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Miller: life at that very important time. The captain of the 

 "Royal Arrow," which was a sister ship, came to me 

 and he said, "Johnny Miller, I've heard your story." 



And I thought, "Well, what have I done wrong now? 

 This gold?" There wasn't anything wrong about it at 

 that time because in California we had nothing but 

 gold. I remember distinctly that in 1914 when the 

 depression came people wouldn*t take paper money, and 

 I then urged them to take paper money enough so that 

 they could buy their food with it, half in gold and 

 half in paper. So the gold that they had they could 

 hide in the ground or do anything they wanted with 

 it. This was the way I used to satisfy them. I went 

 every month by horse and wagon into Richmond and 

 cashed these checks for these men for around $40,000 

 a month. 



Anyway, the captain came to me and I got quite 

 worried about it. He said, "Now, you know you're 

 getting some gold for the captain of the 'Princess 

 Arrow. 1 " 



And I said, "Well, I can't get any more. I can 

 just do with so much and that's about as much as we 



