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 1854.
Sometime 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. lie
sailed from Fort Vancouver to the Sand
wich Islands in the hope to reach Calitor-
MIA from that point. But failing to tlnd
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 he became Mexican citizen, and
located on u tract awarded him at this point,
from which he traced the courses OF the Sac
ramentO and American and Feather rivers.
His colony was meager one, consisting OF
but eleven persons. three of whom only
were white. the remainder being Sandwich
Islanders. This was in August, 1889, and
his first location was on the American, but
he presently established himself at point
now within the corporate limits of Sacra-
mento, and where the rrumbling ruins OF
an old adobe and = few elevations of ground
mark the site of
Suffers FORT.
An historic relic which, TO our shame be it
said. has not been preserved a. it well
might have been. restored as ii should be,
or honored as it may be by Memorial
structure New Hclyetia now Sacramento,
was born Of this pioneer enterprise OF SUIT
ter. 1t became, later on, the chief objective
point for immigration, the hOSpitahic shel-
ter for all strangers, the center OF an early
trade, and finally the great point of depart
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gions. that developed as by the flash ot
magic wand when. at Suffers Mill, in jan
uarv, 1913. James W. Marshall discovered
the first gold of the SierraS. Marshall,
stopped with fastdeclining years. to-day will
be an object of curious interest in the pro-
cession, where he is expected 10 ride rs
guest of the sons of the men who locked
hither by the hundred thousand, when hls
wonderful discovery could no longer be
kept secret by himself and Sutter. He
still lives poor man, a type Of 4 vast army
of 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
Door and with buried ambitions Marshall
still lives. but Sutter went to his grave in
poverty, diving far away from the New Hell
vetia he founded, and 50 much loved. To-
! day the lofty dome of the Capitol of free
State casts its pitying shadows upon fast
crumbling walls of the rude buildings he
! erected when all this vast valley, and its ad-
| iacent hills were unknown to civilization
/ of which he was the first representative Ill
. the interior of 4 territory, now erected int
! a State of the American Union. Sutter 5
was a broad and generous nature; his was
hOspitablc heart and hand. He was thi
/ friend of the stranger, the bene1actor OF th'
distressed At one time the virtual ruler o
all this section, he was swept away by TIT
rcsistless tide of immigration that began 1t
flood in 1918, and in two years time bore
proud State of the Republic upon its wave