The morning call., 1893-03-05

thought it would be the right thing 10 buy
Quartz Mountain and they would all soon
become Monte Crist0s.
To grow wealthy is the dream of all
people not philosophers; these good Mar
bonnes are not philosophers, so they organ
ICED q syndicate and bought Quartz MUM
tain. framed set of bylaws aud elected
full CORPS OF officers. including president,
superintendent, assayer and directors, al
lowed the president and superintendent
each a secretary and guaranteed each Off
Ger his salary for six years.
They Lied articles OF incorporation In
France and in California and promptly sent
their officers out here to commence opera
tinns--that Is TO grind the mill and turn out
the gold. But these people had never been
accustomed TO privations of any kind, SO
first OF all they laid out this little village as
you see; this, my house. is the boarding
house Tor the miners, where | can seat over
100 comfortably al one time. Opposite is
the store; on either side Ofst are residences
for superintendent and aSJayer and club
house; at the head of the square are the
hotel and postofhce, which were in charge
of MY husband. All Of these houses are
elegantly furnished with the finest that
could be purchased In San Francisco for
money. as you will see when ] show you.
Then they built two great Quarizmills,
one OF sixty stamps, one OF ten stamps,
which have never been used, and by the
time the village was built and ready for its
Inhabitants, over half million dollars had
been spent. and not a bit Of mining done.
Now came the officers, families and the
corps OF wOrkmen. During their long
journey from home to this foreign land
they had known no homesickness. for they
were full OF hope and excitement. and when
their coaches rolled in at last and they saw
the name OF the new town "NarbOnne" over
the hotel their delight knew no bounds.
We had to change it to "Narbo" as you
see. because the farmers always would
pronounce it so.
and they were busy and profitable times
with us, for although not one sou was taken
out, the guaranteed wages and salaries
came duly from France. Soon came time
when work had TO stop for lack of water TO
run the mills. Plans were drawn and
estimates made for fumes from the San
joaquin of the Sierras, but it was difficult
to make the quiet people at home realize the
entire dependence OF the work on a vast
body OF water to run these vast mills which
were to grind out piles of gold. They knew
only OF spending, not OF making money in
any line, SO the secretaries wrote, and
VTOte In vain a long time, till finally it
dawned upon their comprehension that
water Is as necessary for a thirsty quartz
mill as for school of live fish, and thew
agreed to put up $4,000. but not one cent
more. This $4,000 was spent-you can
see traces of 1t throughout the mountains in
bitches, tunnels and flumes-but it stopped
short; few miles more OF hume, less than
100000 mors OF money, and the mines
would have been an assured success; but
already many of the company were broken
in purse, and all Of them broken in spirits.
The works we're closed and the miners
scattered day by day until none were left.
The postOf1ice was discontinued and the
stages came no more, and gradually the
officers left for the city or for France until
all were gone bnt US who we're left in char ge
of the place. 1t was an abrupt and not
pleasant change from the coming of a daily
stage, the roll OF carriages filled with guests
and the gayetY and mirth of luxurious
mining camp TO this continuous mountain
stiffness.
Now come. if you are rested, and we Will
take look at the presidents house, which
attracts the curiosity OF everybody. You
call il glittering landmark 1t should be- /;
II is the monument OF buried private for
tune. Mr. Faehe put $4,000 of his own
money into it Look at this kitchen, per-
feet IN every detail, the appointments equal
10 any gentieman's house in the land. Here
is the range, which a shiyering kitten
crawled into one night when the oven door
was open and roasted to death in the morn
ing before the cook discovered IL. Here is
the room where the shivering cook closed
all his windows and doors one night and
built charcoal fire to keep him warm and
was found dead ia the morning from IN hal
ing the fumes OF the charcoal. Even the
kitchen has had its tragedies as well as
comedies.
AS for the house. which would require a
corps Of well-trained servants to run il
properly. Each room on each side of thu
spacious hall, upstairs and down, could tell
its own story Of mlrth petrified into sad
ness and sorrow; sadness and sorrow
deeper than that of the miners, for they
could work elsewhere and be quite as well
off IN their purse us If they were a. home In
Franco Pre- SitADt Eacba of
will gave uD all claims to his salary and en-
tered Jean Saulrier X Co.'S wholesale firm
of San Francisco as boobkeeper. After
ward he was offered the agency Of a bank
| in Peru, and has finally accepted a still
| better and greater position in Paris. His
| son, Marcelinp, rather given TO seeing the
| world in wild way-for a while pedd ling
| tanaies on the streets OF Fresno 10 do it
| Willis now an officer in the French army
| In Algiers and the family Is once more on
the road to prosperity, il not to the larger
wealth they once enjoyed. 1t was hard at
| the presidents time OF life to be thrown
out upon the world. but he has fought a
battle with it aud won.
As for the blasted hopes Of wealth for all,
high and low. who can measure them
Marriage engage ments entered into in
France IN view OF prospective dots were can
celed. You see the third cottage there ?
One OF its inmates, miners girl, became
almost frenzied with grief and rage because
fell upon them. Her father was employed
in another mine after these closed and was
injured for life by blast. He could never
work again, and 1t threw the burden of his
support until death and of two younger
children for years upon her. and the lover
rebelled. He said he could not afford to
marry a whole family. or course his love
was not very deep, and it hardened the girl,
who vowed she would never place faith in
man again, and should rear her sister to be
a man-bater.
And now the French company has sold at
last for a beggarly sum to the American
Biscuit Company Of San Francisco. They
may yet redeem it, but the end we look for
that is, the completion of the fumes and the
recommencement OF work-may be soon
we hope IT,.
You thought I should weary telling these
oft-told tales. Do l weary you, OF are you
still Interested?
Weary? Mol The tales belong TO the
spot; to the still, romantic hills, where
from the commanding eminence of the
presidents house you look out in the dis
tanee on clear day. and forty miles away
see the busy excitement and turmoil of life