Arizona's yesterday . r. I did not accompany the troopson this occasion, having been detailed to the SantaRita range to bring in lumber to be used in buildinghouses. I returned from the Santa Ritas in July and foundan order had been received at the Fort from the WarDepartment that all men whose times had expiredor were shortly to expire should be congregated inTucson and from there marched to California fortheir discharge. A few weeks later I went to theOld Pueblo and, together with several hundredothers from all parts of the Territory, was musteredout and started on the return march to Wilmin
Arizona's yesterday . r. I did not accompany the troopson this occasion, having been detailed to the SantaRita range to bring in lumber to be used in buildinghouses. I returned from the Santa Ritas in July and foundan order had been received at the Fort from the WarDepartment that all men whose times had expiredor were shortly to expire should be congregated inTucson and from there marched to California fortheir discharge. A few weeks later I went to theOld Pueblo and, together with several hundredothers from all parts of the Territory, was musteredout and started on the return march to Wilmingtonwhere we arrived about October 1. On the twelfthof October I was discharged. After working as cook for a short time for a com-pany that was constructing a railroad from Wil-mington to Los Angeles, I moved to the latter placeand obtained employment in the Old Bella UnionHotel as chef. John King was the proprietor of theBella Union. Until Christmas eve I stayed there,and then Sergeant John Curtis, of my company, who. Rough and Tumble 45 had been working as a saddler for Banning, a cap-italist in Wilmington, came back to the kitchen andsaid: John, old sport, lets go to Frisco. I havent, I told him, enough change to set emup across the street, let alone go to Frisco. For answer Curtis pulled out a wallet, drew there-from a roll of bills that amounted to about $1,000,divided the pile into two halves, laid them on thetable and indicated them with his forefinger. John, he offered, if youll come with me youcan put one of those piles in your pocket. What doyou say? Inasmuch- as I had had previously little oppor-tunity to really explore San Francisco, the idea ap-pealed to me and we shook hands on the morning, fine, cloudless and warm, foundus seated on the San Jose stage. San Jose then wasnearly as large a place as Tucson is now—abouttwenty odd thousand, if I remember rightly. Thestage route carried us through the mission coun-try now so widely exploited by the r
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