Excerpt from Fifty Years on Tracks Twenty-year-old Charles Holt left his New Hamp shire home in 1863 - bound via the Isthmus of Panama for San Francisco. There, he took on a variety of odd jobs - beginning in a local lumber yard In 1869, he established C. H. Holt Company, Importers of hardwood lumber. Much of his wood was sawed at his father's New Hampshire mill - as well as the famous wagon shops of nearby Concord. Axles from Concord were held in high esteem among the trade; seasoned Stagecoach drivers claimed an ability to distinguish their characteristic sing as they rolled over mountain roads miles from town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.