. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. to thestagnant, polluted wa-ter, which was mostlyobtained from theabandoned prospect-holes, of which thestreets were full. Iwas myself taken withtyphoid fever sev-Jl cral weeks prior tothe tirst arrivals over-land, and did not re-cover so as to be ableto work till this camp WOMANS CINCTUKE, HOOPA INDIAN MAKE. —1 .| |-j (^ t ll C UCi Ohbor lU O sections had become overcrowded with the ounce- a visit was the usual fee for medical 1 Reproduced bs permission from Smithsonian Report for 188
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. to thestagnant, polluted wa-ter, which was mostlyobtained from theabandoned prospect-holes, of which thestreets were full. Iwas myself taken withtyphoid fever sev-Jl cral weeks prior tothe tirst arrivals over-land, and did not re-cover so as to be ableto work till this camp WOMANS CINCTUKE, HOOPA INDIAN MAKE. —1 .| |-j (^ t ll C UCi Ohbor lU O sections had become overcrowded with the ounce- a visit was the usual fee for medical 1 Reproduced bs permission from Smithsonian Report for 1886, Part 1. 2 The current trade value of gold dust up to September, 1848, was $12 peroz., at which date the merchants of San Francisco, in a public meeting, nxedthe value at $16 per oz , and, though the actual average value, as determinedby assays, was not far from $18 per oz. the rating established by the merchantswas universally accepted as the standard whileI was in California, and per-hajjs for years thereafter. Sec Hittell. History of California. 112 OFF FOR THE TRINITY. In the latter part of August, Good arrived in Pla-eerville from the Trinity diggings. He had eonie tothis eongested hibor market to employ men to workfor his tirm—Brown, Pfouts & Co.—in that remote sec-tion, where the evil effects from the emiij^ration hadnot been, and were not likely to be, seriously felt. Hesoon engaged about thirty men, at three dollars perday and board. When we were going up the Sacra-mento Valley, the fall before, we met hundre
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