Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-30
A "FoRTY-NrNER- CAMP.
Interesting Reproduction for the
California Fair.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
According to Indications. the forty-niner
camp for which Maj Frank Mclaughlin,
Senator George G. Perkins, John L. Sabin
and Senator Foley OF Nevada obtained the
concession will prove an even more inter-
esting feature OF the fair than was at first
anticipated. Eugene Hahn. who has Just
returned to town after a tour through the
interior made in the interests OF the pro-
ject, reports that the collection of oId-tfme
relics and curiosities will be far more ex-
tensive than it was originally believed could
be brought together. A special feature VIII
be number OF the mining cabins occupied
in old days by distinguished Pacific coast
ers. not copies. be II understood but the
original structures. which have been taken
apart and will be transported to this city
and re-erected at the fair. senator Perkins
old cabin at Thompson's Flat in whi,h In
old days he lived ana slept ana cooked his
hapjacks and beans. is one OF those which is
to come here. Senator Fairs is another ana
John Mackay's is still a third An earnest
enort was also made to obtain the CoIoma
cabin OF James w. Marshall the original
discovsrer OF gold, but the state owns IL
ana permission to remove IL could not be
obtained. As the next best thing, however
fac-simile OF the structure will be erected
and within IL will be exhibited any number
OF actual relics OF the dead and gone dis
coverer. Among these will be his saddle
level and compass, all made by him self: also
his lamp. stove. cooking utensils, &c, ana
number OF other articles
A fac-simile OF Suffers fort ten by ten
feet In size ana constructed of concrete will
also be given place in the camp, ana with
In this Will be displayed a number of Suffer
relics, including a boot With a wooden sole
once worn by the doughty general: also a
pair OF his spurs: a picture the frame OF
which was gided by himself; also the saw
which cut the first boards ever sawn In Cal
Norma and which were used in building Sut-
ter's mill. His cannon, first rired in I,aIifor-
MIA in the year 1S4S. will also be exhibited
Among other curiosities or the camp will
be the stage coach In which Hank Monk
drove Horace Greeley on the latter's memoir
able ride over the mountains. All the relics
Will be authenticated. also. by certificates
establishing their genuineness beyond the
possibility Of a doubt.
During the continuance OF the fair all the
old-time operations of Rining life will be
faithfully represented day after day. and
besides an illustration OF everything apper-
tanning TO mining ana cleaning gold the
sports and pastimes of the miners will be
shown. Long pouches filled with gold dust
and nuggets-brass filings and scraps-wiu
De flung recklessly on the faro table as of
yore, and among the old-timers who will
thus live over again the days OF old the
days of gold and the days or '4y' will be
that famous Meadow lake miner ana pros
pector. John Clarke. A magnificent figure
OF man, over six feet high ana Weighing
go pounds, he will be an attraction In HIM
self, merely to look at, but added to this no
one will be better able 10 show Just how the
forty-niners worked the shovel, the pan ana
the rocker. and between times .buckcd
faro" for all they were worth