said they cost him |350. (Itis possible it might be |250. My recollection of it is not distinct.) Thisdoes not include the carriage across the isthmus. I send you all I haveon the subject of information about the country—to wit; Emerys Reportand Fremonts Memoir and map. In hasteVery Respectfully Your Obt. Servt. Alpheus Felch. O. Marsh Esq. Battle Creek. So Mr. Marsh became an Argonaut of 49. He lived in California tenyears and then returned East and died in Valenco, Iowa, in 1872. A few words more regarding the genealogy of the family and the sketchof Michigans first State Librarian is at an end. Stephen Voluntine married Martha, a daughter of General SamuelClark of Saratoga. Elizabeth Jane Voluntine, a daughter of this mar-riage, was the grandmother of Gilbert L. Nichols, of Battle Creek. Anothe
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