The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-03-20
WHAT THE PROsPECTORS HAVE
DONE

icHi"f
ties Of the American people as adVeh-
tnrers explorers and enterpr'slng
,ioneers. Fremont's Account was eager
" read by thousands in whom II
.tered burning thirst for TIE 70
,,ance Of rerilons travel and SINCE
:. Tho ps,hdnder's " published expeH
e,ce there hare been thousands foIi""
i,a his trail going further and away
hevord his researches, until fhTre are
whole communities that have taken we
,l,ca IF the Individual frontiersnlen and
Trainer, whose names and adventures
,tened wonder and admiration among
tho school bows of twenty wears az"
Stimulated by the prospects OF e"S'I'
acquired wealth, the beet maternal Of
the then rising generation pressed i
brarelv forward across the great f'a'hs'
around the Horn and over the lSthmns
-on,.s. until not only every State, but
every township in every State hSo us
REPRESENTATIVES among the gold d'gPefS
of the New FL Dorado. The restiessness
, of,ha, hardy generation has not "oH'eui
nor has it died on, in their chllareh'
The perils which were borne by IRE
t mon, and the LITTLE band who accom-
,anied him, were such as have. since
e his time. been experienced ny thonS'
:, .,Ss until the recital of such stores
t a. his have become part of the every
" 5sv life of multitudes. I've men
n women and children who followed the
q slow tread of oxen from the Missouri
y 70 the Sacramento Valley the tens oi
n. thousands who settled the great wilder
m ness of the Sierras; the deiude1 search
e-s for. Gold Lake" ard its chinerica
he ,-sasr~es: the victims Of " Si'!'
Ne Rlnf;" the pioneers of Kern kvtr
ct the exployers of Fraser River ,n'
Us ,oiling prospectors who hraveI M
nd dangers of the desert to solve the prom
lem of Washoe the pioneers of Idaho
Montana ard Arizona, enhrnce al
go aggregate of hundreds Of 'hons'n j
whose personal experiences are made
he Of what would FL Volumes Of sue
70, ots az the story Of Lewis and CLARKE
hat and the once famous book purpor'In
ne tn be relation of facts oT Col Jon
ing Charles Fremont. Henry ThoreH"'
~, o,a of his naculiar and intensely 1n'e
the ssti,v volumes. calls attention to "
c or fart that the New England settlers we
and not given to explorations hut th''
~ far as the discoveries of the far We
.ble were concerned, we owed them 70 L
9, OF Frsncb and Spanish adventurers vi
lo>t invaded the forests and visited :
Isl; Indian tribes in search of gold, and
that ,ursuance of their Jealous endeavo
we n establish among the aborgines t
und Christian faith. Be this as 1T may,
,ked sonso Of New England have not failed
ls it sous VI
,ti.v ;o;r their bretheren Of other natlon
tiles ana Sect IONS III ut'o-'P''e '
md sonrces of the Pacific Coast; and no
'y IN side by side with thu Frenehman'
Mexican, the Euglisbm man, the CANADA
1.-The German, the Jew, the SoutheFi
rous and the Irshman, the Yankee haste
nthe .Io,p to secure to himself a share OF
loor riches of the treasure laden mounta
'pe"- and promising valleys that lie along
49,; coursa of the {. Star of Empire"
!" we all this comes of an almost univer
We susceptibility to the temptations
We uoold ,hat may BE- had for the pic Gin
The incentive may be Al lngiorl
were one bat the results arising from
oni,. will not be inglorious. What OF G
niger there is the hitherto valaeless area
f e ,ss territory lying within the Great 81
ire of will come to he scrambled over
II ND nossessed and made ready for the
m his Do ndine millions that are aire
'si. rrowdiag one another in the mari
" the the East and i'll the FIELDS OF the his
;, h sippi Valley. As it is one vast
t Col from the Aueghanies to the MISS
er oc- and from the Lakes TO the Gull, :
bsolu- ia one Immense miHe OF P'e'' US
n thus from the Sierra to the Rocky NJ