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and remarked to me that I might consider 

 him to wait till I could report from Camp 



shorter return-route before hi' decided, for 

 which would be from 30 to 50 miles shortei 



June 15, PlacervWe.—Remam here to-t 

 a few supplies over the Sierra Nevada to p* 

 tongues and couplings, and think it well to 

 a few other things to meet contingencies. 



Visited steam-crushm- quartz-mill in 

 has 20 vertical iron Tamps, about 2 inches ii 



zontally about 200 yards, and is about 40 yards below the superior surface of tin 

 ground.. I entered the shaft and saw the miners at work getting out the masses o 

 quartz. It is singular that in any of the quartz I saw I could not, with the eye, deter 

 the slightest speck of gold; and yet I am told the investment in the business is a gotrt 

 one. 



Visited, with Major Dodge, Colonel Bee and lady, and were regaled with fresl 

 strawberries from their garden, and branched peaches, which were the first foretaste 

 had had of the fine rich fruits for which this region is famous. The colonel has i 

 pretty cottage residence, tastefully adorned with flowers and fruit-trees, and conspicu 

 ous in his garden is a windmill, by which the water is raised from a well and so con- 

 ducted by small canals as to irrigate the soil. The windmill, I notice, is quite a com 

 mon feature in the landscape of this country, and has become so on account ot tin 

 necessity of irrigating the soil to make it productive, to which purpose it is applied. 



Ordered a bill of supplies to be transported to Genoa, at 7 cents per pound. Tin 

 usual charge, I am told, is about 5 cents, but in order to insure their being carried ovei 

 immediately, I am obliged to pay 7 cents. One cent per pound is to be forfeited i 

 not delivered by the 22d instant. The cause of this heavy charge for transportatioi 

 is the steep, rocky character of the portion of the road over the east range ot th< 

 Sierra Nevada, between Lake Valley ami Carson Valley, which I shall examine on nn 

 return to Genoa, and on which the Californians have expended no labor, tor the rea 

 son, doubtless, that it lies mostly, if not entirely, in I tali. 



June 16, PlacervMe,— Left with Major Dodge for Folsom, 2s miles distant, at 6 a 

 m., Pi-Ute interpreter Dick in company. Conveyance the finest kind of stages, an. 



fist at LJuroc's. At Folsom took railroad-cars for Sacramento, the capital of the State 



