Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-09

hood sought the shores of the home OF
liberty, arriving in New York in 1884
Sometime q resident of Missouri the spirit
of adventure and exploration was too strong
for him to resist, and he set out for the far
West, reaching, with a small party, the
northern coast of what is now Oregon. He
sailed from Fort Vancouver to the Sand
witch Islands in the hope to reach Califor-
MIA from that point. But failing to find
transportation, he again embarked for Rus
sian America, and from its shores secured
passage for California, reaching Yerba
Buena July ., 1889, but was driven to re-
embark and only landed when he reached
Monterey. To enable him to secure grants
of land lie became n Mexican citizen, and
located on a tract awarded him at this point,
from which he traced the courses of the Sac
ramento and American and Feather rivers.
His colony was a meager one, consisting of
but eleven persons. three of whom only
were white, the remainder being Sandwich
islanders This was in August, 1899, and
his first location was on the American, but
he presently established himself at Il point
now within the corporate limits of Sacra-
mento, and where the crunibling ruins of
an old adobe and la few elevations of ground
mark the site OF
Suffers FOET.
An historic relic which. TO our shame be il
said, has not been preserved aS it well
might have been. restored as it should be,
or honored as it may be by a Memorial
structure. New Helyetia, now Sacramento,
was born of this pioneer enterprise of SUIT
ter. 1t became, later on, the chief objective
point for immigration, the hospitahlc shell |
ter for all strangers, the center of an early |
trade, and finally the great point of depart |
urn f,y aud from, M t,i,ir,,,
gions, that developed as by the flash OF a |
magic wand when, at Suffers Mill, in Jan |
uart, 1913, James W. Marshall discovered |
the first gold of the Sicrras Marshall, |
stopped with fastdecliningy years, to-day will |
be an object of curious interest in the pro- |
cession, where he is expected to ride us a
guest of the sons of the men who hocked |
hither by the hundred thousand, when his
wonderful discovery could no longer be
kept a secret by himself and Suffer. He |
still lives poor man, type OF i vast army |
IF Pioneer men who, having the Opportu
mites to amasS untold wealth. failed TO
secure the favor Of the tickle goddess, and
have come down to this generation
poor, and with buried ambitions. Marshall |
still lives, but Suffer went to his grave in
poverty, dying far away from the New Hell
vetia he founded, and SO much loved. To
day the lofty dome Of the Capitol of a free
State casts its plying shadows upon fast
walls of the rude buildings he !!
erected when all this vast valley, and its adj
accnt hills, were unknown to a civilization
Of which he was the first representative in
the interior of a territory, now erected into
4 State of the American Union. Suffers
was broad and generous nature; his was
a hospitable heart and hand. He was the
friend of the stranger, the benefactor Of the
distressed. At one time the virtual ruler of !
all this section, he was swept away by the |
tide of immigration that began lis |
food in 1913, and in two years time bore Il |
proud State of the Republic upon its wave. !