Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-30


n,..l. dollars has beon subscribed for the
work Of setting up along the river in.
''''' front of Sacramento replica of the
Sacramento>- OF 1s43, of building on
- -lt twenty acres near the business CEN.
ter a reproduction CT "Hangtown." now
known as PlacetTillo where gold was
sl9lf.s first discovered in California, and OF
Q '1' erecting an exact copy of Suffers Fcrt'
around which centcred. for more than
I,ft q decade, the life OF the Argonauts In
az ,.t, California.
Just Like Old Times.
, ,ntas Descendants and other relatives of
the early gold seekers have contribut-
- ed relics and mementoes of those days
to the number of nearly eleven thou
( iIh sand separate pieces. A committee OF
Y tfFl one thousand has been named from
Sacramento. stockton. PlacerviRe. San
Francisco and their gold rush settles
o,,,,,. ments and is at work planning the daily
'''iile pageant The exact life, with the ex-
- ception OF all forms of liquor, will be
reproduced as 1t was in 1S49 and 1850.
.-t.x There will be mountain and mine,
haA showing all forms OF producing and
working gold, from the primitive pan
sluice box, and cradle. to the most
- modern stamp mill and cyanide pro-
80 -" cess Rurros will carry ore alongside
the modern caterpillar tractor, and the
n .fd actual gold will be produced from ores
u - brought in large quantities from sur
rounding mines.
1o' bfrf Women of Sacramento to the num-
ber OF twenty-five hundred have
agreed to wear the costumes OF lS4s
~. throughout the six days of the ceie-
=" bration. Then men will appear in the
- Nred fannel shirts, corduroy and khaki
trousers and high boots of the miners
and prospectors of seventy years ago.
rsu uqThe buildings win be Of real logs built
= = - just as they were in the old mining
AIHHcamps, according to the daguerreo-
types made in those days. These build
ings will reproduce the famous hotels,
stores, stage stations and offices OF
the Viglantes from. "Slung Guich'
Dutch Flat" "You Bet "Chinese
Bend" and others as well as Placer,
vile. Relics of the days of '4s from
.h's''' the mountains of Amador. Eldorado,
rsdi h' Placer Neveda and other mining coun-
""9'' ties have been gathered to ornament
III u'"' the interiors of these structures.
:oS aJ'5f..
an Indians Take Part. 4
.,.5, -. Indians from the Sioux reservation
in Nevada and from klamath Lake
reservation in California and oregon
will live in their tepees and brush
jachals just outside the reproduced
3, - settlements. The landing OF Capt. John
LA - Sutter, and the founding of the fort will
Az Hbe enacted one day of the pageant.
Captain Sutter will come up the river
,---.-----in his hand made boat, and Will nave
,oana a, sham skirmish with real Indians.
These elwill disperse as he did on his
arrival there three quarters of cen
y tury ago. and then will proceed to the
fort. The arrival and departure of 81
horse stages, hold up Of such
stage, the arrival and departure of the
pony express anc %sffnilar events of life
at the fort will he enacted every day
9IiF In other words, for six days Sacra-
mento or that part Of it which has
part in the pageant, will live as nearly.
as possible the life lived by the Argo-
- =, neuts amid surroundings made very
~ 81 nearly like those of the 40s. Historic
X street, the first trail leading through
- Sacramento, along both sides Of which
th, city was founded, is being con-
:....:..:... verted into q mining camp, by means
of false fronts on all buildings. The
1N hotels are preparing TO install stages
~ drawn by 6 and 8-muc teams for the
six days in place of the motor busses
now used.
I" =. one O1 tne nuiA0rous oi. p'epa, mro nnn -
dred business men of Sacramento COM
'r menced raising boards March II.
These two hundred will be the bearded
miners and prospectors of the pageant.
Sham Battles and Rodeo.
'.''Abi There will be daily sham battle be-
tween whole tribes of Indians and par
ties of miners or lone prospectors and
raiding bands of Indians mounted on
40 '' ponies Of the same kind as those used
..,.- by the Indians in the early days of the
West Oxen have been broken to the
yoke and burros brought in from the
,Cy. desert A rodeo and "Wld West
-. - show will be held ct the fair grounds
at the end of the pageant. The inau-
gural ball for Governor Burnett, first
executive of California, will be re-en-
''' " acted one evening Of the pageant, and
the few remaining veterans of the Sut-
ter Rifles. the first military organZa-
tion of the state after American occu-
""'' baton, are being collected by j. j.
Borree, adjutant general of the state.
Augmented by service men of the re-
cent war, the Sutter Rifles will hold
daily drills with the weapons of ~ in
the compound Of Fort Sutter. APP
pl oximatc!y 5000 school children, both
boys and girls. will dance daily in cos
,,,,l,, Z tha off