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THE WEST SHORE.
to old mountaineer $12.1 00 to pilot them to the Med
ian road For a abort time they camped in the Doer
Ixxlgo valley, tome of the party striking the Bannock
l'l'Ki)i! tb fint m'D0 opened in Montana. Some
of the men now being destitute, II act there purchase d
another horse and picked him with proviaioni and
Uok them acroat the la Lo trail to Oro Fino, hiring
a man to take hia wagon to Walla Walla by the Mul
Ian road, Tho men he bad befriended immediately
went to work at M 00 a day, and Hunt, witbont going
arrived on New Year's morning, 1863, having had i
very stormy passage of seven days, which so cured
him of any desire to " sail the ocean bine," that he
gave up bis Panama trip and went to Sacramento and
paid 1250.00 for a ticket to Denver on the overland
stage. Denver was reached on the twenty-third of
January, and after settling np his business there he
started for Boise with teams, twenty men paying him
$00.00 each to take them through. He took a load of
tea and groceries as far as Halt Lake City, where he
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to Florvow, went to Wall. w.n. . . , .
wd took t to U.. nc. mim, lt Auburn '
Uvjllripfh thMalUu)AuWn a,ll
l lo hi. gain, and then, though the lC,
k Uk afW hu affair, iB dorado, iuWndinc to
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to ,o IW. At lWUand be tTk tU o 1
old them ana laid in a stock of flour, eggs, butter,
t'tc. which he sold in Idaho City at great profit, but
tor bribing $l.oo a pound, eggs $1.50 a dozen, and
nour MOO a hundred. He then engaged extensive-
, X u the freighting business between Umatilla and
the Idaho mines. It was while engaged in this busi
10 J'4- he met Miss Leonora Gaylord, in
ifcise, who had come across the plains to the WUUm-
i , mP Wlth parenU in 1853, when only four
ymt of a6 The Gaylords had gone to Boise in