The reins, martingale, and whip are composed of solid silver in woven strands.

The headstall is covered with fluted silver, with large engraved silver rosettes at the sides, with decorations of flowers and heads of wheat, with an elaborate nose-piece with silver engraving.

The side-pieces are of silver, massive and ornate, with a silver chain under the horse's jaw.

The bridle, reins, and accessories weigh about twelve pounds, and are worth not less than two hundred and fifty dollars in value of silver coin used in its manufacture." Everybody up and down the coast knows Dixie Thompson.

His talk is full of delightful anecdotes of the early settlers, and he has a droll, dry humor of his own that is refreshing.