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No. XXXMilpitas, Santa Clara Co., Cal., June 11th 1863“Moving on”
Dear Memorial and Rock:--
Having just returned from a trip to San Francisco, I will give you a few notes on what I saw there. I found it the same bustling, noisy, rushing city as ever, and not having been there for some six months, I could not but note the improvements which had been brought about in that short space of time. Many splendid buildings had been erected including one or two first class hotels, fine, large, elegant, stone buildings. Then through all the principal streets, tracks are laid, and every few minutes the... |
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California Correspondence.No. XXXIIComo, Palmyra District, N. T.,Sept. 14, 1863
EDS. MEMORIAL & ROCK:-
Since my last letter, the machinery and material for the first mill in this District has arrived, and is now in process of erection. The work is being hurried forward just as fast as the energetic application of unlimited capital will admit of, and in less than two months from now, we expect the mill to start, crushing the rich rock. Other mills will soon be erected here, but this is the one that will tell the most important story - the richness or poverty of the District. It took some... |
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Nevada Correspondence.No. XXXIX.Virginia, Nev. July 11th, 1865.
Eds. Memorial and Rock:--
The Glorious Fourth
Has come and gone, but in the hurry and bustle consequent on the preparations for and celebration of that grand national day, I came near forgetting you, but you see I have not. We celebrated the day here with far more than usual spirit in every sense of the word, as is shown by the records of the police court the next day, although the officers were as lenient as their conscience would allow, and took none to the station house except those who were disorderly as well as very drunk.... |
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Nevada Correspondence.No. XLI.Virginia, Nev., April 19, 1866.
Editor Memorial and Rock:
April Fool Day.
Being the last great holiday observed here, in this land of sage-brush and silver ledges, except Sundays, which are always celebrated in a great measure as such, among all Christian nations, I will speak of, by way of commencement to my letter. Not because it was the commencement of the month, particularly, or that I should have commenced this letter long before that date; but because I saw more people made "April fools" of by means of all sorts of foolish devices on that occasion, than I... |
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Nevada Correspondence.No. XLII.Virginia, Nev. May, 13, 1867.
Editor Memorial and Rock:-- Time rolls on; and the days, months, and years, like so many chips, still go ever floating onward, ceaselessly borne on the bosom of the great broad tide which empties into the illimitable sea of eternity. The mighty Mississippi still pours its vast volume of many stenched waters into the blue Atlantic, Hobbs' Hole Brook and Eel River continue to contribute their aqueous torrents towards the general good and welfare of this mundane world, as they did in ages past, when ye gentle savage roamed... |
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Nevada Correspondence.No. XLIII.Virignia, Nev., July 22, 1867.
Editor Memorial and Rock:
The Glorious Fourth
came and went at the usual time, and was generally observed throughout that portion of the Pacific coast included in Uncle Samuel's farm, after the good old style. Tons of gunpowder, ship loads of fire crackers, rockets, and all that sort of thing were destroyed, and noise, patriotism, "marching through Georgia" and general hilarity was the order of the day. In fact as far as this city was concerned, the way some fellows "swung round the circle," and kept on "marching through Georgia"... |
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