and as I had often heard him talk of her, and of sending her money, I bought a $100 check and sent it in the same letter which bore the melancholy news.

King had a claim at Chip's Flat which he believed would be very rich in time, so I kept his interest up in it till it amounted to $500 and then abandoned the claim and pocketed the loss.
We made a pine box, and putting his body in it, laid it away with respect.

I had often heard him say that if he suffered an accident, he wished to be killed outright and not be left a cripple, and his wish came true.
After this accident the blacksmith working for the Paradise Co., was making some repairs about the surface of the air shaft, and among his tools was a bar of steel an inch square, and 8 or 10 feet long, which was thrown across the shaft, and while working at the whim wheel he slipped and struck this bar which fell to the bottom of the shaft, 100 feet deep and the blacksmith followed.

When the other workmen went down to his assistance they found that the bar of steel had stuck upright in the bottom of the shaft, and when the man came down it pierced his body from hip to neck, killing him instantly.

He was a young man, and I have forgotten his name.
Those who came to California these later years will not many of them see the old apparatus and appliances which were used in saving the gold in those primitive days.