The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 15, 1920, Page 7, Image 7
TO GOLDEN WEST]
Adventurous Spirits of the World
Turned in '49.
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Lives and Souls Counted for Little hi
the Frantic Rush for the Yellow
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en Route.
On Dec. 8, 1S48, the first deposit of j
California gold was made in the j
United States mint by David Carter.
What a date! Gold had been discovered
in California, and the earth
trembled under the march .westward.
Around the days of '49 In the
> Golden state on the blue Pacific, says
the Kansas City Journal, an American
playwright constructed a drama of
felling power, "The Girl of the Golden
West." It is a picture of the rough
and terrible days of that frantic epoch,
" where men lost their souls and their
lives in the pursuit of the yellow
metal. California was admitted as a
state into the Union in 1850. In '49,
40,000 immigrants arrived in California
overland and by way of the isthmus of
Panama.
It was in a little pioneer fort of
Oapt Sutter's, formerly an officer of the
Swiss Guard of Charles X of France,
that the announcement was made that
shook the world in 1848, and produced
scenes of unparalleled excitement
Prom every part of the globe came the
gold seekers, from Chile, Peru, from
ancient Cathay, from the Sandwich
Islands, from England, France and
\ Russia. Says Capt Sutter of that
memorable morning in 1848: "I was
sitting in my tiny fort when Mr. Mar
snail, wno was digging a mm race tu
Coloma, on the American river, burst
Into my presence. He was white as
ashes and greatly excited. .1 glanced
at my rifle to see if it was in its place,
for in those days we lived in perpetual
expectation of attack from Indians.
No! Marshall flung on the table a
handful of scales of pure virgin gold.
I was thunderstruck. He explained
how he had found it along the left
bank of the stream."
A pioneer tells the story of the fearv
fnl gold-dust fever. "Two years after
the discovery of gold on the American
river by Marshall, I, like thousands of
others, got the 'gold fever/ and I got it
/ bad. To this land of gold promise J
. came the bravest and best men of the
older states. They were the daring
spirits of the old home, who, ill-content
to vegetate amid the scenes of their
birth, took heart of hope, ^nd through
* "* fo.
weexs ana muuuis vx yciu &?v, *?i
N tigue tolled across the waterless and
savage-peopled wastes to the land afar.
They lit their campfires of buffalo
chips and sagebrush and tossed in un*
easy dreams at night with their guns
for pillows. The reveille that woke"
them was often the crack at rifles in
the hands of the savages. For days,
weeks and months they thirsted and
hungered amid the alkali deserts and
the rocky canyons, and when they
reached the land of promise there was
little left them but their splendid
manhood, brains and brawn.
"The prairie schooners from Missouri
and Arkansas, drawn principally
by oxen or mules, formed a continuous
line of march by every route leading to
the south pass of the Rocky mountains.
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i* The late Dr. Stlllman, who conducted
a hospital at Sacramento in
\ '48 and '50, estimated that, in seeking
tiie 'golden fleece,' in less than one
year 10,000 young men who had started
with cheers and song were sleeping
beneath the wild flowers."
During the year 1848 $10,000,000 in
I gold was extracted from the mines,
| principally from the Yuba, Feather
I and the American rivers, and from the
gulches connected therewith; the rocaI
er, the shovel, the prospecting pan and
I the crevice knife being the only ma
chinery employed. Over $40,000,000
i, was obtained in '49. From 1848 .to
1870 $1,000,000,000 was the gold ontpnt
of the state of California. Throughout
the first three years of the mining
excitement every article of trade
had to be imported.
"Si compre oro aqni" (gold dust
bought here) should be the legend of
; California.
And Daddy Took the Hint
Miriam Field is not quite nine. Also,
she is very polite; of that there can
be no possible doubt. A favorite uncle
is visiting the family and Miriam
wishes him to spend all his time with
her. Uncle Roger and Dad were discussing
politics after dinner, a day
or two ago, about the time Dad is
In the habit of bringing in enough
coal to last for another twenty-four
i. hours. Miriam hung around her uncle,
I r tried to catch Dad's eye, stood first
1 on one foot, then on the other, and at
1 last at a lull in the conversation her
?* "Dsddv. don't von
rTVlVX nao ? ? v > w
have to bring In any coal today?"
k China Gets Back Pavilion.
The beautiful pavilion on the TarW
tar city wall above Chienmen gate In
Peking has been returned to Chinese
custody. In the mutiny of the troops
in Peking early in 1912, after Yuan
Shih-kai had assumed the presidency,
, f the commanders of the foreign legaL
tion guards in the capital decided that,
wL as a military measure, the pavilion
h should be occupied by foreign troops.
The American legation guard has occupied
it ever since.
Both Welcome.
"A wedding is not half a wedding
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[ an exchange. Yon can also spell it
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