Clayton had errands to do preparatory to leaving and I went forth to see the town.

What a spectacle of undulating board sidewalks built over swales of sand, running from hillock to hillock! What shacks used for stores, trading offices, marts for real estate! Truly it was a place as if built in a night, relieved but little by buildings of a more substantial sort....

Drinking saloons were everywhere.

I heard music and entered one of these resorts.

There was a barroom in front and a dancing room in the rear.