You came to Sacramento on the river boat. Then if you were
rich, you bought a horse or a mule and rode for the rest of your
journey. If you were poor, or thrifty perhaps, you walked, or tried to
get a ride on one of the ox-freight teams which plied their way across
Haggin Grant to Auburn and Dutch Flat, or to Folsom and Coloma.
Later a railway was built as far as Auburn station, then situated at a
point three miles east of Loomis which was at that time called Pino.
Nothing remains of Auburn station. But the road bed of the old railway
is still to be found in certain wooded tracts which have not given way
to the fruit ranches; and the highway from Fair Oaks into Folsom follows
the old cuts and grades for several miles.
In the days preceding and immediately following the discovery of gold in
California, building was very difficult. Every stick of lumber in my
grandfather's house came by ship "around the Horn," and the fruit trees
grape vines, flowers, even bees, for his lovely garden: were all sent
from Europe.
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