Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-26

border land 81 every country and mon
with no country to boast their own in
short, fortune hunters the world over who
could by hook or crook get passage 10 tho
new II Dorado hicd there with tho desper.
alton Of spirits bound 20 make or break
And they didn't 20 In driblcts, glying
time for asslmilaiiouj them was a fool "
deluge and the population jumped from
1000 souls tn 10000 In a year from tho
time the first Australian nuggets were do.
played on the Strand In London. The rich
digginga Of the time were located In nn In
significant strip u mountainous cuHGt Mt
the cxtrmc southern nolnt ~ tho island,
about 900 miles long b. 800 wide.
The country about that time became
separate political division under the super
latively loyal title Of Victoria, although, u
course, there g. nothing In name.
The population oi mining camp h not
specially qualified TO make any great sacri.
flee 20 uphold an attribute 40 Fhadowy ne
meru political dignity, nnd a vast squntting
ground Of diggcrs was what the British
queens young prptego speedily became A
cotcinporary hlEtorian wrote Of it. peoples
'From California came wild men, tho
waits Of societies which had submitted u
or practiccd lynch law. The social testers
Of France, Italy and Germany shed cXfolin.
lions upon Australia. The fehelllous clc-
ment Of Ireland wns there. The dis1p-
pointed crew who thought 20 frighton the
British Islc' FROM their propricty In 1873
were represented In some strength"
The convict element OF Australia com
pletod the vile Ingredients. with ship.
loads of such immigrants unlondcd daily
nj the Victorian port, the colonial Hnthorl.
tiss-which means officials sent cut by the
home government wouldn't naturally iiud
their rule a holiday outing under the best
Of circumstance And circumstances
could not well be other than tough NJ.
things were. The land was Thousands of
miles from tho worlds storehousei, and IN
itself produced nothing 10 make lie worth
living for gold alone cannot do that Pro-
visions became so scnnt that the govern
munt could barely feed tho convict, Of ia
penal colony. Freight from the scashoe
100 miles inland, rose ~ riOO ton. and
all classes went rold mad; servants bolt.d.
ships crews, portcr-. driyow aud even po.
licemcn ran oil to the diggings. The lucky
ones returned 10 tho capital town aud port
20 display their wealth AMI incltc the
cupldlty of the conservative stay az homes,
aud this thing going on Tor mouths pro-
duccd lover that upset everything aud
chaos wasn no time far away The best
ching and about the ouly good thing was
gold, gold In heaps at that, and this every
body couldn't pick up Just 10 the liking
Poverty will not abolish Itself even In 90
IL Dorado
After tho boom had reached stat
bordering on psrmancncc, the colonial ON
GERS hit upol the clumsy idea Of making
the camp pay it, own way In the matter o
administrative expenses through liccns'
tax on Individual miners that l., oycrj
spade and pick, practically, must Haunt IL
license stamped with the colonial seal
The tax at first was Al lOs n month an,
was soon doubled. and every dclinquon
was torn from his pit md placed In u chat
gang 20 work out the fec At hard labor
The lucky fellows In the dlgglugs didn'
mind such tFllrs Us u pound OF two ut all