From there he soon obtained a passage for Salt Lake City, arriving there on the second day of December, seventeen days after I had reached there, and finding me as before stated.
Some time in the winter we formed an acquaintance of a gentleman named Jesse Morgan, a Gentile, who had left Illinois in the spring of 1849 for California, but for some cause had been delayed and obliged to winter in the city of the Latter Day Saints.

Morgan had a wife, a little child, a wagon and two yoke of oxen, but no food nor money.

Field and I arranged to furnish food for all for the trip from there to Sacramento, and assist in camp duties, drive the team, &c.

We made the trip together and arrived in Sacramento in good condition on the fourth day of July, 1850, and pitched our tent under a large oak tree where the State Capitol now stands.
I spent five months with a wholesale grocery and miners supply firm, Elder and Smith, Fourth and J streets, Sacramento, and three months in the mines as a drummer, or solicitor and collector for the same firm.

I returned to Sacramento and was almost ready to start home when the Scots River excitement broke out.