Co-founder of the Californian magazine and the SF correspondent for the Sacramento Daily Union helped land Sam a job with his paper as a correspondent from the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii). Sam stayed a month and wrote 30 letters while also working on his lecture.
timeline
Orion resigns as chairman of the Ways and Means committee
states in a public letter that he had “failed to be useful to the State as in my opinion I should have been.
Orion learns that there is Oil on the Tennessee land
He writes to Sam that the land has oil on it and they should consider selling it to industry Sam doesn’t read the letter until he’s on the boat