Mexico California And Arizona Being a New And Revised Edition of Old Mexico An
Mexico California And Arizona Being a New And Revised Edition of Old Mexico An
William Henry Bishop
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Starting from humble origin, he rose to be a great capitalist and the promoter of brilliant schemes of improvement, both public and private. He conducted to success a hundred projects which in other hands would have been folly, and arrived thus at such an unbounded confidence in his star that he thought he could not fail. He was entangled at last, however, in schemes beyond his control. Strong and athletic, and in the prime of life, he went down to "Harry Meigs's" wharf, in San Francisco almost... the very point 356 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES. from which his great prototype sailed away to Peru and swam out half a mile into the bay. It was for refresh- ment in his troubles, as some say, but, as the general opinion is, with the purpose of suicide. At any rate he was never seen alive again. The house that was his is notched into the hill-side, in a rolling country, much pleasanter than the plain at Men- lo Park. A pretty gorge behind it is dammed to furnish a water-supply. There are gas-works, a bowling-alley, and an elaborate Turkish bath among the out-buildings, and a grange-like barn of solid stone, ivy-grown, which cost $80, 000.
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