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of the business, which, by the way, had Banning as a 

 sharp competitor. Timms had paid every cent honestly, 

 and with Goller, persuaded me to take the management 

 of the San Pedro house at one hundred and twenty dol- 

 lars and board— a position which I held about four 

 months, when I thought it better to look about for a 

 new occupation— greatly to Goller 's regret. 



Annaheim, an attractive German settlement, owned by 

 fifty stockholders, who propose to have set out five hun- 

 dred thousand vines. After three years each holder 

 shall be entitled to twenty acres of land— twelve of 

 which are to be in vineyard with ten thousand vines, 

 while the remaining eight acres are to be planted as the 

 holders may direct. My old friend George Hansen, of 

 the Mojave surveying expedition, is the superintendent, 

 who engages me for sixty dollars and board. There I 

 am at the close of 1858. But how long? 



December, 1859. 

 My stay at Annaheim was of short duration as it is 

 too monotonous and disagreeable a job to watch a gang 

 of Indians and half-breeds all day long at the selfsame 

 field labors, where the mind has absolutely nothing to 

 do. I left there toward the end of January and rode 

 leisurely toward Los Angeles. At "Wilmington I met 

 Banning 's manager, Wm. Sanford, who offered me Thos. 

 Workman's place as first clerk during the latter's vaca- 

 tion. Banning paid me two hundred dollars for six 

 week's work. Meanwhile Goller was in despair again, 

 and, of course, I was his Moses and took hold of his 

 business again at little more than the last paid salary. 

 Phineas Banning with an eye to monopoly bought out 

 Goller 's San Pedro venture and engaged me at one hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars and board. With the exception 

 of a month of absence, I have been holding this position 

 ever since, though business demanded a reduction in 

 wages. 



