The Experiences of a Forty Niner During Thirty Four Years Residence in Californ
The Experiences of a Forty Niner During Thirty Four Years Residence in Californ
Charles D Ferguson
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He said it was no distance to walk, besides, we had a horse to ride. Of course I promised him I would "run down. " There were nine of the party Costler, Taft, Babbet, Hull, Beauclerc, Loveland, Campbell, Gilmour and myself- and the horse, cart and baggage. The journey was long and tedious, over what was then called the old Sidney road, which we struck at Seymour, and followed it through Long wood and other towns, when, turning south, past Reed's station, we arrived at Spring creek. The Sidney r...oad had been built for years, but we were the first party of diggers that had ever traveled it up to that time. I was told years afterwards that the first party of diggers that passed over that road south to Ovens which was our party were the boys to spend their money freely. They never had seen any diggers that had any money to ^248 SPRING CREEK TO BENDIGO. \spend, and that accounted for things being so cheap in 'comparison to what we had been accustomed to pay. They thought they were getting a big price when we thought we were getting things very cheap.
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