The record-union., 1892-09-12
Glowing Tribute to the Resources
of Placer County.
MAN BURNED TO DEATH IN A
LODGINGHOUSE FIRE.
at Coronado Beach Collapses, Pre-
cipitating All the Occupants, About
Fifty in Number, Into the Baylor
tunately All We're Rescued Alive.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

SNhobSiS AL orc hSSCtlCu AilNSs
Special to the REcoRD-UNIoN.
AUBURN, Sept. 11.-A large and enthu-
siastic audience greeted Mr.. Bowman
and Judson Brusie at the Opera-house
last night. Mr.. Brusie, in his opening
address, paid the following tribute to
Placer County. He said:
when California first disclosed her
unfathomable riches to the world, no
spot, or place, or locality contributed
more to that marvellous revelation than
the county within whose borders I find
myself tonight.
1.-The history of Placer County can be
found upon the pages containing nara
tive which reads like romance, and con-
stitutes record of the greatest progress
and development that has ever marked
the history of any other county within
the State. Those great potent influences
which shaped the destiny of this grand
commonwealth first held their sway from
the mountain tops of Placer County; the
money powers of the Old and New
World stood in supplication at her feet,
and who is there who would eliminate
from her history those records that were
made among the foothills of California at
time when there was no law bat Ma
lures, no restrictions save the limit to
mans endeavor and endurance?
Orchards may have grown where the
chaparral held sway, grain fields may
now be waving where native grasses OF
the soil once grew, flower beds may now
be blooming where the thistle and the
| thorn like savage monarchs reigned; but
| the footprints of the miner are imbedded
within the very rocks of California, and
are as imperishable as the rocks them
| selves. A man living in Placer County
without a feeling of pride is recent inn
portation, unfamiliar with her history,
unacquainted with her heroes, ignorant
of her traditions, unmindfuI of her
achievements and Indifferent as to her
fate.
AT time when the precious metals of
| the earth were rapidly diminishing and
the commercial marts of the world were
distressed in the contemplation of de-
Ginning specie, California, with her lapful
| of golden nuggets from Placer, Nevada,
FL Dorado and Amador Counties,
knocked at the gate Of every port in the
world, and in the distribution of her pre-
cious load revived the commerce OF the
seas, gave new life and hope to the people
OF every cline, and bestowed upon her.
self that wOndrOuS renOwn of which we
now so proudly boast. The safety of this
nation depended upon these resources,
which were so generously forthcoming
from the very gulches and ravines that
are to this very day confronting us on
every side, as silent and sad reminders of
the worth, loyalty and devotion that
marked the pathway of our pioneers.
Nor does Placer county's contribution
to the wealth of the world end here,
Where the rudely constructed cabin of
the miner marked the spot of temper
airy abode, we now find buildings built
upon the bedrock, standing for all time
to come. Those sparkling streams avail
able forces of nature) that rushed down
the mountain gorges, on and on, unin-
terrupted to the sea, have since been har-
messed to those great wheels which fur
nish light and power. Those little, yell
low twining mountain trails that looked
like veins upon the foreheads of the hills
have grown to great arteries Of commerce
and traffic. Those terrific, unyielding
streams that in moments changed matter
into space and dissolved great noun
tains, as the MONDAY sun dissolyes fall
of snow, are now flowing down in peace
full channels and, like silver threads, steal
away to the roots of the vine and tree
until rocky gorges have become Iuxuri-
ant shades and barren plains are now as
rich and fertile as the Garden of Hes
perides' Again is Placer County knock
ing at the ports Of every nation, and from
the same spots where she found the lumps
of gold she is now dispensing a more de-
licious and delicate commodity with even
more generous returns. For it has been
said that the roots of Placer County's
trees being imbedded in the golden sands
of her prolific soil gives color and tint to
her fruits as rich and yellow as the pre-
cious metal itself.
mo better illustration of the great
strides of civilization could be given than
the picture of Placer County with her
monitors, sluice boxes and cabins of 40
| compared to her homes, schoolhouses
and churches, orchards, vineyards and
commercial vigor of'92."