He explains the trip along the way, and the scenery when he passed by the mission in San Jose and went through Livermore and saw the California poppies. I've been in that area myself and now it's a modern freeway. Back then, it was probably a dirt road. |
I find the mining incidents and the details about the things going on in the mine to be pretty interesting. He was very good at explaining nature. The diaries were never written for the purpose of publishing, but 100 years later they have some historical value. |
There were people getting killed in there left and right, and he would explain how they got killed. A cable broke on a hoist and the whole thing fell clear to the bottom, things like that. A lot of miners were also killed by falling rocks. |