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Placerville, Boise River, May 2, 1863

One of the crowd that followed us in said to our guide "Can you tell us anything about Wells Fargo and Co? We understood that they were going to establish an agency here." "Yes" says the guide "they are, and that man in spectacles is the agent." The next instant I heard a shout taken up and repeated through the whole town "Wells Fargo have come." In less than three minutes I was surrounded by an excited crowd of two or three hundred men, who hardly allowed me time...

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to get my saddle off from my mule before they almost dragged me into a large unfinished building on the Plaza, as they called the square. The carpenters were at work, but were stopped at once, the shavings were cleaned out, a couple of boards put on tressels [sic] were fixed up for a counter, one man ran for a whiskey keg to make me a stool and another brought in a pair of scales and a yeast powder box to put gold dust in... (continued)

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