JIMVILLE 



Boy, Jim Baker located the Theresa. 

 When Jim Jenkins opened an eating- 

 house in his tent he chalked up on the 

 flap, " Best meals in Jimville, ^i.oo," and 

 the name stuck. 



There was more human interest in the 

 origin of Squaw Gulch, though it tickled 

 no humor. It was Dimmick's squaw from 

 Aurora way. If Dimmick had been any- 

 thing except New Englander he would 

 have called her a mahala, but that would 

 not have bettered his behavior. Dimmick 

 made a strike, went East, and the squaw 

 who had been to him as his wife took to 

 drink. That was the bald way of stating 

 it in the Aurora country. The milk of 

 human kindness, like some wine, must not' 

 be uncorked too much in speech lest it 

 lose savor. This is what they did. The 

 woman would have returned to her own 

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