| Show m Mormon Battalion for Big Gold Rush of f 1849 hERE Is IR much yet CI to be tIP writ written written written T ten before heCor credit Is tully fully tull given to the tho work of oC those thos who car cor d the Mormon westward and went Into the general Held field of or plO pio pioneering people of oC 10 Los Angeles aro uro not notI yet I to admit that it II was a ti band of oC SOO roo 00 Mormons Mormon who raised the 11 American Mag over OCl their city elt on July Jul JulI I IsK I HI i no so they the have Ino Invented a lie fic fiction tion that i was Gen Fremont who took the tile country from Mexico The Tho people or of Stockton lire are not anxious to admit that the city first settlers were Mormons from the ship Brook Drook Brooklyn lyn which wits as tho the first American vessel to land passengers In hi San Pan Fran Francisco cisco harbor no so this thui chapter oC of west western cnn ern history noseS TI to await the time timo when whoa prejudice Is less forceful and equity In bestowing credit Is more ablo able lo to assert Itself I SOME I OnGO lEN HISTORY It Is already well known however that Hint the Mormons settled Sun San Del Ber Bernardino nardino but hul the names they tile gave gae tile the streets were changed ell In an all effort to wipe WillO out fill all trace or of their irly rl set Bet settlement whet when new lIew corners comers found f nl 1 shel shet shelter ter tom In mi their abandoned homes after II Cle I Ithe they the returned to Utah In 1857 to lo stand st together with their fellow rellow against a n prospective armed almed Invasion Just what the tile Mormon battalion boys did In iii California after their dis discharge charge has baa not yet yel been bean fully rully record recorded r Cord Corded ed Thele ore are hou however er geographical names In Ill California that suggest their migrations There Is Mormon bridge over Oer the Sacramento Mormon ridge n Monterey and a II story In San Francisco that the tile first American of ot the where Oakland now noli lands was a aman amil man luau mil n who ho professed with a II 1 view Ie of or using it Instead of oC giving his hili devotion to It Thin The story Is I that ho bought the site from rota the for fot secured from the thu gold first mined by b Mormon battalion boys hoys at nt atthe attilo the tilo Sutter Suiter mill site and sold gold It II In town lots loin to the people who rushed thither lIfter tho thio th gold Jolet excitement be began beIlIn gan IlIn In earnest Th The fl fortune ho homade homade homade made on nit the transaction lie he dissipated In fast living and drank him himself self to In imi San Francisco In 1876 This unfortunate ending for a it man who had hud an uini to make malce his name one of ot the most moitt brilliant In his historical In ill Pacific slope elope history has hus rather clouded the facts about him hIm and 1111 lIla his hl California work that aro are worthy of oC permanent record DISCOVERY RY OP Olo GOM GOIn One of ot these thosa Is tho establishment c of or tile the coast coaRt newspaper and ond another Is IB tho tim discovery of or gold Rolet In uI California the news of ot which discovery cry ery first found print prinO In paper Young Youn was ivan responsible for tor forthe the tho fact that Mormons discovered gold goldIn In lit that he lie sent messengers to the tile bat battalion boys telling t those of them who were not of oC family to stay In ill California trough through U 11 tho the winter of or 1847 and 1848 for tor the provisions In tho the Salt Snit Lake valley were scant and ho Ihl feared they would starve Ir if they caine heri herh This diverted many of them along the tha Sierras In tel d dor of or eastward to 10 Utah IIo was WM also alBa responsible for Cor tho the presence of or Bran Dron Brannan nan and tho the ship Brooklyn on thin the coast eon t for Cor lie hIs had dispatched It In iii to land laIn ltd ft party pant and have havo them pre prepare pare n home hOino for the tho overland settlers to come como to when they should reach rench a u haven halen ot of rest STORY STOny OF SUJ MILL About 40 of lit tile the men who had been discharged erl from fromn tho the battalion In Los 10 Angeles nIter alter marching overland In train from Fort Leavenworth to San Diego und and making makinI their headquarters for tor a II time at al Los Ios Angeles went to work for Capt John A Sutter Butter who was wall er em erecting eJecting a n Haw shw and mill at Sut But Butters tens fort Cort A site sito pi to for or a Hour mill was selected near the tho fort lort mid end all 1111 hut but six Ix ot or tho the men were put to work upon It These six ivero sent senit up lip Into tho timO mount mountains ains In tho tine little volley valley ot or Colma Coima with four roul other men niemi ono one of or whom was wIts James W V Marshall a L partner of or Sut Sui tors The names ot or tho the Mormon Momon bat battalion tallon members wore were w r Alexander I Stephens James S Brown James Jomes Ear Bar gem gel William Johnson Azariah Smith and Henry Heury W fligler The Die other othi three J men wore irene affiliates of the battalion boys who wIlli had formerly Joined their Church Icon for four Cour months these theno men labored on urn n If ho tho saw POW mill and on Jan 21 31 16 1848 tho the water walor was IM turned Into Inlo the race to chonia it Il t out When It WItH wan turned out Mr MI Marshall Marshal who was tho thIe job lob walked along the th race to ac so see what tho the flow lIow ot or water hail had done don to 1 ho the newly dug du banks Ills eyo e o caught I i somo orno yellow Illow particles In the gravel r which consisted of or rotting granite and lIe he 10 picked them up Time Tho largest were Vero it the tho size eize of ot wheat grains und find ho i showed to Henry W IV ier Wile who ho afterwards lived for tor many years year at nt 11 j Bt SL George Utah wrote In Iii hi his hIli diary of ot Jan 21 1 day d Y some soma kind i of was wati au found 1 In the tho th tall lull race raco Unit looks lIke hIke gold Another nother A entry nn no the Iho Ii nay aYR that our nul metal has been heen il analyzed 1 and proved to tn bo ho gold It H Is III 3 thought to bo lie rich Wo We have picked UI till ip moro moore than a r hundred dollars worth Ii I during tho the past wool wook fr HUSH TRAIL This wan tyna tho beginning taper published the thu nowa nOI 8 Gradually It and tho limo grout great gold rush music to California following along time the trail of o othe ho the Mormon Into Inlo Utah wax was wn PUt nit on 00 Us its why way WU to nn ami n ft ot of the tha Mormon loader who salt said that ho ha to live Ilvo In ohio i o tho the country looked KO so deeo late nto ho lie thought no other would osor covet It |
