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Show HE IS A SURVIVOR. Win. Jounstoa4, Who Was at tht California Cali-fornia Gold Dlscoitry, Still LltlDj. lie ilia llral I'nllrrinan In Harm. tnciiti,, mid n ulnl,le llsuie lu I'leiteer lttrte. (VrrftenJMM e Ut New a Hawaii, Valencia county, N. M., May SV ISDJ In jour laiuo if llu -od It at-yon ub,lhcd an account ot the dedication cf Huller'a Fort, which aa w ell gave the nanus of the lurvlvora of the gold discovery In California. Wm. Jolicaloti is not mentioned and rteina to have Kill loal Hack of, but la iuw living lulu, and though erlplod luouefeot, Isotherwlie well. llu was Ulicbargtd with other mem-tersof mem-tersof thu Mormon llittallou nt Ijm Angeles 011 July 10, 1SI7, aud starud totheUreatHalt I,iko Vullc), but returned re-turned niter reaching thu 1 luce where the Douuer com) any perlshud, becnute Frisldiiut Youug soadvlted.astupillrs were ahort In the valley. He returue I tuHutter'a Fort and hired oul to riutlcr to work for stock. Huon alter arriving there Marshall came down from the mill and Mutter sent Wm. Juhi.atou uplherr, where ho stsyed and holpej dlover the gold. Ho atayed at Col-oruaa Col-oruaa ihorltime af.ur thodlicovery, a hen he went to Murruon Itlaud to dig gold there. Durlug the fall ol 1943 llrother Johuaton camn to Ureal Halt fjike alley, nhcrohespeut Iho wlnlerand waa mar Me I In lhrerlngof 18 U. I.e. turning to California soon after he waa hired by Ham llraulian, the Kagle Theater and McDowell Co. to act aa night police ou J nnd Wont atrtetr, In Hacrannnto. Ilu waa the lint policeman police-man In that city. In lbif thla veteran waa living lu Hau llercardlno whuu that city was abandoned. He oame to Bait I.akeaud returned to California lu Ibill as an euitloyncf tho llultirlluld 03Riaiiy, hel Ing to move their mall itcck to Ihn Iiorthtrn nverland route, llu kr t Iho overland barn lu Halt Into Cliy for some time. W hen thu settlements on the Muddy creek, Nevada, were started he waa ngaln tut In the frontier, belug called tu stttlu there. When the loitltmente broke up llrother Johrwtou atayed 111 Ht. Urorge a while and thuu removed lo l.agle valley, iNevadn. He wolki-d two aud a half yearn In tit. Uuorge quarrying rock for the temple. Then he v. ent to Long valliy beeauao of bla wife's poor health. When the Balnta beran settling In Arlioim, Wm. Johnilon went to Moancppy, as he was called to do. When Hunaet was atttlcd he v. ent there and remained five year, aluly Strug, gllng, with many utheis, to make that settlement n success, lie stayed In Wood run to ratio ono crop, whetihe came to ltatuah where he haa shared lila portion of drought nnd hardships, aa ho haa done Willi thu Church aa a pioneer In Kativoo, California, Utah 'Dixie," Arlxoua nuu -New Mexico. "Well," said he In conversation with mi, "liter didn't have my name among them tho survivors, but Just let them knew I'm around yet. 1 was Jim Marshall's 'rlht howor,'asa gambit gam-bit r would lay, and slgued a certificate fjr htm when the Wllllaea tried to get avtay with tho dlacovery," lltipeclfillly yours, Uamui: II. Ciiojuv, J 11. |