The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-23

10 ~ WWnsnou ~ Ihe gold out OF the sand and
inan.of.war n San. Francisco Bay when the
Joined tho stampede Of men to CoiomSs. "N -
Anon the men digging and panning gold
s S!SoF y .a' sour APS snS mad Si wss j tsSn fR %. % Snly SaS
elmseI-the diseoverer of gold. He went about
m mcm cam to camp tuning and warning the
their ,gold. By legal process. lie Claimed the
legal right TO ali the gold in that locality, and
TIL the United States laws drove out the tres.
passerS and restored the property to Sutter
attention to Marshall Eu' The fne M MppmDni re psaa Gas
Marshairs rights, and they. used to deal out to
mn NJ and suffer part of their nuggets and dust
I've San Franciscans reached the diggings
at daybreak on May 20. 1s4s. Tired and hun
mining. dozen men were already up, and,
arnsel and h ssss,. Were ,t6 psSPn ans,,b sSld fE SnS
in all my long NE: We went down and looked
hours we had learned how to mine gold in that
crude way. We ate breakfast there and start
Can you tell us whero we can 20 and wash
out gold, toof we asked,
oh, take your shovols and pans and expert
one is ahead Of you. A blind man can get gold
here here The ssndbars and gravel are just lousy
we went about half q mile down the river,
passing dozens of miners all at work in the
o51li9uely across the river; we started our frst
evory Dan. We dug = down f GSe ' feet into GSsof the /
SSnrsS srsvsl; There we got gold that ran
that rate an industrious man could easily pan
ten ounces Of the yellow metal there in a day;
and riehSs sfe dlRsi m Sn fu Pa5sT d a6Snshs f fhsy S %snt
didP a sns r % g mile arsy ana w. sure wor enough "Sd,;t they
abandon our claim on the first sandbSr. but
the crowds Of belated and excited gold seekers
from San a Francisco and tha: region began to
cided to stay where we were
THE very richest dirt I personally ever
the stanislaus River In September. 1913. A
party OF five Swedes took out with rockers
there thirty ty pounds Of gold, av9nirdaPsois IL six
$1,000. That yielded each swede about 1856
ner struck a marvellous streak Of rich gravel
about fifteen feet below the SURFACE. while
IN To tsa s1% on FTeo of Isas Bend Bend in mt The Son Tuo oHMn9s
of gold in two days, and, altogether in the
course o s,, Of several months Of hard work there,
were about the very first men in the new dig
gings, located on the north fork of tho Ameri:
att the s'r rate Of s Ss.so s a pan 1ns for Soars out at a s timei
The Mormons were secretiye follows, but 1 had
Il on good authority that they cleared up oyer
well, the Prohibition candidate for President in
1s92, and a party Of several Indians got out
er River IN" in the sum sumner M pn Of T Isas. On The ffe f best /
ever did In any one day was in the same sum
mer, 4 partner and l were operating a rocker
Of gravel about two feet thick. just above bed
rock and twelve feet below surface. We got
for two weeks Unfortunately our our claim I pe-
tered out quickly after that, The man
Meo Ssa claim aa ars sajo OF 500 m snT,r had fae better 1T 5, l4o *
work in, and, between September. ls4s. and
May, 1s49, he got out $50 pounds Of gold.
came walking down the American River. look
ing, for q new location for a claim. He stopped
friends while they rocked out gold at Indian
bar, five miles south of Coloma. The men were
in q Y very rich streak Just then.
just sixty minutes. said the sailor to the men.
in a t mO%ent the Sailor sIih ri SRpG % his sn eoa m.n and.
getting d9wn beside the rocket he went to
s show sdihi in dirt tie saiior o pa,.s IL the in appal
satps Rent TIE hsb % on fSs t st9Sd b. y. watches watch ISL in . hand rand.
thhe' owners ee Called m a PROMPT pt halt s ltn h I Believe nns Se
s sfss a0H That ay Ss DaV %ertS 81 a sS5a y s sa3 In ts s,Ssy d %ys.
How's that for one hours miningi
who h ssT BEEN aa oo at work Gn se ssndia Sa a y %ish a nam nam
and shovel on a bar in the Tuofumne River.
He had q bandanna handkerchief full amost to
That young mar was murdered a week later at
his lonely. claim. and it was the first crime we
knew in the mining region.
But of all the fortunes made in getting gold
from the placers In the river beds and banks by
primitiye mining processes. that made by tho
most signal. They were Weisbmen and were
laborers on q cow ranch at San jose when
were the first to mine at Readings Bar in Clear
Greek. and they stayed right there on the three
S Slsdi% Washed TaiG out ee eSery sp eos Of an Solda T Ths1 W sh9s
hard working men, were never allured away by
stories of richer prospects elsewhere, and they
summer Of is4s to the fall of is5o they did
nothing but get eold, and save it: They had on
when they quit the mines in 1851 q common
fund amounting to about $215,O00. With
this capital they, went into growing grain and
million dollars when he died.,
did you know Capt. s~utterf".
thousands OF restless. eager men who poured
into that region, along, the American River and
became suddenly rich the picture Of Capt.
standing sadly, IS I observed him one Sunday,
chopped down by irresponsible, reckless miners
to get fuel for their camp fires. Sutter lost all
abandon all his plans for a lifetime when gold
had been found on his property: His remark
when Marshall showed him the first gold mug
gets, that the stuff would be their curse, was
At tina time California was In the
stage between the old Mexican re-
and the new American order. There
were no civil laws and no peace officers in
this region. The Captain was without means to
protect his rights. He was simply overrun by a
vast army of men. When the State of Cali
fornia was organized Cutter formally applied
for a patent to the thirty-three square leagues
OF land that had been promised him by the
American authorities previous to the gold dis
covery for his military services in. ls45.l6.
application, however, was denied In 1880.
Thereafter Suffer spent all his remaining for
tune in carrying tho case to the United States
Supreme Court, whore he was finally defeated.
Capt. Suffer told me in 1858 that SIS. 600, 900 in
gold had been taken from the thirty.three
square leagues of land which would have been
his sole property II the gold discovery bad been
DELAYED but q few months"