Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-08-05 | Page 6 | Romances of Industry

, started off with pickaxes, mattocks and Pn to dig and wash out the glittering flakes from the alluvial deposit. de-posit. Wage shot up to th roof In Ban Francisco. Th town was deserted de-serted except by virtuoua women, old men and children. "Gone to the digging" dig-ging" waa th legend on many ft tradesman's plftc. office, a tor and horn. In th coura of a short time th adventurous and th gold-hungry from th world over were riding, tramping or sailing toward California. And eoon after that th steel rails were atarted on their way to span th ea.nnr - - - '-- R o m anccs of Industry By WINTHROP BIODLC 1 Copvrlrht. 12J (New Tor It ErenlnC World), bjr Pratt Hubtlahlns Co. HOW THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH BEGAN ' (r wu on t January day of IMt thkt a kkiunlll owner on tha weelern elope of the Sierra Nevadaa, In California, Cali-fornia, a man by the name of Mar-ahalL Mar-ahalL decided to make alterationk on hla eawmill on tha Americano, river, which flow. Into th Sacramento. Ha threw the mill wheel out of (ear and let tha whole arream Into the rack. Tha operation. In wldenlns the channel, carried a maea of aand and aravel alone Ita ruahlnr eourae. Marahall caaually aotlced a clear, transparent atone (lltterinc on one of tha epota laid bare by tha current. Then he aaw anothar, and another like It. Marahall waa In aoma doubt whether the flittering fragment were worth picking up to look at. Finally ha picked one up. v It aeemed to him that the glittering objecta ware thla ecalee of what appeared ap-peared to be pure gold. Marahall picked up a few mora of tha piece, which were lying all around, mounted hla horae and galloped gal-loped At breakneck apeed to hla nearby near-by neighbor. Captain eSutter. I "Gold." aaid Captain Sutter, and hla mental vlaton kkw a new epoch opening In tha hlatory of tha "golden Weet." Tha two men decided to keep their aee rat to Ihemeelvea and to aet immediately im-mediately about finding a kvaillng themeelve at once of the Eldorado. They rode back to the eawmill, poked about and atarted to klaa up the kituktion. But ka they wandered around proa-pacttng. proa-pacttng. they wer. cloaely watched by a Kentucklan, who auepected thkt komethlng waa up. Other laborer, ruehed up kfter the glittering flakee. An Indian who had worked In a gold mine In Lower California pronounced the flakee pur gold. I In a few aoure tha newa waa carried car-ried to San Franclkco, and the town waa aoeei practically deeerted for the "placer.. And th. world rueh for California waa on. . Laborer lawyara, .hoekeepera