The union Democrat. [volume] (Sonora, Calif.) 1854-1946, 1871-05-13

on the river, of the living who once lived
there and now lise elsewhere, Of She living
who once lived here and ndw live nowhere
in behalf of all snch. make 1 yearly pill
grimage to the river to look upon the old
haunts, tc revive old associations, old pleas
ares. old miners. Iltave BEEN and gone and
done It. Here il is what there is, commenc-
| ing at Chinese Camp.
| CHINESE carr.
Chinese Comp as 10 business looks rather
serious. The empty brick store is here also.
|; seems sparse IN the matter of. adult poru-
lation hut crops out largely in children. The
hope of California les in the rising genera
tion. A decent regard for the future should
induce the elders 10 be vigilant to marry, to
multiply. The miaes are past their prime
the craps are not always certain; men are
wanted; Young widows are rot wanting.
Chinese Camp concentrates mainly about
Doctor Esrnlarius. Pnrgatise, Allopath
Sampson. Doctor Sampson is native OF
New England. He was horn in 1716. tonight
through the war of the Revolution. was a
delegate 10 the Hartford Convention. He
hled Gen. Washington twice after which he
came 10 California. lie mined for time and
then laid down the shoee and the hoe and
went about laying hands on the sick. His
field of practice now extends from jamestown
to the San Joaquin River and as SION rs a
railroad is built. facilitating travel i. will ex-
tend to the TETON Pass If not to Arizona.
IL Chinese still. they speak affectionatelv
and feelingly Of the times. when at the end If
the "Seasono the ..boys" used TO come up
from the river. Scarce any .shoysn are row
left to come up. Once in while one puts in
an appearance. and attempts the ghost of an
old fashioned spree, one of the sort that grew
in Sc or thereahouts. But nobody frater-
mixes he has in such matter to be entirely
self sustaining: and finally be drops the
whole thing in disgust and wends his way
hack to his lonesome Bar, resolving fer the
500h time to reform, to settle dawn on a
temperance basis, to start little ranch to get
a few goats, to be a man.
DOWN THE RIVER.
From Red Mountain tn Indian Bar there
now remains population of nine white men,
i You can't get up much of an excitemrnt on
the three miles of river thus tenanted A
few Cinnamon also delve at intervals along
the banks. strobe down the river and
agreeahly beguiled the tiule in thinking of
death. decay, the ruin ard downfall of En-
pires, the Last Judgment, and other similar
reflections called forth by the nature Of the
surroundings.
Hawkins Bar has population of one man
Smith. Smith mines and eats and smokes
and sieens there all alone. lie saw the Bar
in its golden infancy; he saw it in its zenith;
he sticks by il in its decay. There Is to me
Saith, remaining so many years on the old
B.r, n solitary animated pillar of the past.
dned with Smith, lie had beans too. As
hurns the eternal fire on certain Oriental
shrines. so ever hollis the miners beans upon
the Tu"lumne. Smith has chickens and
small garden. few feet behind his cabin
is the Hawkins Bar graveyard. few of
the dead rest under memorial stones. The
larger number of graves are unmarked
Were Smith imaginative he could have much
ghostly company. He knew ell these men
who sleep almost in his backyard. lie help
ed to bury them. Here, he stays one solitary
! living man, miles from other hahtation,
alone with fhe dead and the memories of the
past twenty years. Some would &c crazy in
such locality.
Smith saw Hawkins in s'49'' when but
seven men were there. lie saw it few
months aftetward "raised'' to thousand.
] He has there seen stores, saloons. gambling
tents and divers other resorts of wickedness.
i lie has seen the Bar decay building after
building. Down in the gulch is the dilapi-
! dated cabin of Morgan Davis. Morgan is
dead. Morgan some ten years agn accrmu.
! lated about himself the Hawkins Bar library
bought in the more prosperous days of the
| camp Morgan was great reader no mere
hook worm he; Morgaa was the literary ana
cnnds the Southern Mines in that little
IL X Is cabin half filled with hooks, hooks in
all the chairs, hooks on the bed, hooks in the
he'd, hooks en- Margan's table mixed I'D with
] bread, beef, molasses and hutter and there
during the long winner days and nights
would Morgan read and eat and sleep and
enjoy existence strangely eommngled
! with stewed aprle and Humboldt's Cosmos
beans aud Byron.
4 The hooks are all gone; Morgan is gone,
the floor has gene; within | saw a rough
home made hedstead. an old stove, broken
pat the linnets 1y i'll and out-ashes to
ashes, dust, to dust!
4 7 INDIAN BAR.
/ N.thing now remains Of Indian Bar save a
/ big bank of red uirr, two houses and three
men. | have there been spending several
DAYS principally for solitude. reflection and
beans The shows" eternallv have on hand
a big skillet Of fi1joleS. cooked l.. 40 la
Tuolumne. They know not now in all
places how to cook beans. They know no,
even what snrt az beans are the most proner
Ia cook The science OF doing up this sort of
bean properly is becoming ore Of the lost arts
of California. Nnne but an old miner can do
n - NJ, wOn,an can 0oca IN C.r Er.na