Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-26

/, Ting Oh the iron morse that has contrl Duted
to this. In the direction of enterprise q
notable event was inaugurated in your city
in the latter part of the year 1887 / refer
10 your local Board of Trade. This will
bring you into closer relations with other
portions of the country. l use the word in
its broadest term. Be enterprising, indus
| trious and active, and time will again
restore to you that grand title you once so
| proudly held, 1.-The banner county of
| the State" We of San Francisco, who
years ago lived among you, and who
! have come up to-day 10 exchange
friendly greetings and have a good time
generally, still claim a fellowship with the
residents of FL Dorado county; and let me
assure you that we look with eager eyes,
and hear with great pleasure, to what is
| going on in our former homes, and when
ever the opportunity offers to promote your
interests and welfare it shall be done with
a hearty good will, as well for old-time
sake as for the present and future. Indeed,
we of the seashore still feel deep interest
! in the welfare of FL Dorado county, where
many of US have spent
THE HAPPIEsT AND GAYEsT
Part Of our lives. We are happy to see that
you are now more closely and expedi-
tiously connected with us; that you can
more conveniently and more comfort
| ably come and see us, and we you; that you
| can send US in fresher condition your
| luscious peaches, pears, plums and necta-
rines your unequaled grapes your finely
favored apples, and all the other varied
products of the orchard you raise in your
highly-productive soil.
Referring to soil, l find the following in
| the Assessors report for the year 1856 for
| Ell Dorado county: Whether the soil
| and oil IF HI Dorado &c 81
the culture of the fruit, is somewhat pro-
blematical )" but that peaches are thrifty
and delicious it is no longer problematical,
| for the fact has been grandly realized that
| your soil is unsurpassed for fruit; in truth,
all things that will grow in California rise
! to perfection in your soil.
The Ell Dorado County Society of San
Francisco sincerely appreciate the more
than cordial welcome that has been ex-
| tended to them by the citizens of Placer
| vile. The time-honored generosity and
| proverbial good feeling that always char
| acteriZed the people of old Ell Dorado in
days OF yore-it makes me happy to state
| it-still abides with you, and is most grand
Gf ly manifested towards US on this occasion
| OUR PILGRIMAGE TO PLACERvILLE.
| The salutatons and greetings that are ex-
90 where we will, your hearty welcome
awaits us. Our visit to you, however, will
| be fraught with mixed feelings in one re-
| spect. Friends OF way back Will meet and
| clasp handS-aye, some whose hearts are
! imbued with great depth of tenderness and
affection will embrace one another, for il
may occur that in some instances many
| years have elapsed since they gazed on
each other S faces. And methinks l can
! see on yonder hill or in that gulch or fiat.
few of that sturdy band of brave hearts
and generous spirits who came to
this county in the halcyon days of
the fall of 40 or spring of so,
| who, perchance, if they have
at any time visited the city by
I the Golden Gate may not have met all of
the old boys who live there. With such,
| happiness will reign supreme in their ex-
change of the history of their lives since
last they met. There is the other picture
to be drawn. Those who ask, :" Is so-and-
so here yet?' or, What has become of
Bob, or old Joe, as we used to call him ?"
and such similar question, and the answer
comes, "Oh, he has been gone these many
| years." or may be the response will
| be he's dead; and to such of us who have
not visited this city or county for quarter
| of a century or more, the list of those
| OoAASb III tAlC oehAiCO oOl1 vi lIlS Clly Cl the
| departed will be q numerous one. MANY
of those genial spirits that were wont to
make life and society enjoyable are laid
away in the silent grave. To-day we eat,
drink and are merry; tomorrow we die
| know that | bespeak the universal and
proyerbial sentiment of all when | say that
| the history Of modern times contains no
! page or furnishes any data of such q pre-
| ponderance Of
BRAVE, STURDY AND ADVENTUROUS
| People as came to California from 40 to 'E3,
and besides, be it truthfully said, very
| large proportion of the males were men of
education, culture and refinement The
learned professions were represented by
many who had already attained eminence.
| The daring and bravery required to cross
| the plains; to encounter the deadly vapors
of the isthmus; the more than one sieve
like vessel that came around the horn-to
undertake these several modes of reaching
| the land of gold, on the shores of the Pa
cific, indeed did require intrepidity of no
ordinary cast.
Providence never supplied for the settle
ment of new country better representa-
tive class of the human family than came
| here in 1919 and the early SOS. In assert
ing this do not wish to be understood that
it was only during those years that good
people came here-they have always been
coming-and the signs of the times are
that they are coming several hundred
| thousand more.
| 1t is most proper and fitting that we who
| still survive those who came here in the
early days should reverentIy refer at our
annual reunions to them who laid the
foundation of this great State. Those
| pioneers are
| FAST PASSING AWAY
To join the great majority, and let US hope
that in their blessed abode above they are
looking down kindly upon the native sons
and daughters who are rapidly taking their
places, not only here, but throughout the
breadth and length of this great common
wealth. We of the sea shore shall carry
back to our homes grateful recollection of
the kindness, friendship and genuine hos
pltality we have experienced during our So
Journ among you. And now finally,
friends and fellow-citizens, an apology may
be needed for the length and tediousness of
my address. But bear in mind that many
years may eldpse ere another like gathering
of the e old boys may occur in your city.
May this great ssemblage of friends from
far and near once in a while arise in your
| minds and engender pleasant reflections of
the " days of old, the days of gold, the days
OF 49,"
OUR DEAD.
| Let US here pause for a moment. with
bowed head and bated breath, from mem
ory call the roll " of our dead, many of
whom sleep profoundly on your hill-sides,
while the signing pines sing q solemn re-
QUEEN DER their honored graves, while
thousands are awaiting the trumpet's
sound, i'll the hallowed ground OF nearly
every State and country under the sun
John Hume, E. B. Carson, Walter Burr
ell, Alex Hunter, Dave Johns, John
O'Donnell, Cornelius Russell, Matt Metz
lar, Professor Cole teacher Cyrus Bartlett
Judge James johnson, Wm. NJ. Donahue
DIR. E. A. Kunkler, George Barnham, John
Kirk, Colonel Wm. Jones, Theo Wickman.
Albert Bell, B. f. Post, John Nell. George
II. Gilbert, DIR. Ire Glynn. Jos. NJ. Staples
Jacob Witz, Giuseppe Rolleri, Henry Van
Voorhies, III. G. Sloss, John Roy. Kinny.
Dave Miller, II. Gateman, Michael Scherrer.
William Lacey, Andrew Kennedy, Rrewst.
Herrick, q. w. Mountjoy Seneca Davis.
Walter NJ. Reynolds, j. L. Perkins, T. VIII
| cox. Fred Hunger, Judge Irvine Judge
Bush, Thomas McMannis, Hon. S. W.
Sanderson, Henry Raphael, old man Tor
| neywold, d. X. Newell, d. w. Gelwicks
Thomas Downing. DR.. Robert Rankin. DIR.
5. +. Childs. Lawyer Ward, Theodore +.
Tracey DR.. W. III. Stone, w. Frank Stew
art, +. t. Mcbride, Thomas Covstile, Sr..
Thomas Coystile Jr, Lewis w. Rumsey
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