The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-22
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TOOAY-"Modern Forty-Niners' still
 trek to California, usually by fIiv- yer nowadays, camping en route and
 continuing to live in the open after l they get there, writes William G.
 Gayce, Los Angeles correspondent. LOS ANGELES, March 22. - The spirit of the Days of '49,", which made California famous and which was i'm mortalized by California, has not been lost since the gold-rushing days to the West. It is evidenced in every place, large and small, in Southern California.
 AS striking example of the mod ern "forty-niner," travelling across the country on wheels, cooking his meals and sleeping wherever he might be. two mothers and their children were found in Lincoln Park here. The two families-one from Arizona and the other from Texas-assem- bled total If persons. The families are neighbors in the park, and on rainy days the children all gather in tiny and crudely constructed house. It fairly bulges with it's human con- tents.
 The house was built principally of parts of old movie "sets" used on ln,N Nt >io J~%, It measures approximately 12 by fl feet and houses one family of seven members, while the other family, ex- cept in bad weather, lives in it's tents. The "dads" of the two families earn their livelihood by picking up odd jobs here and there.
 One of the families, by the name of Lawson, comes from Dallas, Texas, while the other, named Jones, halls from Globe, Arizona. There are five children in each family.
 Work in the small Arizona mining town where the Joneses lived was slow, so they drove over in the fam fly flivver, which plays the role of 9 hostile fort, ship at sea, or prai- rie schooner attacked by Indians for the children and makes part of the clothes line when Mrs. Jones does the family laundry.
 Just across the way from the Jones and Lawton families are Jake Polo and his wife and their little daughter, | Martha, basking in the Southern Cali | fornia sunshine, after some cold weather in their home town of Fred ericks, North Dakota.
 A casual stroll through the park and one gets a fair idea of how mary people still come Overland" to Cali fornia and still camp out in the open after their arrival as they did while en route There are about 700 in the auto camp here now. From the li- cense plates, the Middle West States have done their share in sending i'm migrants to California, particu- larly the States of Oklahoma, the Da- kotas, Colorado and northern Michi- gan are well represented. The New England states also furnish a good quota to the tent city"
 True, for some, with large families and not much ready cash, the trip to Sunny Southern California" is not
 made without sacrifice and making every cent go as far as possible.
 But, as one remarked, it is the goal that pushes them on and away from parts of the country where industry and trade have been more or less throttled.
 The camp in Lincoln Park is one of hundreds throughout Southern Cali fornia. Even the smallest hamlet boasts of it's Auto Camp Ground" Large signposts along every high way leading into cities and towns chronicle to the tourist about the pub l lie camping ground, with minute di- rection of how it can be reached. l It is the camp life in the open that | lays the foundation for the fortune of l tbe modern ''fOrtv-njnarS