Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-01-30
no GOLDEN WEST
Adventurous Spirits of the Word
Turned in 49.
Lives and Souls Counted for Little in
the Frantic Rush for the Yellow
Meta - Thousands Died
en- Route.

ID,
California gold was made in the
United States mint by David Carter.
What / date! Gold had been dis
covered lin California, and the earth
trembledSnder the march westward.
Aroundl the days of 40 in the
Golden = e on the blue Pacific, says
the Kans City Journal, an American
playwright constructed a drama OF
telling pbwer, 1.-THE Girl of the Golden
West" lit is a picture of the rough
and terkible days Of that frantic epoch.
where gen lost their souls and their
livea the pursuig of the yellow
met Alifornia was admitted as
sta pthe Union in 1850. In ~,
W grants arrived in California
r. by way of the isthmus of
n a little pioneer fort OF
ler's. formerly an officer Of the
ard of Charles \ of France,
announcement was made that
world in 1913, and produced
unparalleled excitement.
part of the globe came the
LArs, from Chile, Peru. from
alle hthay from the Sandwich
islands, Nom England, France and
Russia. SAYS Capt. Sutter of that
ehporning in 1913: Il was
s. ling in myStiny fort when Mr.. Mar
shslN, who was digging a mill race at
|ColdNha. on the American river, burst
into my presence. He was white as
ashes and greatly excited. | glanced
at my rifle to see if it was in its place,
for in those days we lived III perpetual
expectation of attack from Indians.
No! Marshall flung on the table a
handful of scales of pure virgin gold
] was thunderStruck. He explained
how be had found 1t salong the left
bank of the stream"
A pioneer tells the story of the fear
full gold-dust fever. 1.-TWO years after
the discovery of gold on the American
river by Marshall |, like thousands OF
others, got the gold fever, and got ii
bad To this land of gold promise
came the bravest and best men of the
older states. They were the daring
spirits of the old home, who, ill-content
to vegetate amid the scenes of their
birth, took heart of hope, and through
weeks and months of peril and ia
tigue toiled across the waterless and
savage-peopled wastes to the land afar.
They lit their campfires of buffalo
chips and sagebrush and tossed in un-
easy dreams at night with their guns
for pillows. The reveille that woke
Them was often the crack of rifles in
the hands of the savages. For days,
weeks and months they thirsted and
hungered amid the alkali deserts AND
the rocky canyons, and when they
reached the land of promise there was
little left them but their splendid
manhood. brains and Drawn.
"The prairie schooners from Mis-
souri, and Arkansas, drawn principally
by oxen or mules. formed continuous
line of march by every route leading to
the south pass of the Rocky noun
tainsg
1.-THE late Dr. Stillman, who con-
Quoted a hospital at Sacramento in
40 and 80, estimated that, in seeking
the golden fleece in less than one
year 10000 young men who had start
ed with cheers and song were sleeping
beneath the wild flowers"
During the year 184S $10,OO0OOO in
gold was extracted from the mines.
principally from the Yuba. Feather
and the American rivers, ard from the
gulches connected herewith; the rock
err the shovel, the prospecting pan and
the crevice knife being the only ma
chinery employed. Over S4O,OOo,Ooo
was obtained in 40. From 1913 to
1870 81 .OOO, 100000 was the gold output
of the state of California. Through
out the first three years of the min
ing excitement every article OF trade
had to be imported.
Isl compre orc aqui" (gold dust
bought here) should be the Legend OF
California