Scott was afterward retained by many of the Spaniards to present their claims for their land to the U.S.

Government and was considered a very able man.
Mr.Stockton related that when he left his family here to go to the mines he rented one half a house of Michael Blanco who had a Spanish wife and children, and these and his own were of course constant playmates.

When he returned in the fall he found his children had learned to speak Spanish and nearly forgotten English, so that he had to coax them a great deal to get them to talk to him at all, and he could not understand a word they said.
I now tried to learn the language myself.

I had money to loan, and the borrowers were Spanish who gave good security and paid from 5 to 25 per cent interest per month, on short time.

Mrs.Stockton assisted me very much as an interpreter.
I bought young steers for $8.