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MEN OF DIFFERENT KINDS
mous dam and connected it with the placers twenty-five
miles away by an iron pipe, ten to fifteen inches in diame-
ter and with a pressure test of eight hundred pounds to
the square inch. This was considered quite an engineer-
ing feat in those days.
During this construction there was an epidemic of
pneumonia among the men, and after losing several cases
at the company hospital situated at the dam I decided
that the altitude had something to do with it. From that
time I had all patients brought down to the valley, a drop
of about five thousand feet. After this change I did not
lose a case.
The project was apparently going to succeed and the
presidency of the company was tendered to General
U. S. Grant, who visited the property to investigate. He
and his party were taken from Lamy Junction in Govern-
ment ambulances to the placers and thence to the dam
and reservoir. After completing his examination, the
General decided to take the train at Bernalillo, where
they arrived about three hours before the departure of
the daily train for the north. Hotel accommodations at
Bernalillo were meager and, as my office adjacent to the
drug store was comfortable, the party became my guests
until train time.
This was the second time I had met the great soldier.
Soon after the close of the Civil War, General Grant with
his wife and two of their children, Frederick and Nellie,
visited St. Paul. My uncle, Dr. J. H. Murphy, had
served as surgeon with General Grant at Vicksburg.
When he called to pay his respects to his former com-
mander, I went with him and was presented to the Gen-
eral and family. I had a short but pleasant visit with
Fred, who was four years my senior. This must have been
in 1865 or '66, and fate threw us together again in 1898 in
the Spanish-American War, where he was Major-GeneralI47
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Hoyt, Henry Franklin. A Frontier Doctor, book, 1929; Boston, Massachusetts. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143532/m1/187/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.