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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH. UTAH When I Consider - I consider all the I own On the rich earth and on the WHEN r ocean lone, Treasures which none can steal away from me Tis then I feel how happy I should be. . I count my great possessions oer, Cloudland and woodland, mountain, pliff, and shore, Birds on the bough and the sweet song they sing Tis then I know Im richer than a king. And when Idle curiosity needs deflation. No Haggling Over : Such Trifling Amount Foreign Words It was. market day. Prices had been high, and the man leaning over the fence round the sale ring wag looking disconsolate. Suddenly a farmer rode up on an ancient horse. How much do you want for that bag o bones? asked the bystander, his interest awakening. Fifty dollars. Til give' you five. For a moment the farmer stared at the man in amazement. Young man, he said, I aint going to let a little matter of forty-fiv- e dollars stand between me and the sale of a .horse. The animals yours. Ad Kalendas Graecas. (L.) At the Greek Kalends, never (the Greeks having no Kalends). Bel esprit. (F.) A brilliant mind. Compos mentis, (L.) In possessions of ones faculties. De novo. (L.) Anew, afresh. Esprit de corps. (F.) Loyalty to ones comrades; the spirit of solidarity. improvvisa-tricImprovvisatore, (It.) An impromptu poet or poetess. Jeu desprit. (F.) A witticism. Mauvaise quart dheure. (F.) A bad quarter of an hour; an awkward or uncomfortable and Phrases u e. Parade at Angels Camp, California. by the National Geographic Society. Washington, D. Service. Prepared some gold seekers took their dizzy the real contribution of the TI HOLD they are not worth a millions, Rush to Californias destiny is dollar. That is what Daniel Gpld A Webster thought, of Califor- often overlooked. Think of the blacksmiths, carpenters, cowboys, farmnia, and other southwestern ers, lawyers, and teachers lands, when it was proposed that we who doctors, with the gold - huntirig came take them as indemnity after the horde. They cleared land, built war with Mexico. What sympa- towns and sent East for thy, he added, can there be be- wives, raisedroads, husky Sons of the tween the people of . . . California Golden West, and spread the raw and . . . the Eastern states . . .? canvas for this 1936 picture of north-er- ft Webster gave that opinion of CaliCalifornia at work. fornia in the senate only 88 years Few, comparatively, got rich in ago. the mines; that wasnt economic Today it is the wealthiest state production, anyway. They simply west of the Mississippi, and has found the gold, at first, and took it. some 8,158,000 people. One of them In time, mining settled down to a said to a visitor: It took my folks business of deep shafts, stamp 200 years to get to California. They mills, smelters, timbered tunnels, landed in Virginia about 1650, and roads, and towns. All this meant moved west with the frontier. My more food, machinery, lumber, father got here in the 1850s. amuseclothing, transportation, ments. To supply these, farms to Up in Humboldt county at a ball, for which men grow grow meat and grain developed; towns with factories, schools, and full beards, a sweet, bright-eye- d music halls grew up to take care of said:; dress must all be of My lady 130 years old. It was old when my mines, of farms, of each other. Law grew, too, from this pioneer mother brought it around the Horn, from Nova Scotia. Her men fought experience the doctrines of approgrizzly bears arid Klamath Indians, priation and use, the laws of mining, panned gold, and cut timber to build water rights, and grazing. Students schooners. Only once in 15 or 20 of jurisprudence say it is seldom years did they get down to San that the customs of a people have Francisco, and then by sea ; no rail- had their origin, development, and road reached northwest California final adoption by a legislature all within one lifetime, as came to pass till long after she was grown. here. was father Mariano My general Sutter Founded Sacramento. Vallejo, the last Mexican officer to John A. Sutter, Swiss adventurer, command this post, proudly as-- . serted Senora Luisa V,' Emparan of built a trading post on land given Sonoma. He was born at Monte- him by the Mexicans. That was rey. Here are his silver mounted the beginning of Sacramento, in saddle, his sword, spurs, and pis- 1839. It was a strategic location; tols. After America acquired Cali- soil was rich, the river afforded fornia he became a patriotic, influ- easy transport to San Francisco, and the new town was right in the ential citizen of the United States. Many Came From Foreign Lands. path of settlers coming from the through Emigrant Gap. Sure, In Napa county you see how East swift steps in the rise of that town French, Italian, and German grape epitomize the American conquest of growers form yet another racial this region. First Sutter fought the d of all peostrain. In 1880 Indians, then hired them to farm ple then here had come from for- his lands, run his cattle, and work eign lands, a fact which was pro- about his fort. foundly to influence the human and Kit Carson and John C. Fremont economic geography of this oldest came here for fresh horses. and largest of all Pacific Coast Into Sutters Fort (now Sacramenstates. in 1841, drove the first immito), Seek quiet country lanes that lead train to cross the grant to homes of both Plains. wagon From here men went, in native American and foreign stock, 1847, to rescue the Donner party, and you sense the social maturity snowed in and fighting starvation. of this complex yet mellow land. hired man, digging to Sutters Monterey was a seat of Spanish build a sawmill, found gold at culture before Washington, D. C., in 1848, and started the great was even surveyed. Russians had stampede. This lawless horde built Fort Ross, and were growing robbed and ruined he died wheat and trading counterfeit wam- poor. Others held Sutter; the fort, and pum for. otter skins before peace traded furiously. ended the War of 1812. California became a state in 1850. Ever since Hubert Howe Ban- That year more than 42,000 miners crofts painstaking researches, writ- swarmed through Sutters Fort, ers have told and retold the story of from the East. About it a wild and they still lawless town was growing, a town of early California make use of Bancrofts incompara- tents and rough boards, of saloons, ble source material, preserved now eating places, stores, and blackat the state university in Berkeley. smith shops; Most goods came first ' To see what the white man has to San Francisco by sea, and then done with work, tools, and science up the Sacramento river. in developing this region as it is State Almost Divided Once. now, consider the place where his Jumping from Monterey to San labors began. Ride through the Vallejo, and Benicia, the state Jose, Mother Lode country, where the got to Sacramento in 1854. capital firet pick marks on this now lush, a Many bitter battle has been fought opulent land were made by the gold at this capital, none more exciting seekers. Every hillside, gully, and than that which once almost divided stream bed shows the scars of California into two states. Only the shafts, tunnels, and frantic digging. diverting advent of the Civil war Ruined huts and half deserted prevented this. . Missouri came the Pony Exghost towns dot these gold fields From from which bearded men in press in I860.' Next spring riders shirts gouged nuggets and carried Lincolns inaugural address panned the yellow dust. Melancholy through from St. Joe in seven Columbia is adumbrative of all days and seventeen hours the fastthese darly camps. In its old Wells-Farg- est trip on record. Then a halfstagecoach office you see the ounce letter cost $5; one now is clumsy scales on which, records flown by overnight plane for six prove,1 more than $30,000,000 in gold cents. was weighed. In boom days 15,000 Building east from Sacramento in people lived and worked here; now 1869, the Central Pacific met the the village is shrunk to a bare 250. Union Pacific railroad, at PromonGhost Towns Are Numerous. tory Point, in Utah; Senator StanAll through Sierra foothills yoji ford drove a golden spike. Isolafind these fading towns, with such tion was ended. Men ; and goods names as Rough and Ready, Slug moved west at unheard of low at speed thought miraculous. Gulch, You Bet, and Grizzly Flats. rates, Sacramento railroad shops Placerville) Today long (now ;At Hangtown stood the big tree on whose stout are among the worlds largest. ilimbs two men could be strung up About the old fort, where pioneer at once. In Tuolumne county is the blacksmiths shod mules, filed saws, cabin of Bret Harte, whose charac- and whittled out pick handles for rises now a busy city ol ters in Tennessees Pardner and the miners, 500 more than were Flat of factories,, including iThe Outcast Poker colossal canneries of fruit and from hereabouts. 'drawn ' Though from these gophered hills . C.-- U Forty-n- lace stitch sets off the design in each square. String is the material used and youll be delighted with the result. You can also use mercerized cotton to make the squares a smaller size. In pattern 5695 you will find instructions and charts for making the squares shown; an illustration of them and of the stitches needed; material requirements. To obtain this pattern send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. 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