Newspaper Notes - 1850s (NN-18.5)(1850s) (336 pages)

. . 4ias Close Cll ; After my arrival at this place 1, ‘was taken down ‘with the fever as also was poor little Henry, I ‘th Gammon thought for a long ‘time I would’ lose the dear child but Providence, etene a hed at ai): and. calico pillow . : cases on our oillows, favored both of us and so got over Our fare is very plain, consis iit. I was physician, apothecary and of meat and poread and bre ting nurse Inyself, and patient at the ad and meat with some dried frui same time. I was patient sure t, either } ari ed app les + peaches and now. enough for I was terribly frightnow and ther as a gre ened. I thought there was no other at delicacy. . a little ranc id butter that has been home for me but a narrow bed on ‘the side of this rocky hill by the } Put up in the land of Goshen and sent round a six months cruise It is really amazing that to this ‘margin of the fair Yuba’s waters— . by Cape Horn for which we at times day, time and again letters and but as “there are some on earth claries come to light, penn liave given the moderate sum of ed in too good to stay and others too bad . more or less legibile scrip $2 per pound but now it has fallen t and to take away” I suppose I was telling first-hand impressi ito $1.50. Everything in the way of ons and amongst the latter and still left to . provisions is remarkably high—— experiences of immigrants. in the . see more of the sorrows and joys sold camps of California. fiour during the winter was $l On one of ‘of this poor life. a Pound; potatoes the same and also his many annual visits to We had a very disagreeable winthe Norpork; thern Mines, H. M, Pierce fresh beef now is 35 cents a of Oak. ter. The snow set in early in Nov. pound; sugar 75 and coffee 50; Jand brought such a trea sure to . and continued with but little interdried fruit show the Trail scribe, a also is a dollar a pound slightly ‘ruption until the latter part of and molasses $4 to $5 per gallon. faded, crease-worn letter writ ten March and here we, poor souls livEvery thing cn May 19, 1851 from a Sout is remarkably high. h Yuing almost out of doors. SomeMr. Berry bought a short time ba river camp and preserve d in limes of a morning I would come . since the family for all thes three pairs of pantaloons for e many out to find the tent blown down: the children and he gave $9 for years. The penmanship is unus utand the shed under which I cooked them, such as in the States I could ally good and distinct and the litblown over and my utensils laying . buy the material and have them erary skill of the writer rema rkin all directions, fire out and it able. pouring down as tho the clouds. made for about $2.50. We have during the winter eaten as much The writer, signing her lette had busted some times. I would r as $5 worth of potatoes at dinner “Your Affectionate Sister Cc. M. scold and fret, other times I would . Berry” tells a vivid story about endure it in mute agony and again and then none of us had more than a decent taste. I have not the hardships her adventurous famamid all the roar of the elements seen an egg or a drop of milk ily had experienced during thei feel a consolation in thinking that r since I have been in the country. overland crossing from Indepeni had all my family around me and Remain for Summer dence. But in spite of all the tracomfortless as it was they v e We will remain at the mines durvails, the company she travelle sharing it with me — bette? tat d ing the summer. Mr. B. is one of a with “‘came through without susby far than luxury with one memtaining any loss of property, few ber of it missing. Thus passed the ‘company that is going to underhaving to unload or cattle dying.” Greary winter. All I could make ‘take to drain the river at this The letter reads in part: out to accomplish during the day jpoint and get the gold from the was to cook the little we eat and ‘bed of the river. Then in the fall Yuba River, California ivy to keep myself warm. I have . will locate in some one or other May 19th (1851) understood, however, that such a . of the cities on the coast and live “Dear Sister: : winter has not been known in the . 'again, I hope, like white folks, I This is the first time I have made . look very much like an Indian, ‘ . an attempt to write since I came. country before. Our mode of living made us feel . squaw, a very homely one at that. in — during the winter the roads There is one thing:I must say were so bad that it was impossible if more than we would have done. that the writer from this country s to get to and from the city and we had we been half way fixed. In-. have told the truth about and that have no post office yet established deed, such a way of living could. is respec ting flowers, It is emphaat the mines so are compelled to ’ not be endured at all in the States. . ftically the “land of flowers’ — ? Nearly all the miners lay’ on the send our letters by persons who the whole surface of the earth is a make a business of carrying letground with nothing more under gay parter ‘‘ever hill, every re, y ters to and from at a dollar a let‘them than a buffalo skin or blanvale and rill rpeake in the beautiter, which in some cases is more ket. Some way up on the mountains ful langu : flower age s.” profitable to the individual than wrap themselves up in a blanket on mining would be. I suppose you a heap of srow and wake in the are anxious to know how I am Morning wit. two or three feet Pleased with California, Well, I covering them. No Snow There must even now hesitate ere I write We had no snow where we live. and at that scarcely know what to The weather is now intensely itn) Letter of 1850 Tells of Trials aces On Yuba River say. The fact is, I have had but little opportunity of forming an opwarm. I never suffered so much inion of it — we came to this © from heat in my life as ™ have point of the mines on our arrival in done for the last weeks; these. the country 10th of October and tents are awful ovens in warm from this point I have never de. weather, Oh me, how hard it comes to me to have to do the washing viated either East, West, North or and cooking and everything myself. South for the distance of half a mile and have not seen to speak iI often wish for some one even with but one female in that time "half as good as Merry Cormody to and she happens to be located next give me a helping hand. Oh, you [prio lounge on your divans and . tent to me, sofas and sleep on your fine luxur-. ious (beds and partake of your rich . viands at every meal, know nothing . of the life of a California emigrant. Here are we sitting on a pine’ block, a trunk or keg; sleeping on beds with either a quilt or blanket as suUstitute for sheets, (I can tell”.

. . 4ias Close Cll ; After my arrival at this place 1, ‘was taken down ‘with the fever as also was poor little Henry, I ‘th Gammon thought for a long ‘time I would’ lose the dear child but Providence, etene a hed at ai): and. calico pillow . : cases on our oillows, favored both of us and so got over Our fare is very plain, consis iit. I was physician, apothecary and of meat and poread and bre ting nurse Inyself, and patient at the ad and meat with some dried frui same time. I was patient sure t, either } ari ed app les + peaches and now. enough for I was terribly frightnow and ther as a gre ened. I thought there was no other at delicacy. . a little ranc id butter that has been home for me but a narrow bed on ‘the side of this rocky hill by the } Put up in the land of Goshen and sent round a six months cruise It is really amazing that to this ‘margin of the fair Yuba’s waters— . by Cape Horn for which we at times day, time and again letters and but as “there are some on earth claries come to light, penn liave given the moderate sum of ed in too good to stay and others too bad . more or less legibile scrip $2 per pound but now it has fallen t and to take away” I suppose I was telling first-hand impressi ito $1.50. Everything in the way of ons and amongst the latter and still left to . provisions is remarkably high—— experiences of immigrants. in the . see more of the sorrows and joys sold camps of California. fiour during the winter was $l On one of ‘of this poor life. a Pound; potatoes the same and also his many annual visits to We had a very disagreeable winthe Norpork; thern Mines, H. M, Pierce fresh beef now is 35 cents a of Oak. ter. The snow set in early in Nov. pound; sugar 75 and coffee 50; Jand brought such a trea sure to . and continued with but little interdried fruit show the Trail scribe, a also is a dollar a pound slightly ‘ruption until the latter part of and molasses $4 to $5 per gallon. faded, crease-worn letter writ ten March and here we, poor souls livEvery thing cn May 19, 1851 from a Sout is remarkably high. h Yuing almost out of doors. SomeMr. Berry bought a short time ba river camp and preserve d in limes of a morning I would come . since the family for all thes three pairs of pantaloons for e many out to find the tent blown down: the children and he gave $9 for years. The penmanship is unus utand the shed under which I cooked them, such as in the States I could ally good and distinct and the litblown over and my utensils laying . buy the material and have them erary skill of the writer rema rkin all directions, fire out and it able. pouring down as tho the clouds. made for about $2.50. We have during the winter eaten as much The writer, signing her lette had busted some times. I would

r as $5 worth of potatoes at dinner “Your Affectionate Sister Cc. M. scold and fret, other times I would . Berry” tells a vivid story about endure it in mute agony and again and then none of us had more than a decent taste. I have not the hardships her adventurous famamid all the roar of the elements seen an egg or a drop of milk ily had experienced during thei feel a consolation in thinking that r since I have been in the country. overland crossing from Indepeni had all my family around me and Remain for Summer dence. But in spite of all the tracomfortless as it was they v e We will remain at the mines durvails, the company she travelle sharing it with me — bette? tat d ing the summer. Mr. B. is one of a with “‘came through without susby far than luxury with one memtaining any loss of property, few ber of it missing. Thus passed the ‘company that is going to underhaving to unload or cattle dying.” Greary winter. All I could make ‘take to drain the river at this The letter reads in part: out to accomplish during the day jpoint and get the gold from the was to cook the little we eat and ‘bed of the river. Then in the fall Yuba River, California ivy to keep myself warm. I have . will locate in some one or other May 19th (1851) understood, however, that such a . of the cities on the coast and live “Dear Sister: : winter has not been known in the . 'again, I hope, like white folks, I This is the first time I have made . look very much like an Indian, ‘ . an attempt to write since I came. country before. Our mode of living made us feel . squaw, a very homely one at that. in — during the winter the roads There is one thing:I must say were so bad that it was impossible if more than we would have done. that the writer from this country s to get to and from the city and we had we been half way fixed. In-. have told the truth about and that have no post office yet established deed, such a way of living could. is respec ting flowers, It is emphaat the mines so are compelled to ’ not be endured at all in the States. . ftically the “land of flowers’ — ? Nearly all the miners lay’ on the send our letters by persons who the whole surface of the earth is a make a business of carrying letground with nothing more under gay parter ‘‘ever hill, every re, y ters to and from at a dollar a let‘them than a buffalo skin or blanvale and rill rpeake in the beautiter, which in some cases is more ket. Some way up on the mountains ful langu : flower age s.” profitable to the individual than wrap themselves up in a blanket on mining would be. I suppose you a heap of srow and wake in the are anxious to know how I am Morning wit. two or three feet Pleased with California, Well, I covering them. No Snow There must even now hesitate ere I write We had no snow where we live. and at that scarcely know what to The weather is now intensely itn) Letter of 1850 Tells of Trials aces On Yuba River say. The fact is, I have had but little opportunity of forming an opwarm. I never suffered so much inion of it — we came to this © from heat in my life as ™ have point of the mines on our arrival in done for the last weeks; these. the country 10th of October and tents are awful ovens in warm from this point I have never de. weather, Oh me, how hard it comes to me to have to do the washing viated either East, West, North or and cooking and everything myself. South for the distance of half a mile and have not seen to speak iI often wish for some one even with but one female in that time "half as good as Merry Cormody to and she happens to be located next give me a helping hand. Oh, you [prio lounge on your divans and . tent to me, sofas and sleep on your fine luxur-. ious (beds and partake of your rich . viands at every meal, know nothing . of the life of a California emigrant. Here are we sitting on a pine’ block, a trunk or keg; sleeping on beds with either a quilt or blanket as suUstitute for sheets, (I can tell”.