. The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days;. .•RITE OKrKX. ! 176 THE ARGOXAVTS OF CALIFOKXIA. were finally forgotten. In one instance, a man from an EasternState, leaving a wife and several daughters to care for themselves,arrived here in 50. He soon forgot his family in the East, butafter a few years, being verv unsuccessful in his mining and busi-ness matters, and hearing that his daughters had made wealthy. THE SURPRISE. marriages, concluded to surprise them with a visit. As the resultl)roved, he was
. The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days;. .•RITE OKrKX. ! 176 THE ARGOXAVTS OF CALIFOKXIA. were finally forgotten. In one instance, a man from an EasternState, leaving a wife and several daughters to care for themselves,arrived here in 50. He soon forgot his family in the East, butafter a few years, being verv unsuccessful in his mining and busi-ness matters, and hearing that his daughters had made wealthy. THE SURPRISE. marriages, concluded to surprise them with a visit. As the resultl)roved, he was himself the most surprised man in that section ofthe country, for nyne of them knew him and would not even recog-nize him, a daughter saying that as he had never written nor sentthem one dollar to assist them, therefore he could not be theirfather, and they kindly bade him farewell. He returned to Cali-fornia a sadder, but a more single man. THE ARGONAUTS OF CALIFORNIA. 177 Previous to the discovery of the old river channels in the hills,it was the almost universal opinion, I think, that the mines would ina very few years be entirely worked out, and all would be compelledto return to their Eastern homes; but by the discovery of the hillgravel mining, the time necessary to accomplish this in was ofcourse extended to a later day, and taken in connection, also, withthe fact of the other very important discoveries, that good land wasfound in some of the other counties, it looked very reasonable
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