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Show Seth were already her much in Benjamin Tanner California, although this nearer to move 301 would not have brought them." With the founding of the settlement of San Bernardino in Sep tember of 1851, Albert arrived from the gold fields in the north. He had probably had enough mining and wanted to assist' with the building of the new city. He may also have been homesick for his family. Myron and Seth arrived a year later, and the four brothers Myron, Seth, Freeman, and Joseph pooled their funds and purchased a farm which they stocked with horses and cattle. They also set up a store where they did "trading." Freeman tells us that - - their home was built in the best Tanner tradition from the center of town." - some distance Information is not sufficient to comment on the results of the farming operation of the Tanner brothers in San Bernardino. A guess is that it was successful, but not overwhelmingly so. It usually takes a number of years to bring new farmland into profitable pro duction. But the farms in San Bernardino gave promise of much earlier and greater profits than those in arid Utah. anxious for quicker profits or whether he is not known, but "in 1856 he withdrew from the farming and began mining coal in San Diego.'?" Seth's mining partnership activities raise questions that are hard to answer. There is no coal Whether Seth was did not like in San Diego and yet family tradition is strong that he mined coal there in the late 1850's. He later had mining claims in the Colorado River Gorge not far from where the Little Colorado enters, with no success, and he shared with others in the excitement created by the a gold mine that he was Just what caused Seth to pursue the the end of the rainbow, no one seems to know. rumors that John D. Lee knew of secret from everyone. In with a ponies 1855 Seth accompanied band of horses to sell. and the Tanner his brother There was a boys repeated this Myron to ready market operation a keeping gold at Salt Lake for saddle number of Another brother, Freeman, in a letter to the old friend, A. Smith, indicates the two "bachelors" had other motives as George well. Myron whose age then was twenty-nine and Seth two years younger were looking for wives. Myron found his girl, whom he married a year later, but it is not known if Seth met any likely times." prospects. sister, Louisa Maria Lyman, writing from San Bernardino January of 1856, makes mention of Seth working at some Mexican Seth's in |
