}\ 18933 Obstacles to Settlement of Estate 



Back in the '50's when we both were young — 

 I and the river. Well, it seemed so then. 

 We both have had too much of mining camps; 

 No winter rains can wash their stains away. 



Oh, yes; he built the railroad through these hills, 

 For luck stuck to him — he would not let go 

 When it came to him; that was just his way. 

 To some men luck comes once and not again, 

 To some men it comes once and stays with them 

 Because they never let it go. 



They say he left his money to the world 

 And left the world forever richer for it; 

 It may be that's his luck — I do not know. 

 If so, the world is lucky. 



There's the stage, 

 And you must go across to Placerville; 

 You should have been here thirty years ago 

 When Horace Greeley rode to Placerville 

 And Hank Monk held the ribbons. 



What! You say 

 "Old Hank become a chestnut!" Well, goodby. 



As already stated, it was Stanford's intention 

 and that of his wife to give their whole estate to the 

 University; they had, moreover, arranged that 

 the one to survive should complete the endowment. 

 Because of two tremendous obstacles that pur- 

 pose was brought about only after six years of most 

 persistent effort. These obstacles were, first, the 

 legal necessity of clearing the estate of all obliga- 

 tions — a process made almost impossible by a 

 sequence of extraordinary complications with which 



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