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 . of 1862. Eugenestayed with his father until 1864. enga,ging with him in placer mining. In the latter year, when Horace Salter went to Helena Mont., to meet his wife,who had come across the mountains and plains with another son and a was left in Boise Basin. Idaho. The fatlier thereafter took up land in GallatinValley. Mont., and Eugene joined his parents there in 1866.
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 . of 1862. Eugenestayed with his father until 1864. enga,ging with him in placer mining. In the latter year, when Horace Salter went to Helena Mont., to meet his wife,who had come across the mountains and plains with another son and a was left in Boise Basin. Idaho. The fatlier thereafter took up land in GallatinValley. Mont., and Eugene joined his parents there in 1866. Before he took up Salter tried placer mining in the vicinity of ^?irginia City, but in 1865 he dis-posed of his mine. Some of the experiences of the Salters are instructive as affording a glimpse atthe real conditions then prevalent in the great West. and what the sturdy pioneerhad to contend with. Horace Salter sent two men to the Bitter Root \alleyfrom Gallatin Valley in 1866 to purchase seed wheat; but they could buy only oneand a half bushels of wheat, and paid fifty dollars a bushel for what they got, sothat thf cost of this trip was $300. Eugenes father also paid $500 for a brood sow. a^t^x^ /^ HISTORY OF ORANGE COLXTY 1069 and the following year he sold the litter of ten pigs at seventy-five dollars per headas soon as they were old enough to be taken away. He paid $100 for a sack of whiteflour, and when he ran a dairy farm, in 1867-68, he sold butter at $ per paid $6,000 for an eight-horse threshing machine, and charged twenty-five centsa bushel to thresh grain grown in 1868. He sold barley for brewing at twenty-ninedollars a hundred weight. In 1869 Eugene Salter came to San Juan Capistrano and rented a ranch; andthree years later, his father having taken up a quarter-section of land, he also took upa quarter-section in the Gospel Swamp district, but eventually they were beaten outof it. In 1879 Eugene Salter went to Colorado, where he stayed unt
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