The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-07
A ..FoRTY-NINER,, CAMP.
Interesting Reproduction for the
California Fair

According to indications, the forty
miner camp for which Major Frank
Mclaughlin, Senator George G. Per-
kins, John l. Sabin and Senator Foley
of Nevada obtained the concession will
prove an even more interesting feature
of the fair than was at first anticipat-
ed. Eugene Hahn, who has just re-
turned to town after a. tour through
the interior, made in the interests of
the project, reports that the collection
of old-time relics and curiosities will be
far more extensive than it was origin
ally believed could be brought together
A special feature will be number OF
the mining cabins occupied in old days
by distinguished Pacific coasters, not
copies, be it understood, but the origi-
nal structures, which have been taken
apart and will be transported to this
city and regretted at the fair. Senator
Perkins old cabin at Thompson's Flat
in which in old days he lived and slept
and cooked his flapjacks and beans, is
one of those which is to come here
Senator Fairs is another and John
Mackay's is still third An earnest
effort was also made to obtain the
Coloma cabin of James w. Marshall
the original discoverer of gold, but the
state owns it, and permission to re-
move it could not be obtained. AS the
next best thing, however, fac-simile
of the structure will be erected, and
within it will be exhibited any number
of actual relics Of the dead and gone
discoverer. Among these will be his
saddle. level and compass, all made by
himself; also his lamp, stove, cooking
utensils, ETC., and a number of other
articles.
A fac-simile of Suffers fort, 19x1O
feet in size and constructed of con-
crete, will also be given a place in the
camp, and within this will be displayed
a number of Suffer relics. including
boot with a wooden sole once worn by
the doughty general; also a, pair of his
spurs; a picture, the frame of which
was gilded by himself; also the saw
which cut the first boards ever sawn
in California and which were used in
building Suffers mill His cannon,
first fired in California in the year
1913, will also be exhibited. Among
other curiosities of 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 genuine
ness beyond the possibility of a doubt.
During the continuance of the fair
all the old-time operations of mining
life will be faithfully represented day
after day, and besides an illustration
of everything appertaining to mining
and cleaning gold, the sports and pas
times Of the miners will be shown.
Long pouches filed with gold dust and
nuggets-brass filings and scraps-will
be 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
of 49, will be the famous Meadow
lake miner and prospector. John
Clarke. a magnificent figure of a man,
over six feet high and weighing $50
pounds, he will be an attraction in
himself, merely to look at, but added
to this no one will be better able to
show just how the foIty-niners worked
the shovel, the pan and the rocker, and
between times "bucked faro for all
they were worth.-San Francisco
Chronicle.