Daily Republican., 1880-02-04
Gold King. .fCaIifornIs.


"She vas th- wife Of my benrfactor,
said Senator Sbaron, AZ be present ted
! NJ S. RAlston with $500 600. Ralston
had treated him kindly in tims past.
II was through his attention and favor
that Sharon was called ont from adver.
sity and directed towards afiluence. He
never forgot his bsnefactor. When
Rslpton was TO more, As assumed his
debts, lont the bank s5, 900 600 to
strengthen II in It's emergency, and
then conferred = fortune OF half mil.
lion on his brok sn.hearted widow.
The iron roadway spans the CONT.
nent and connects tho Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. San Francisco and New
York are brought together In bonds Of
metal. Dogged perseverance aud Gov
ernor Stamford did it-snfOrcei it.
against slorm Of ridicule. How wild
the thought how vaiu, with the
Rocky Mountains intsrposing their in
surmountabls barrier to the utopi an
project The thing seemed visionary.
But Stamford thought otherwise.
lie did not believe in the im-
possible. Hopkins, Brocker, and Cotton
sad "we beli-ve"-aIl the world doubt.
ed. Money they wantrd.
They had mOrs-unConquerable en-
terprise. Rothsghild's Millions would
have been powerless 10 accomplish such
work. 1t reqnired something deserve
to be- what u ey are--.he great railroad
managers Of the world. Their average
wealth is SIS 100000.
Poor, Rslsion Poor, indeed, he seem !
cd, a. his pulse's5 body was dragged
from the water. Once the rich Salston
H. who made the Bank Of Ca'i.ornia--
who was the life of the city he loved ID
well-ths very idol OF San Francisco!
Was new enterprise 10 be project
ed, RalstOn was IT'S l-ad1r. Ha3 a
dnercal storm brewing, Ralston's in
terpositiou was sure to break its power,
RaIs,on owned he water Eorks; Rails
tor'6 money moved ths immense crops;
RalstOn' Hotel was the wonder OF the
world. Aud yea the great Ralston died
poor. Equal TO the accomplishment Of
laterprisrs Thought to be impossible,
be was coward when his defalcatior
was uncovered and he passed from the
bank copc,ave through little side
'oar, and threw himself into the water.
Death before exposure Hal he
b-sn as honest as he was energetic,
what glory would he have achieved for
SaB Francisco
California is o spectacle. The world
views her as chill lren look upon the
play of Aladdin. Wonderful land Of
of 10000 acre farms, of
30 mile wheat fields, of 100, 900 acre cat :
.le ranches, Of mighty forest giants, and
'taunch indomilabls men. FrindlardeI
! king Of the grain market; four men
'Ontrol the gold market. Maok-y's in {
oome waa 81, 600 600 per month, or s25
,ach minute, night and day, Sundays
snd holidays. The Rothschilds grew to t
heir present wealth through the extra {
'dinary emergency OF war, and csntu.
les Of business push and sagacity.
3ut in California men become greater
han Rothschld in few years. Not in
'o,d only but in everything. There
men seem to develop lik. their great /
rees, great vegetables and mammoth 9
ruits.
There must BE- greatness in the very
tmosphere, and ia the soil. Aud yet
70 we'll remember when the first me-. :
hanical regiment plodied over the :
Rockies" under the lead Of Fremont, n
0 fight the Indians AMI build haJ.ta. II
ions. Gold was discovered, thu sol 81
iers sloped for diggings. and California
'as soon the Mecca of our people.
Food and O'Brien kept liquor shop .
nee. Floods income is greater than
.Othschild's. Fiuigan was a hostler \
q is now worth "a 100000. Haywood h
judged TO the mines on foot, carrying Il
is sack of provender on his back; hp "a
millionaire 10 a month or
20. Lucky Baldwin was a stable man;
9 is an SIS, ,0C0, 900 man to-day. Ophir :
i'd it.