transportation was paid for. He immediately re-shipped for the journey, taking the boat for Aspinwal and crossed the Isthmas of Panama by mule, thence to San Francisco, arriving there June 25th, 1867. He worked at his trade in Comptonville, Yuba County, California, where he remained for sixteen months. He then went to San Francisco where he went to school to learn English. Leaving San Francisco on horseback in January, 1869, he went to White Pines, Nevada, staying there for seven months, during which time he did some prospecting and mining near Hamilton and Treasurer Hill. On August 14th, 1869, with two other men, he left White Pines, Nevada, on horseback for Wickenburg, Arizona. They crossed the Colorado River at Hardyville near old Fort Mohave. It was there that Geo H.N. Luhrs was almost drowned. They did not see any Indians on their journey, but one night the horses became restless so they packed up and moved on. They arrived in Wickenburg September 30th, 1869, which in those days was a booming gold mining center. Geo H.N. Luhrs wanted to return, but the other two men did not, so he went to work for the Vulture Mine a short distance away. Later, he became foreman of the wagon makers. While at the Vulture Mine, he remembers, the young son of the superintendent was reported missing. When found, the boy had forty arrows in his body. The side of the mountain had been beaten flat of vegetation where the Indians had attacked the boy. He also recalls two Mexican women using the drinking water tank for a bath tub. The Apache Indians were very hostile, stealing cattle

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