Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ealth beyondestimate. The priestslived in the adobehaciendas thatthe Spanish haderected centuriesbefore, and, asthey counted theirbeads and dozedin calm ha|)pi-ness, they becamerich in flocks andthe tiibutes re-ceived from the simple-minded red men. Sometimes they wondered in a mildway at the golden trinkets and ornaments brought in by the Indians and werepuzzled to know where they came from, but it seemed never to have occur
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . ealth beyondestimate. The priestslived in the adobehaciendas thatthe Spanish haderected centuriesbefore, and, asthey counted theirbeads and dozedin calm ha|)pi-ness, they becamerich in flocks andthe tiibutes re-ceived from the simple-minded red men. Sometimes they wondered in a mildway at the golden trinkets and ornaments brought in by the Indians and werepuzzled to know where they came from, but it seemed never to have occurredto the good men that they could obtain the same precious metal by using thepick and shovel. The years came and passed, and red men and white men con-tinued to walk over California without dreaming of the immeasurable richesthat had been nestling for ages under their feet. One day in February, 1848, James W. Marshall, who had come to Cali-fornia from New Jersey some years before, and had been doing only moderatelywell with such odd jol)s as he could pick up, was working with a companion atbuilding a saw-mill for Colonel John A. Sutter, who had immigrated to this. GOLD WASHINU-THii) SLUICE. DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA. ; country from Bntlen in 1834. Going westwiircl, he founded a settlement on thepresent site of Saeramento in 1841. He built Fort Sutter on the Sacramento,where he was visited by Fremont on his exploring expedition in 1840. Marshall and his companion were engaged in deepening the mill-race, theformer being just in front of the other. Happening to look around, he asked : What is that shining near your boot! His friend reached his hand down into the clear water and picked up al)riglit, yellow fragment and held it between his fingers. It is brass, he said; Ihmhow liright it is ! It cant be brass, repliedMarshall, for there isnt a pieceof l)rass within fifty miles of us. The other turned it over againand again in his linnd, put it inhis mouth and hit it, ;i
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