hanged. I
could find none of the old landmarks I had formerly seen. They
had disappeared, but in their place were great improvements and
signs of progress and prosperity. I was asked the occasion of my
visit. I answered truly that I proposed to remain in the southern
part of the state for a week or more, for rest and recreation.
Here, again, I had inquiries about the silver question. I was
averse to giving any expression of opinion, but the topic was
irrepressible, and I finally said to the representative of one of
the leading papers: "I am in favor of a silver dollar, equal, in
market value, to the gold dollar--actually equal. In other words,
let the silver dollar have enough grains of silver in it to make
it intrinsically worth, in the market, the gold dollar. As it is,
the government buys the silver at a certain valuation and then
coins it at another valuation, to make a profit on the difference.
This is not protecting the silver producer at all. It really is
an injury to him and his industry."

Our stay in Los Angeles was a very pleasant one. We drove to many
interesting towns and settlements within fifteen or twenty miles
of the city. I do not remember, in my many travels, any part of
the earth's surface that is more attractive in the spring of the
year, the season when I was there, than the region about Los Angeles.
I met there many friends of General Sherman, who inquired for him,
and I informed them he was living very pleasantly in St. Louis,
that I had spent the last Sunday with him, that he traveled a great
deal, and attended reunions with old army comrades, which he enjoyed
very much, that he was fond of the Pacific coast and liked to go
there, and that I almost persuaded him to come with me on this
trip, had not other engagements existed which he could not annul.

We met several Ohio people while here, among them two or three
gentlemen whom we had known as boys in Mansfield. We drove to
Wolfskill's orange grove, and to many handsome places in, and
around, Los Angeles, to Sierra Madre Villa, to Baldwin's place, to
Rose's wine establishment, and to Passadena, where we found Senator
Cameron and his wife pleasantly situated, and where they spent the
summer.

From Los Angeles we departed by stage and passed through the Los
Angeles valley, the San Fernando valley, and after crossing the
coast range saw the sea. For the first time we were at the Pacific
coast proper. On the way we met a settlemen