Ord and I took the land, and we paid Seton for his labor in cash.

By the sale of my share of the land, subsequently, I realized three thousand dollars.

After finishing Hartnell's survey, we crossed over to Dailor's, and did some work for him at five hundred dollars a day for the party.

Having finished our work on the Cosumnes, we proceeded to Sacramento, where Captain Sutter employed us to connect the survey of Sacramento City, made by Lieutenant Warner, and that of Sutterville, three miles below, which was then being surveyed by Lieutenant J.W.Davidson, of the First Dragoons.

At Sutterville, the plateau of the Sacramento approached quite near the river, and it would have made a better site for a town than the low, submerged land where the city now stands; but it seems to be a law of growth that all natural advantages are disregarded wherever once business chooses a location.