This was the busiest place in town and situated near the plaza.

This was the largest town I had yet been in.

There seemed to be plenty of women and lots of dogs, but the men were as scarce as they had been in any of the towns--gone to the gold mines to make a stake.

I took in the sights pretty well, and there were a great many new things for me to see, and when pretty well satisfied concluded I would go back to my mule and camp in some place just out of town for the night.
Before I reached my animal whom should I meet but my old traveling companion John Rogers whom I thought to be a hundred miles away by this time.

We shook hands heartily and he told me that Bennett, Moody and Skinner were camped not far off, and he was still with them.