All the town lay along Montgomery Street, from Sacramento to Jackson, and about the plaza.

Gambling was the chief occupation of the people.

While they were waiting for the cessation of the rainy season, and for the beginning of spring, all sorts of houses were being put up, but of the most flimsy kind, and all were stores, restaurants, or gambling -saloons.

Any room twenty by sixty feet would rent for a thousand dollars a month.

I had, as my pay, seventy dollars a month, and no one would even try to hire a servant under three hundred dollars.
Had it not been for the fifteen hundred dollars I had made in the store at Coloma, I could not have lived through the winter.