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A SEA CAPTAIN AS COOK—A HERD OF DEER—RETURN TO MORMON BAR—KEEPING HOUSE 
—OUR MACHINE IN MOTION— $1,500 IN ONE HOUR—AN ELOPEMENT—'WASH DAY 
SPORTING—PROSPECTING—DISCOVERY OF GOLD—EXCITEMENT—FATIGUE—THE CAKES 
“HURRIED UP”—INCENTIVES TO EXERTION—CANALLING A BAR. 
We rose in the morning with renewed vigor, and after break¬ 
fast, thoroughly prospecting our bar, (see Plate,) we moved 
on up the river. We found the passage in many places ex¬ 
tremely difficult, obliging us to climb precipices to the height 
of two to three hundred feet. We examined closely, but found 
no place sufficiently rich to pay for working. At about 12 M. 
we arrived at a bar that was being worked by a company that 
had recently purchased it of another company for $2,500. 
Their labor was attended with fair success, but they did not 
succeed in making wages after paying the above sum. There 
is a law established by custom in the mines, which allows a man 
a certain space, generally ten feet, extending across the river. 
It is by this law that companies take possession of bars, and their 
claim is never disputed, as it is a privilege of which all wish to 
avail themselves. We ascended the river still higher, but found 
nothing to encourage us. We deliberated some time and con¬ 
cluded to reascend the mountain. We returned to the encamp¬ 
ment of the above-mentioned bar, where we found an old man, a 
sea captain, acting as cook. They had no tent, but slept in the 
open air. The cook had a large camp-kettle hanging on a tripod 
under a live oak-tree, cooking pork and beans, and preparing 
dinner for thirty men. It seemed a strange occupation for a 
sea captain; still, it had not yet lost its novelty, and he seemed 
to enjoy it much. I noticed, however, that he would frequently 
hitch up his pantaloons and look 11 aloft.” After resting an hour 
