The Newtown bee., 1904-12-23
To California Ia '49. INTERESTING STORY FROM THE DIARY OF GLOVER HAWLEY. Brought Out In a Vivid Way By the Pen of E. l..
 Johnson. MILK $1 A QUART.-EGGS $12 A DOZEN.

Note-A few days since an electri- elan, young man, called at our house to look after the present needs of our telephone, and in the course of our conversation, l remarked to him: You are too young to have the pleas ure that comes to one who can look back three score years or more and contrast the present methods of travel and communication with what they thinking that same thing of myself a short time since, that all these won- derful discoveries in the appliances of electricity l look upon as matter of course because they have been devel- oped within my short life, and in a certain sense I feel myself to have been loser by it.''
 So in regard to ocean travel and postal facilities, it is by comparison only that our young people can realize the rapid strides that have been made in the last half-century. That is one reason why l am so interested in of MT Hawley. A seven months trip by water from New York to San Fran cisco; two and three months for letters to make the passage, and two or three dollars extra to deliver them from the postofflce to the mines. No wonder that the weary watching and waiting for letters made hearts ache. l quote from a letter written by Mrs Hawley to her husband under date of February il, 1850, one year after he left home. in which she says: ''I have had but two letters before this, since you got there. The moment it is known have a letter from you everybody hOcks to hear it. haven't had your last letter now more than two hours and it has been read, I've no doubt, to 100 persons, and every word you write is swallowed with the greatest avidity."
 The letter given this week, written at a time when the gold craze was sweeping men off their feet as it were, when everybody was neglecting every. thing else in their rush for gold, shows how easily things may become unbal- anced, and enormously unhealthy val ues be put on everything that one needs in the way of food, clothing, shelter and all that is necessary for ones comfort and safety, and as you carefully read how the shining dust was exchanged for needed things for life's comfort remember that ''all is not gold that glitters. LIE. L. J.
 Sacramento City, Dec. 28, 1849
 Dear Wife: I hardly know how to begin this letter, not having the pleas ure of writing it in answer to any one Although my efforts have been un- ceasing to get them from San Francis co they have all failed. Several ex- presses make it their business to carry letters to and from San Francisco. 1 have employed two of them but all to no purpose. The steamboat came up with the express on Christmas eve and away l went as usual to the different offices, but no letter for me. I was much disappointed and felt as if l could hardly keep Christmas we'll with to work 10 hours on building near by | for $1O. It is now over six months since you wrote the last letter to me that has come to hand, and you may form an opinion whether or not 1 feel some anxiety about the "loved ones at home." I have no doubt but you write at least once month. l have received but two papers from the Farmer office yet. l have located myself for the winter in this city ir company with Neafie and AlOnEo Sher' man. Neafie and myself bought { store and stock in trade and are doing very snug business, besides making { home for us, which is very desirable | Uldu UOdlu OuU 1Ol V1O d WCCh which is the cheapest that can be go per week, and then $1 a night extr: for lodging on mattress. Neatie ant myself work what time we can car pentering for $l per hour each. AlOn 20 Sherman tends the store. Hi
 health has been bad most of the tim
 since he has been in the country, bu
 is now improving fast. l will give yo' an idea of the business we are doing and at the same time of the prices w get here in California. We either talk
 the dust or silver coin. Cheese is $1 5
 per pound, candles $1.25 per pound
 potatoes 40 cents pound, onions s15
 per hundred pounds. Onions we hay
 sold at retail by the single pound a
 $l.50 but they are now worth that b
 the sack. Sweet potatoes, 60 cents pc pound, ruta bagas 75 cents per pound
 pork, BOG per pound, raisins 75c pc
 pound, soft bread, 50 cents per loa1
 coffee, 50 cents per pound, and so or sold pair of kip boots that Asa sol