History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . (^ ^cU^^y. ^ijA^^-y^a^ kH^. LAJ-aX^^^>n^^L^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 387 wagons contained something substantial, such as hardware, tools and the like. Heleft Jackson County, Mo., in 1849, and after a journey of three months, pulled upat Sacramento. He went to Bear Creek, and soon after to Dry Creek, built a hoteland engaged in freighting to Nevada and the adjoining mining towns. He
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . (^ ^cU^^y. ^ijA^^-y^a^ kH^. LAJ-aX^^^>n^^L^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COUNTY 387 wagons contained something substantial, such as hardware, tools and the like. Heleft Jackson County, Mo., in 1849, and after a journey of three months, pulled upat Sacramento. He went to Bear Creek, and soon after to Dry Creek, built a hoteland engaged in freighting to Nevada and the adjoining mining towns. He received$100 a day for a team, wagon and driver, and for three yoke of oxen, a wagon anddriver he received $300 a day, but flour was then a dollar a pound, mining bootsiifty dollars a pair, and other essentials proportionately high. As a mere boy, Jonathan Watson drove teams; in fact, he drove the first loadof freight that ever came into Nevada City, Cal. He passed through Hangtown,and there saw three desperadoes dangling by the neck, the work of education was very limited, for from a boy he assisted his father in the sheepbusiness. Henry Watson and his family first lived in the Santa Clara Valley, m
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