CHAPTER XXV

. The Mormons in Nevada—How to Persuade a Loan from

Them—Early History of the Territory—Silver Mines Discovered—The New Territorial Government—A Foreign One and a Poor One—Its Funny Struggles for Existence—No Credit, no Cash—Old Abe Currey Sustains it and its Officers—Instructions and Vouchers—An Indian’s Endorsement—Toll-Gates

## CHAPTER XXVI . The Silver Fever—State of the Market—Silver Bricks—Tales

Told—Off for the Humboldt Mines

## CHAPTER XXVII . Our manner of going—Incidents of the Trip—A Warm but Too

Familiar a Bedfellow—Mr. Ballou Objects—Sunshine amid Clouds—Safely Arrived

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