The Lamar register., 1892-08-20

]. aged. but nll along through the
net hi'eeu or twenty years II every
man who wanted to 70 home could
have gone there would have been
nothing leit in the sicrras but graves.
ia-aps OF gravel, prospect holes and
battered old picks. shovels, toms,
rockers. boots, broken bottles and so
op- The whole land would have been
i Il Hs quiet and empty up there as a
D sai mans hand.
But years later. when men LEI, Cali
iornia. still fort une- hunting. and went
10 the northern mines, they somehow
for'ot all a. ont tho Old word. and
when fortune found them they came
back 70 Cali!orni to live and to die.
lh-rc WAS ne thing. however, very
dramatic IN this short, safe return
from the nT,r,hern mines in the days
O. sthSo- steamers and railroads back
70 the Golden gate. Still il was an
event ana was enjoyed by all most
tssnr' ily IA each camp. And il always
seemed TO me that the men who took
We deepest and tenierrst interest in
tho 'going home" o. one their number
were the very men who were most
hfipless and most incapable OF reach.
Tug this one desired md.
know tbsst when IL b. gan TO be
Whispered about that Fred Adams of
canyon Gty had made his pile and
Was going home there was Joy in the
hrA1 OF many n gray headed man
Ehc knew right well it would never he
- a OF him that he had made his pile
md that he was going home" And
when Fred Adams quietly slipped out
I Of cAmpdoNn to a TREND house and
: ayed all naht and weighed his gold
d ~ there on the butchers scales be
10 = starting Rt dAybreak the next
morning. and when the news came
back TO town that the dust weighed
Will ni.l to hundred p unl-. l tell
you there were tel-- OF delight in
many IN Old mans Eyes at thought
Frcis ooi fortune. We cHllel
/ him -'Frcl" Adams mp tnere; but lis
7 u am- Is Judsr Adams by title aud
/ risht; and be i now one OF the rich
o ( lawyers OF san FRANCISCO.
] Tie hrst going home | ever saw
VA on Humbus Greek, Northern Cali
l. NffAHNAs IN AalF " aAA-fE " AIAta AfaA
I vrnit took men OF grit TO get there
Z T b. coWtr,l- had never started there
/ - Il the weak died on the way, so they
" rc a powerful and select lot o, men,
Rtd IL took nerve. time ami dust, too,
TO act away from there. Think of IL.
To mites IN foot over n mountain
/ o. -now to Yreka, then hundreds OF
m T.. through the shvAees by mule to
/ p iftiand, thea a 81 ling vessel to San
/ + anci-co, thea the steamer, Panama,
NV Orleans, up the Mississippi. and
50 on
hal cen blown into this canyon
AZ the forks OF the Humbug. rs bir J.,
| Ly the winter storms and had to
D. de over n mighty hard month or
| two can tell yo Z. / first rot a place
! ~ cook for my boa d. But the pro-
81 i.ioas gave out pretty soon ana
| hal TO 30. Then Frank Campbell,
bro her of the late Bart'ey Campbell
dramatist and member of the Idaho
| [ - stature when last h-aId from, got
me q place 70 sat up with miner VINO
Ind b en- hurt in a slide. got no
| WAGES, but ~ had TO 1T up at nleht
I n ,,i 20 di.lut . eel n bed, and as the
m, "A uns too badly hurt to eht the
I u ais sent him rom the hote d u
/ n suffer, but soon made riends lth
% moor man by reading to HIM
I,t-o OF miners USED to drop IN after
,,,,,tt and smoke and listen. The
hook Was Harrison Ainsworth 8
move : all hound up together, ''DIck
Tu-pin, "Jsck Shepherd and so on
Never had man or boy such listeners
And " en- |, 80 years la sr, told dear
olI Aiusyorth in Lond II how h. had
b.rn read and listen d 10 IN he heart
oi the Sierra, he nearly crushed nv
hand in his two hands. But TINS is
scat ering birdshot; let US get ior-
ward.
/ IL il mavelous how ignorant those
men were. They were from what was
then the "border missouri
ans, and doubt if one-halt oil them
could write their names. l know righe
well what say, for i VT tie many let
tors for them. of course there were
. other men tn re from other countries.
Pat Flanagan. for instance, who Kept
/ the store. From France, doyou say?
No. he was a white Irishman with
1 very black beard. and is now the rich
and influential president OF the Coos
Bay Bank. He was very popular
then. as he is still, / reckon. and see
ing the dismal ignoran of the miners
h and Frank Campbell set n commit
tee to work to get up public lib
rary." And this is one OF it's meth
o.s: The secretary tackled up the fol
lowing notice on the door OF the sa'
loon known as The Howlin' Wilder
ness"
know all men that emmy book in
this ere camp belongs to the publick
library except the holy bibel and emmy
man found gilty OF taking emmy book
except said bibel will be hungfor horse
stealing so hrlp me eSd, Z, a;rsnT. ssnsu and nd
librarion OF bored OF oi,ecoot' en''
secretary OF sid library"
The result was, a preacher who
went away as provisions got short
let behind a copy OF Josephus. This
n,ade three books 10 the library now
and Pat Flannsan employed me al
SO so day. or rather az hour, iol
the man could not stand more, TO g
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