We reached Sacramento City September 7…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

We reached Sacramento City September 7. There was not a house in town, all tents and half the number devoted to gambling. Table board, without extras was $21 a week; ordinary labor, $10 a day; miners $16; carpenters, $20 a day. A preacher I had known on the plains had rebuked me for swearing at a vicious mule, that rebuke terminated our friendship but the first gambling tent I passed I met my preacher friend bucking the tiger — he changed color as suddenly as if he had been miscegenated.”