[McGroarty, JS.] . lone campfires, few and far between,in the hush and silences of the high Sierras that are called theMountains of the The pioneer Franciscan Padres who drove the first stakesof the white mans civilization in California did not includethe San Joaquin Valley in their scheme of religious, civil andcommercial conquest. But that they would have done soat a later day there can be no doubt. Not only were thereIndians in the great Valley, but they were the best specimensof the race in California and approached nearest to the splendidtypes of the Indians of the plains of the m
[McGroarty, JS.] . lone campfires, few and far between,in the hush and silences of the high Sierras that are called theMountains of the The pioneer Franciscan Padres who drove the first stakesof the white mans civilization in California did not includethe San Joaquin Valley in their scheme of religious, civil andcommercial conquest. But that they would have done soat a later day there can be no doubt. Not only were thereIndians in the great Valley, but they were the best specimensof the race in California and approached nearest to the splendidtypes of the Indians of the plains of the mid-west. And it was The Indian tribes of FresnoCounty were for the most part of apeaceful nature. Notwithstandingthis general attitude the first whitesettlers at Millerton were attackedseveral times and it became necessaryto establish a garrison of soldiers forthe protection of the miners. Of theoriginal several thousand members ofthe Chookchancy and Mono tribesthat inhabited the county, only a feiohundred Indians the Padres sought—the souls of the heathens to bewon for Christ. It has come to pass with the swing of the centuries that anewer race now holds the vast, wide stretches of the San Joa-quin. Between the Sierra Nevada on the East and the CoastRange on the West, and between Stocktons gateway at theNorth and the gateway of the South at Bakersfield, this greatestof all the valleys of the world in which the ancient empires ofhistory could be set with room to spare, has been made toblossom as the rose, and to shine as emerald in the sun. Upon the Valley of the San Joaquin is now the touch ofliving waters, harnessed in the hills and trained to flow wher-ever the mind of man so wills. Green pastures are now wherethe wild grasses turned immemorially brown in the youth ofthe year. Orchards bloom where once was desert waste. And,where of old, the infrequent Indian rancheria stood, are nowbright cities crowding the golden miles, their spires and roof-trees and the domes
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