From East Prussia to the Golden Gate (1906) (14578759429)

Identifier: fromeastprussiat00lec (find matches)
Title: From East Prussia to the Golden Gate
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lecouvreur, Frank, 1829-1901 Lecouvreur, Josephine Rosana Behnke, Julius Camillus, 1859-
Subjects: Voyages to the Pacific coast Ethnic groups Mines and mineral resources Agriculture Business
Publisher: New York, Los Angeles, Cal., Angelina book concern (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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gure my credit atnine hundred and thirty dollars. Pretty good for aclerk, I think. December, 1858. Eeverses in business, by which I barely managed toget the amount due me, caused me to leave Timms, whoafterwards sold out to Goller, his principal creditor. After a short visit to San Francisco I returned to LosAngeles, where Wm. Moore had become the uncrownedhead of the county, surveyors office—who in reality wasa wagon maker by trade. Upon his request I surveyedthe Protestant graveyard, and drew a plan for the newwater supply of the city. I have done a little work forprivate parties, namely, Juan Apablasa, 0. W. Childs,John G. Downey, Mateo Kellers Malaga Ranch, anddrawn plans for the Catholic cemetery as well. Mean-while there had been trouble in the Goller camp, as thelatter found it very up-hill work to run a commissionand forwarding house like that of Timms, especially ashe himself know little about it and was too busy at hiswagon factory to spend time to learn the inside details
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A FOURTEEN-YEAR PERIOD 311 of the business, which, by the way, had Banning as asharp competitor. Timms had paid every cent honestly,and with Goller, persuaded me to take the managementof the San Pedro house at one hundred and twenty dol-lars and board—a position which I held about fourmonths, when I thought it better to look about for anew occupation—greatly to Gollers regret. Annaheim, an attractive German settlement, owned byfifty stockholders, who propose to have set out five hun-dred thousand vines. After three years each holdershall be entitled to twenty acres of land—twelve ofwhich are to be in vineyard with ten thousand vines,while the remaining eight acres are to be planted as theholders may direct. My old friend George Hansen, ofthe Mojave surveying expedition, is the superintendent,who engages me for sixty dollars and board. There Iam at the close of 1858. But how long? December, 1859.My stay at Annaheim was of short duration as it istoo monotonous and disagreeable a j