Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-24

same implement. The hight of the stories
same as in southeast bastion. The roofs of
both bastions flat, covered with earth Mex
lean style, with an additional roof covered
with shingles, as shown in bro s-eye view
of the fort. The guns mounted in this bas-
ton were brought out in 1916, and in 1S47
the floor of the second story was removed.
The room was thereafter used as storage
for hay, until the fort was abandoned.
"q' Open space-no room-where Pick
ct killed "The White Horse
The building marked r was erected be-
fore 1874, for distillery. Fremont found
it in use for distilling grapes. 1t was 60x25
feet, two stories high. Suffer continued TO
use this building as distiliery until 1886
when be discontinued the business of dis
tilllDg, because he found that he could not
keep the product from his Indian laborers
or soldiers. The whole distillipg apparatus
was still kept in the building, with view
to future use; but when the immigration
of 1S4S came his wheat was destroyed and
he never resumed the business.
50 Tool house, for implements used in
distilling.
''t' was temporary structure, put up in
the fall of 1S47 or spring of 1885, for the
convenience Of immigrants; built by one
Ky5urz.
II
still standing, and we propose in our next
number of this series of articles to give in
detail an account of it.
The room marked u. 50x17, in 1913 was
used by the firm of Priest, Lee & Co. as q
store for general supplies to miners.
The room was for the same time occu-
pied for like purpose by Hensley, Read
ing & Co.
The room 10, at the northeast corner, was
for the same time occupied for like pur-
pose 10y C. E Picket.
The room 4. with those marked q and 2,
were family rooms, kept for the accommo-
dation of immigrants. The open space be-
tween rooms marked and in diagram,
was gate, kept generally closed in early
times. The wall of the fort was built
above the gate, and the opening was
through the wall.
Suffers Fort has become thing of the
past. Until the summer OF 1S49 certain
business nen chung to it as headquarters
for business, but trade went TO the river
front and along the streets of the city, and
the fort, as business center, was aban.
doned as early as November, 18i9
Brsnnan's store. shown at B in the cut,
was turned into hospital. The materials
of which the fort was constructed were re-
quired for buildings elsewhere, as building
materials in 1S49 and 1850 were scarce and
high.
The outer walls of the fort, built of
adobes, were two and half feet thick and
eighteen feet high. The inner and parti-
ton walls eighteen inches thick and the
inner wall about fourteen feet high. The
slope of the roof was inward and covered
with sugar pine shingles.
The interior building was occupied first
as boarding house in 1S47, and afterwards
| in 1850 as a dwelling. The walls of the
| fort shut out the world from view, and
those living inside wanted them removed.
Under these circumstances before 1858
all the materials constituting the fort had
been removed and used elsewhere.
The adobes even were taken away for
use, and no vestige of the structure remains
TO mark any line of the fort, except at the
place where was the northwest bastion, a
| little elevation is shown to mark it. No
man can trace the walls of the fort by any
/ appearance on the surface.
We were able to establish the corners
only in this way: T. street near the south
| west angle was a fill not an excavation.
Blacksmith Fairchild kept his coal in the
room at that angle. An enterprising at
| torpey in 1872 had a case where it was
necessary to establish thst angle. He sent
| Mr. Fairchild with a surveyor and some
| laborers to make explorations. They found
the line of the cosl-room by excavations,
and thus established the inner angle of the
| tort. BY adding the thickness Of the wall
| the outer lire WIS established, and by aid
| of the building still standing the whole fort
! IS spread out to view in TKenis, as it CD.
{ peared in 1913 with as much accuracy in
its detsils as is now possible.