. Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849-'50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California." . ^, and common laborers receive from $6to $8 per day. Provisions and building materialsare exorbitantly high, but clothing and dry-goodsare selling as low as in the States. An article indemand will sell at any price your conscience willallow you to ask for it. I sold a force-pump thatcost $40 in Philadelphia to
. Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years of 1849-'50. With an appendix containing reminiscences ... together with the articles of association and roll of members of "The associated pioneers of the territorial days of California." . ^, and common laborers receive from $6to $8 per day. Provisions and building materialsare exorbitantly high, but clothing and dry-goodsare selling as low as in the States. An article indemand will sell at any price your conscience willallow you to ask for it. I sold a force-pump thatcost $40 in Philadelphia to a Californian for $175,and he considered that he got it remarkably cheap,as he afterwards informed me. I assured himthat I was perfectly satisfied, and that my motto inbusiness was, quick sales and light profits. Tlie climate of San Francisco, though reputedhealthy, is not agreeable to the unacclimated. Themornings and evenings during the spring and sum-mer months are damp and chilly, and at meridian thethermometer is usually somewhere in the neighbor-. JiJaii|-^i-^£^ .li-JLii^^^t t, + i.^
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