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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Mushroom City and left beleiving it to be the most extravegant
place in the known world.
Feby 1st. Left San Jose and arrived at Stockton on the 6th-
distance eighty miles- Stockton is situated at the head of Stock-
ton slough, a tributary of the San Joaquinise [San Joaquin] River
and about one hundred and twenty miles from San Francisco, it is
the great emporium of the Southern Mines, and as a place of
business stands third in importance among the towns of Cali-
fornia--
And so endth the first Chapter-
III
APPENDIX
LETTERS BY CORNELIUS COX'S CONTEMPORARIES
Murchison to Richardson54
Camp near Passo del Norte,
June 23, 1849.
Rev. Chauncey Richardson;
My dear Brother, with heartfelt gratitude, I can announce to
you, that we have got through safe to this place without the loss
of a man, horse, mule or wagon, while I have the painful
reflection to believe that there are hundreds now perishing
in the mountains of Texas. A part of Captain Haynie's55 com-
mand and himself passed this some ten days before our arrival.
They give an account of great suffering. They were reduced to
the necessity of eating several of their mules and horses, and many
snakes. Captain Joseph Young, who left one month before us,
save one day, numbering thirty five men, passed this place on
the fourth inst., with six men; viz: William Blair, James Blair,
Wm Love, Turrow, R. W. Fuller, and Thomas Early; the ballance
of the company have not since been heard from, and I fear never
will be. There are several companies that should have been here
long before this time; but they are not heard from. We are in-
debted to Major Neighbors and Dr. Ford for our success; had we
not have met them and procured a guide to pilot us, we would
have been as badly lost as any others: the only difference would
"Telegraph, August 16, 1849, copied from the Texas Weekly Banner.
"The Haynie party probably was the first large party, which left Austin
on March 17.212
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