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Show MJFORNIA GOLD DISCOVERY ! IREDITED TO A MORMON 3 : An increased yield of first-grade apples has been aided by an 8'x8' rubber mat, developed by a rubber manufacturer. i Made of sponge-like rubber, the mats have caught thousands of apples knocked down by the jostling jost-ling of ladders and pickers' hands. One hundred years ago this onth, a Mormon bearing the ime of H. W. Bigler and a mem-, mem-, r of the now famous Mormon ittalion recorded the discovery gold at Sutter's Mill, northern lifornia. i fortnight" magazine, publish-t publish-t on the coast, gives Bigler's t as follows: Monday, Jan. 24. This day some ; 1 of mettle was found in the ' race that looks like goald, . discovered by James Mar-f Mar-f ; 1, the Boss of the Mill. 'Sunday 30 clear and has been 'the last week our metal has i tride and proves to be goald s thought to be rich we have , . up more than a hundred dol-woth dol-woth last week.'' le magazine continues to say: 'his Mormon millhand's un-nmatical un-nmatical scrawling is still the f proof of the day gold was )vered at Co'oma, even better H the word of Sutter's mill boss i elf, who thought the day was r 19. but he kept no diary. mndrn dav writer dpares I liscovery of gold in California ed the "greatest mass move-t move-t of oeonle smce the crusades." noints out that bv 1849. 17.000 sons had sailed for California le countless thousands of "prs came ovpr'and. Thus it is ''itpd out. California- inautrur-fl inautrur-fl its American career with a X'vn started hv a sa1' stout) Mormnn soldiers working at lor'i Mill. 5 Vha oif of Sutter's mill toav i. tho California Gmd Cpn-ininl Cpn-ininl CnVhrpHn will p-ot n rnal Wf wipt( 3fino cnpptatnrs will iwi inf0 t;nf fo Spo f10 dis pVprv of reenac(.R(j jn an '".Aerate Pageant. 2 |