At the mouth of the creek this pioneer located on 160 acres, which, when he died about 1883, was sold to M.H.
de Young, of the _San Francisco Chronicle_.

After holding it for many years he sold it in turn to I.Hellman, the banker, who now uses it as his summer estate, having built a fine residence upon it.
Near here we lunched at a sheep-herder's camp and heard an interesting story of the relocation of an old mine that had helped create the Squaw Valley excitement forty years before.

Owing to new and improved methods of extracting the precious metal it is now deemed that this may soon develop into a paying property.
Returning to the road we passed Jock Ellis's cabin, in a similar state of ruin to that of McKinney.

Ellis Peak (8945 feet) is named after him.

He was a Squaw Valley stampeder.