Show IN THE DAYS interesting HISTORY STORY FROM AN ARGONAUTS LOG BOOK capt chatard of the united states navy havy kept in an uncolored record of conditions cost of unas living it Is 13 refreshing to read accounts accounts of stirring events or times especially ally when they have hae been much written about by persons who arote with the special object of 0 attracting renders when bars bare facts are excl exal ling it a plain narration of 0 them la Is a food for or readers which those there who write to bo be read seldom furnish so it Is that private writings become of t tho he greatest value to the historian who isho seeks to truly reflect the past the historian writing something that tho the sensational lias has been squeezed out of 0 by frequent nt reprints and seeking for the plain truth sets great store by diaries letters and official documents which lire am frequently wanting in literary stile but are replete facts acts and impression that ore are not colored I 1 next to those of n national warfare the days of 0 49 in california were probably a bly the tha most stirring of 0 this century in the united states slates they were the iha days whon when california with its fabulous fabulo ui ug wealth was in point of at travel mu much c h farther away from st bouls than tile the klondike is 19 now california us was the nations lottery thither people of all classes wont went seeking an el dorado and their common purpose mingled them and made tho the society ot of tho the mining camps 11 IL UHS nag a civilization of oc fabulous wealth and extraordinary Y extras a asana zanca men were either wealthy beyond all expectations or they were desperate starving in the mountains al hem they hunted cold bold in vain some front from starvation and their perished from rom starvation and their giaves cloves became sold gold mines yielding untold in wealth ln in attempting to dt describe scribe the iho conditions in ill men inen have written columns col and bool books some home wrote te aluth ully fully others untruthfully from ram the roas mass of truth and tea loadable dable fiction imposed upon the them in as truth I 1 it t has haa been hard to pick out the facto and when one reads anything about the tha days of 49 ho he ison deis it it was true to such persons the ellary diary at 0 it a man I 1 who did not write for print 19 a f feast cast capt frederick fr darick di rick chatard who iho died october a 3 1897 at the Mullan phy hos has latal wa in fit san sail francisco in the fall all of 0 1819 and kept such puch a record capt chatard was the oldest surviving oin of the united states navy of the ante b e ham days lie entered the navy in 1821 when he m was as but 37 17 years old in he was lieutenant commander of tile the hington ic xing ton and was on the western coast lit in october of that year ile he saw raw the historic era of san fran aneo being it a united states oat officer c er ho he saw it as an observer and a 1 I looker on in vienna capt chatard continuously tn in ill the e navy department till the breaking a out t of the war when ho he resigned his position there and joined the cc confederate federate navy lie ho participated p in t the lie battle of drutys bluff on the james river evansport Eyan Evan sport on tile the ioa tomac acnula acqua creek and other important c engagements n gaLe ments at the clow cloe or of the war he came to st louis and for or several years he be was connected with the old lite life association of 0 america americ a a well anell knoma ansur insurance lee company of ill that t ireda day 11 ho ret retired fro from in active busin business cas a rome borne eighteen or twenty years ago and during the last two years was in tile the Mullan phy hospital capt chatard was an oba observant ervant man aitio not easily carried an away ay by bright prospects and therefore his impressions of oc san francisco francis and the th gold fields were such as a deife aly disinterested trian would receive lie ile noted some a of f his big impressions in the ill lor v book of I 1 the he leti englon lieto it together with some nome instances that had bee been n related to him by rell aue able men tho the life of tho the camps this log book was not known to bo be in existence until it was found among hla his effects atter after his death he seems to have been chiefly impressed by the outrageous prices charged char fired for the necessaries of life some of the matler of tact fact statements in the record will strike the reader of to today jay as aa odd tor for instance a salute to john Q adams deceased de ceasel ind and the reports about the cormons mormons Alor mons having settled at salt lake the part of 0 the record I 1 in 1 alie loff ing book here pilli ted begins wit with 1 1 II 11 hie JIL e rei reference refe renco erenea to rome refugees from mexican troubles lit in jower california the following entries arf or in tile ing book br wok in peculiar close scholarly jug nr AIon AlOn terey october 7 aw all my p ATC landed col hrason pro plo vid ld them with house bouse rent for to months and also two months rations rat twelve of my crew have deserted descried they could not resist the temptation of gold cold hunting they had almi 1130 duo due thorn ell em but what was wan every day are sees seen persons coming in from the mines 1 with I fit gold dust in leather bags ross or bottles two frenchmen arrived all w ho 0 o had collected tl lOttO in seven days one man at tile roun a solid piece of gold eli thing 25 pounds another a close to it wel ching ing 7 4 pounds ii t no diers to whom short leaves of absence had been granted returned rc turned with various 1 I 0 32 00 0 or I 1 Is it a wonder that saflora itoko cant resist the th temptation ono one hundred or moro maro of tile regular Rold Jerm havo hav from the tort fort at monterey and volunteers volunteer number front roni the different parts af upper call fornia october 10 1549 the ohl ohio C cama in and thirty titi daya da a fron a san sail jo low october 11 20 2349 the ohio f ill 0 irah a wenta one olle mins guas I 1 in I 1 ll 11 honor of f john 0 adanga ada res ex preside ilc ceased and the th e colors of the wore half 1 ir maw i wark ek th alil has ali ll 11 twenty men ba 1 1111 1 lion in tran o chabr 26 irla ban francisco co to Is said to be in a most digor disorderly state the alcalde A protestant minister mr air leavenworth told too me that it was not of safe to walk through the streeta at night with money rno murders are committed and RO go unpunished the mill gang iss as they me file culled called a lawless set act of men pro go publicly ab about a I 1 the streets armed an advert advertisement advertisers isern t 11 1 aren re stuck up about the town offering ewh quit for or the head or pei person son ot or pete raymonl a 26 murd muril cier vior san francisco ca cal ii november 7 isil dined with sir mr liotard howard ot of the firm of 0 howard lle idius lluc the town latin hatt ha beon ben very much improved all li iq business busine pg and bustle cloila abc crowded m I 1 lit strangers wild west countrymen ummi looking lealous somo rome ationo g an and athletic others othera sickly and from disease contracted at the mines gold la Is seen everywhere in fil tubs and chamber mugs enormous prices are a aked ked lit at tho the stores stares pair of blankets 75 a scrape and do 60 foith faith I 1 attended an auction 0 of a sale of cargo belonging to mr cross of Valm ralso fifty three barrels of pork bold oll at ida 63 a harrel barrel common blankets wurth worth lit t in the united states stata ald 13 each common it kocica til 11 per dozen light hunched bundled barrels ot of flower sold hold for or 21 24 per barrel brandy in casks M 8 a gallon callon oil and 24 a dozen in bottles battles hams battle 05 95 cents a pound and so forth tile the people bid with the wildcat enthusiasm in a side room wine champagne find and lum opened almost ad tile the salesman mr smith anti and c follow A wap nag besides knew how to ln nil wild tild buyers for the sales 1 in I tn two days lie received in corn com those goods bought at such auch cx prices are immediately sent to the mint mants it in launches launch eq alicd sometime for fir for ten lays days whore where a barrel ol of lour flour sells hells for 10 a babrel of pork for SOO it pound A man bt andIng by me said lie sold a common horse blanket tor for another that lie he sold hams banis for alco 1 10 a pound poland and so go fortl forth all this seems very incredible but it 1 li 14 4 most undoubtedly true rold gold being in such profusion that its value ls Is rint not regarded reg ardeil a here a person efly reels I 1 the it a want an fn for r any article ot of absolute necessity th the e holders holder 11 do not hesitate to take lake any advantage of their customers par particularly t ica if 11 they happen to be indians A ery cry respectable gentleman said he saw adith his otan tin eyes 20 25 pounds ot of gold weighed out for 23 S pounds of sugar to an indian the common way for an ail indian to buy a dollar in silver Is to pile it up willi nith gold cold dust the yankee dealers take all kind handi ot of advantage of them by false weights eights 1 I etc an ounce lit be made to IN to a two ounces four etc A disbanded volunteer who shipped on board the lexington told me that one day being very hungry nt at the mines lie in hid had paid tor for one am meal mr W V told enid me that he himself made an indian pay sa 3 for a small email mesa meas at 0 food standing in a saucepan at which he was tins enviously looking mr W lit in three lays days found himself 1300 find and with an outlay ot of cwm he cleared sir mr smith of the firm ot of ward smith went to the gold cold grounds among the indians and lie he says ho he dealt fairly and tn ln tny two or three weeks cleared li by the lie sale of ills his goods dr parker piu ker late lie surgeon of tile alio volunteers volunteer turned merchant in san sail francisco and la in four weeks sald said he be took in lit in gold dust duet to lit in sliver silver A A californian sometimes comets comei into a store with ills his leather bag baff full or of gold dust and alter after taking an a article r bicle not speaking en he be tells I 1 the h c merchant to take lako re as much as he bit thinks right imagine a yankee helping him self sel dr perry another surgeon in tile the wim anny told ms file that on ono one night in one visit lie made mada A doctor at the mines had the impudence it vaa mas so regarded by others to charge for 0 an 11 emetic for which most moat unjustly am 09 he thought being mobbed he h c was d biven from the mines lie he said li he e thought he had a right to charge for his hl information th the tea roan A died however A box of se I 1 till ila sold gold for alc 16 at the hotels a manth was charged for a single room with board mr and mrs stephens stephen at a miserable boardinghouse paid 10 a week washing 6 to 8 per dozen twelve cents for ono one onion beef to IH the only cheap article november II 11 sent order to the southampton aleut I aleut leut commander handy at san S soleto olito to come over to san november 13 she came to an anchor and we ue transported really neaily at all I 1 our stores to her emigrants ric aie constantly arriving from that sandwich balandi and Or exola th tha mormons cormons Mor mons it Is said hare collected borne bome millions in gold and are establishing themselves at the salt lake november 21 got on board in gold cold dust we salt sail bosan to san sahto sarto to water ship 1 st qt louis globe glob democrat |