April 18, 1906 will be one that few people in California will forget. |
Ready cash is quite at a premium. Financial matters are to (sic) complicated by reason of every bank in the city being burned out, that the banks here have closed; and everybody has to get along with what money he has in his pocket. |
Some people are afraid there will be a scarcity of provisions here since the wholesale houses are wrecked. But that is foolishness for we can get provisions in 2 weeks from Portland. There are people who can't think of anyone in distress without imagining that they themselves are to be pitied as sufferers too. |