The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1879-10-28

Nay g. leo0eAu1 Wss Hone
OthGf Th2h 2fs. Governor Tabor
Tho Good Lady Bshearses the
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From ~ LeaA0lls OsrAiele.
The fourteenth day Of February.
l4e0r Sas alosss--sssssy~ysAss~-as a.
That cannot b helped. Tempus gill
fuget. Times wheels are unreves-
ible. nor will the water that once
passes the mill ever como hack to
grind. .
This Is the prelude to one of the
most interesting events in the annals
Of LeadvilIe. On that fourteenth day
Of February Q canvass cOsered wagon,
drawn By Two yokes Of oxen aud q
spau Of new mich cows. left the old
emigrast camp-grouod. nov pretty
generally known - Denver. The
wind, - it swept down through the
mountain passes and out acrDss the
plains. mas bitter cold. The unworked
trail was rough. The cattle ~ere
poor aud their lace MAS Slow
By their aide. carefully directing their
footsteps. was = msp in the prime Ot
life. He was not mountaineer. and
but for HE lone and weary tramp
scrose the irackl~ss plains his feet
would have been tender. That can
vsss covered wagon held the one most
dear to him on earth-his wife. They
had Travelled from the parental root
way down in the old State Of Maine.
With al iheir young welded bliss
they wanted gold. And up the rough
mountain sides they climbed, camping
10 their tented wagon At night, and
cooking their meals BY the side Of the
self bewn trail BY day. Their only
guides were the descriptive. trans
continental sketches of John Charles
Fremont, written thirteen years
before. They followed his lead up
through the wild mountain gorees.
and on the evening of the twelfth day
out from Denver they emerged into
that vide mountain plateau nov
known a South Park. 81 never
witnessed 90 gorgeous q sunset as on
that 26th day Of February, twenty
years ago" said the lady to the throni-
ele scribe last evening. I'VE came out
on the Park 1t about the place where
the railroad now enters. I remember
that after eating our supper and car
ing for the cattle that night We sat
By the blazing FIRE and tried hard. BY
means Of our maps and volumes
Of Fremonts lettera. to determine
where we were. We had heard that
there Vas gold in Cache creek. and
this was our objective point, hut how
to reach the locality irOm this track
les plain was q puzzle. I have always
been told. and I think it IL true. that
/ wss the first white woman Who ever
crnssed or sat eyes on South Park.
We wandered far from tho direct
course. but finally succeeded in reach
ing tho Arkansas River, which We
cr0ssed twenty miles below Helena.
We had . serious time IN getting over. |
The hlunden in the stream we're
covered with ice and about midway
the cattle refused to pull the load.
They were completely exhausted.
Wading out in the stream, husband
unyoked them from the wagon and
placing me On the strongest ones back
| was take to the opposite shore. u
did not mind the cold, but was great |
~ distressed through fear that our
provisions would be lost. After
kindling a Ere husband began bring |
ing the contents Of our wagon ashore !
on bis back. wading backwards and
forwards With the water to his waist |
It Vas seven hours from the time We
entered the river till our load was
safely landed on the opposite shore. |
We found gold on Cache creek. near
what u now known - Granite. but |
did not know how to save il. While !
here and disheartened some men came |
down and told us that gold had been
discovered 10 paying quantities twenty |
miles further up the river. in what
had been named California Gulch. !
We repacked our camping outfit with |
the short allowance of provisions that |
were left, and again tackling the cat |
tie to the wagon renewed our msrch.
It vas on the 9Th day Of MAY. 1860,
that the nov Mn. Governor Tabor
for this . the lady Of when We have
been writing-entared California |
Gulch. She was the 6st white woman |
that came. But seven men had been
here in advance of her husband. The
total population Of the Gulch. and for
twenty miles around. on the day of
her arrival. and including herself and
husband. was nine souls. There was
not cabin or q tent or any sign Of
human habitatiou. The men, elated
By the sight and presence Of q lady in
these Wild mountsin fastnessss, went
to work with will to provide her
With . house. The location was about
. mile and . halt up tho Orc road
nom the present city limits Of Lead
vile. The houss Ma . large ono
-16x26 feet. The men saved boards
With whip saw for . floor. and IN .
Iew days the 6rst white woman was
provided with . comfortable home.
Mr. Tabor Immediately took mp Q
lain aud began sluicing for gold.
''No. / Was not ct al homesick or
onely. replied Mn. Tabor. in auswer
o the scribss inquiry. "With the
,are o. my seven boarden-I did oil
ny own work-I had but little time
o b homesick. People whose time
. occupied By come industrious per-
nit are seldom sad or lonesome, let
hem be where they may. Besides .
cooking and wishing for the boarden.
re kept the express and the post. {
y(lSCe. the carr of which fall nrom nv /,