Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-01-24
CALIFORNIA f1c SKRUp co.
SAY FRANCISCO, Cal.
LOUISVILLE. kE new YoRk HE

lous gold-seekers, who did not hest
tate TO tear the mill down for the
lumbe and who killed and ate the,
81 OK belonging To IL. For six years,
foll lwihg 1870, the state California
paid him snail pension. but left him
TO spend the last days Of his life i'm
poverty and neglect.
He died in 1885 while alone in a
Ium ble-dOwn cabin which he occupied
With another aged and indignent pio-
neer miner. He was buried at COL
! oma, IN sight Of the spot where he dis
covered the gold, and his figure, in
heroic bronze. stands oyer his grave.
Nor was the after-career Of Sutter
hardly less hopeless than that of
MARSHALL. His grave is in the burial
ground or the MormOns at Letitz,
pennsylvania. The inscription 90
MS grave-stone says that he died on
June Is, 1850. A long, sad story lies
between that date and the time whan
he was master OF New Helvetia, and
CalifOrnia's foremost citizen. The
rushing tide Of gold-hunters over
whelmed his little colony and wiped
out his imperfect title to the land
"hlch mad been granted him by Mex |
leo.
Sutter made a brave fight and a
long one, He laid claim to thirty |
square legues OF land, including that |
on which the cities of Sacramento and |
Marysyille now stands. After long
delay the commissioners Of public
lands allowed the claim, and after
more delay the supreme court Of the
Ghiled States reversed the I
decision. Then Sutter carried
MS claim before congress. to
go through the tedious ex-
perlence OF most people who take
clallns there. He was still prosecut-
ny ~ IN 1871, when he happened to
vlslt Lltltz TO drink the wholesome
waters OF its spring. The luiet
Of the place ana the peaceful
lie OF It's people appealed TO the rest
less old man, VINO was beginning TO
lire OF his long battle, and he made
lls home there until get my claim
as he said. He was at WASH
ngt"n, still getting his claim through,
Nhen ne died, in 1880, aud was ,
brought back TO Litltz 10 be buried,
us MoraYlan neighbors making room
or him 10 the corner OF their ceme-
cry
The troubles of individuals, how
ver, are matters OF slight moment {
when weighed against the far-reach.
ng euectS OF an event so potential as T
ne discovery OF California. Before /
he close OF 1919 that discovery added /
OO,OOV young, intelligent aud strong I
len To the population OF California,
lakIng her, ere the decade ended, a
nightly factor in the commerce and
Industry OF the world. 1t startled the
JTeamS with the hiss OF steam, built
hundred thriving cities, opened
d. 70. l..
he blue SierraS; within eight years il
roke With the whistle of the foco-
lotiye the quiet OF the spot on which
utter had built his fort for safety.
nd within score OF years iU brought
yer track OF iron trains from that
asst, which the venturesOme German
id turned away from and never
oked back toward until he had
aced 1000 miles OF wilderness be- ,
yeen him and II.
Moreover, the effects of Marshall's
nd were not limited 20 our conti-
'nt. All the countries OF South
merlca were shaken by II, and so
ere Europe aud Asia. 1t brought
Ie Chinese TO America, opened japan
tratiic, threw belt OF steam
ound the globe, built the Panama
llrnad, iiecked the waters of the
lcl nc with a thousand rich argosies, ]
ID last, and most important OF ali,
nj American miners TO locate and q
en- up the gold deposits OF Australia, 81
The discovery made 10y Marshall in al
c mill-race at COloma is, and will pl
main, one OF the great landmarks In dc
e worlds history, and the people OF SO
do we'll To celebrate with sp
coming pride aud ceremony the on
lieth anniversary of that event al
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