Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

They spent days in going over the government land, and in the end
reluctantly decided against taking it up. The redwood canyons and
great cliffs of the Santa Lucia Mountains fascinated Saxon; but
she remembered what Hafler had told her of the summer fogs which
hid the sun sometimes for a week or two at a time, and which
lingered for months. Then, too, there was no access to market.
It was many miles to where the nearest wagon road began, at
Post's, and from there on, past Point Sur to Carmel, it was a
weary and perilous way. Billy, with his teamster judgment,
admitted that for heavy hauling it was anything but a picnic.
There was the quarry of perfect marble on Hafler's quarter
section. He had said that it would be worth a fortune if near a
railroad; but, as it was, he'd make them a present of it if they
wanted it.