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A CALIFORNIA JUBILEK.
THE GOLDEl STATE CELEBRATES
HER FORTY YEARS OF LIFE.
Hit Knrly UUttiry In n lliitniiiirn -Thi-pa
lliinilretl Years of SpnnUh Hole l.enrn
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California celebrates tliu fort let li anni
versary (if her admission to tin union of
Rtut ., iiiul presents (o tlm world a history
rut fascinating as any romance, ami a table
of statistics In wealth anil general growth
nlinost as dazzling as any vision In tliu
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MISSION OF VN KIIAVCISCO HAY, 18.17.
"Arnlilnn NlKlits." Thn state U Indeed an
exception nmnug commonwealths. While
Its growth In population has not on tlm
wholo Wen so rapid as that of some other
states, Its history since 1818 presents a gen
cral development without parallel After
being for three centuries an unexplored
and almost unregarded and waste province
of Spain and Mexico, It .suddenly Ix-camo
the land of golden promise to mlllloiis,
and with n scarcely percept Ihlo Interval,
without the slow process of a territorial
childhood, it sprung at once to prominence,
among t lie states, like Minerva, full orbed
and armor clad from tliu twain of Jupiter,
The admission of the Mate, ly act of con
gress signed Sept. 0, 1850, ended the longest
session of congress held licforutho war, and
with tliu other "compromise measures"
adopted at the same date put an end to a
long and fui Ions sectional controversy, and
gave llnal form to the territorial system of
the United States a form whichcoutiuued,
with changes of boundary only, till most of
tliu territories beeninu states, and still con
tinues with three of them. Tliu region
which in 181'.! contained a semi nomadic,
population of some 110,000 Hlspuiiu-Muxl-cans
and perhaps 'JU.Ooo wild Indians, wan
In ISM n statu with nearly 100,000 white
citizens; ten years later thu tiumler was
3TP,tKU, ten years after that ftMi.tioo, and at
present thu total falls but little, if any,
below a million and a quarter
Its material growth has been still more
rapid. In IS-IU tft it was tiottsl as a remark
able fact if three American vessels arrived
in a year to bring "Yankee, notions" and
n fuw manufacture from New York and
llostou and carry away hides, and the
chance arrival of a British vessel was in
event of supremo, importance. In thu fo-.r
years ending with 1817 nbout 5,000 Ameri
cans ''crossed thu plains" to thu nuw ecuu
try: In thu latter year thu country became
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the property of I liu United States, ami lie
fore thu close of 1850 about a quarter of a
million of gold seekers had tried their fort
unes there. At present the wealth of thu
state exceeds S,000,000,000, and Is Increas
lug at an accelerated rate
Thu gold product, rated at 410,000.000 in
1849 and f 10,000.000 in I&I0, reached f(l.'.,()00,.
(KK)ln 1NMI, then It was announced that the
"liest days of placer mining were past,"
and many predicted thu decline of thu
state, (iold had converted Yerlia Hueua
village into thu most lively and interesting
city In America. Gold had created Sacra
mento and many other nourishing places,
and all other enterprises were subordinated
to gold, It was soon discovered, however,
that the wealth of the mines was but as
cents to thu' dollars In the sol. The east
was soon astonished to learn that Cali
fornia was self supporting In food prod
ucts, and in an Incredibly short space of
time thu state, frpmlieingthegreatcstgold
region on earth, passed to the condition of
the most promising cattlu region. Herds
multiplied till the rauchcrus scarcely knew
their own for multitude, but this Indus
trial phase, was brief, and soon yielded to
thu wneat era.
In alHudustrlal history thcio Is nothing
to compare with the suddenness and com
pleteness 'of this transition. One year, as
it now seems, people were reading In thu
market leports that Chili Hour was 10 per
hundred at Sacramento, and thu next that
native (lour was but a third that price;
and tliu man) jokes about high prices In
California weru still current In thu comic
almanacs when exporters from New
York weie confronted by thu rivalry of
California wheat.liiLivOrpoyl. There was
a short, sharp conlllct lietween cattlemen
and wheat growers, thu No Fence party car
ried the day, and within tlvo jears Call for
tile astonished the yvprd w)th her enter
prises in farming on a large scale. For
iio-ir after hour tliu traveler could ride on
a Milley road, with lufeuced Ileitis on each
side, thu yellow cereals waving on every
hand as far as thu Bight could pierte This
was the thlr 1 stage. '.Vlieut, cattlu and
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sheep are still important, but another
brinch of production now uxcltes moro in
to rust.
It might almost lie said thatCallforulaus
woke up one morning and found their statu
famous on account of Its fruits. Thu
Spaniards had planted thu grapeviuu and
left it to taku caru of itself. It had donu
fairly well; bvt from thu days o! Philip II
to the days of Castelar the Spaniards weru
thu last peop'u in thu world to apply expe
rience to tin beuelit of others. In thu
curly mining days peaches weru accounted
cheap at "three fur a dollar," and wild
grapes ut fifty cents a pound. Tire cxjierl
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meut ol ttilt ure was tried The result wan
a discovery as Important as that of gold.
I'very other I rill t followed rapidly, and
California was soon prooptroiM In hut
fourth stage -thestaguot graces, wlnu and
raisins, oranges, lemons and many other
delicate fruits Lumbering was of somu
Importance from the? first, and manufact
uring; l fnt arising 'o importance, for cot
ton, .Mite, hemp and ramie can ho grown
In al.titidaiici., and wool Is already a lead
lug product It would Iw rash to set a
limit to the future g.-owtb of such a statu.
The early history of California Is econom
ically of little Inipottaiice, but of great In
terest. Corte.couipiered.MexIcoln IMO ai,
and within a doren jears the Spaulanls
wete building ships at Acapulco ltd ween
TM and l.ViO they explored theeutlru coast
as far as Cape Mendocino, and In 151'. or
MM Don .luaii Cabrltlo entered the Hay of
San Kramiseo Drake was there In 1570,
Call in I.W, Certnenon In 1505 and Vlcalno
in l(lrj-;l Then the wonderful Spaniards
of the Sixteenth century tiled and left no
worthy successors. There was a paralysis
of two cent in ies, and, save a few missions
near the coast, the beginning of this cent
ury found California Justus Vlcalno left
it This Is all the more lemarkable since
Sir Francis Drake had published his rea
sons for believing thetewiut gold in thu
mountains, and theSpanlards had exploieil
all their inoru eastern teirltory for that
metal.
Soldiers, Franciscan missionaries anil
cattlu growers contributed a slowly in
creasing population till I8IU. Tho litis
slaus left a small colony, anil perhaps 5,000
Americans located there in four years.
Then came the Mexican war, and Call
fornla was formally "seized" In .January,
I'M". (Jold was illscoveretl In ihis. and civil
oivaui.atioii liecatnea necessity Military
(Jovernor Gen. Hi ley Issued a proclama
tion for the election of delegates. They
met at Monterey Sept. I, 1810, soon framed
a state toiKtltiitioii. ami when thu Thirty
II 1st congress met, the following Decisn
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Iht, William -M. tiwlnn ami .lolm C. Fru
mont presented themselves as the llr.it sen
ators from California. Many jet living re
member how the country was convulsed
dining the "long congress." President
Taylor dletl July (, 1850. His successor
soon declared for the "compromises," ami
thu long tight was ended Sept. 0, 1850, by tho
signature of President Fillmore to thu act
admitting California. J. II. Ukaih.k.
NOTED AS A REVIVALIST.
RonietlilliK Aliotil Mis. .Macule Villi Colt
mill Her Wink.
Although for twenty years Mrs. Maggie
Van Colt has been a successful revivalist
she has never sought ordination nor any re
cognition whatever, save such as came to
her naturally as the result of her work. The
lR'giuuiiigof her labors was in 1817, when a
series of meetings was being held at the
Dunne Street Methodist church In New
York city.
Mrs. Van Cott was invited to this meet
ing to slii. Shu had never, up to that
time, heard a woman speak lu public, savu
on the stage of a theatre, and Isjlleved that
no woman of refinement would do so.
However, inspired as shu believes by thu
divine spirit, she spoku at this meeting fu
a most Impassioned manner
Mrs. Van Cott says of this liegiuniug of
her work. "It tertalnly was the Inspiration
of the holy spirit, for I had no gift of utter
ance, was full of timidity ami fear, and
hail not been llttetl in any way for such
effort "
For nearly two years after this shu con
ducted nightly meetings while devoting
her days to thu reiiuilements of thu litisl
Hess which her husband's death hail Im
posed upon her. Two years later theat.cl
dent of Insiillicleut light caused her to en
ter a pulpit for thu II rst time From that
MltS. MAOtllh VAN COT1
lime on, more than twenty two years ago,
she has held an average of 7VJ meetings
each year. During this time over tKl.Ono
men, women anil children have professed
religion as a result of her preaching
Mrs. Van Cott was born In New York
city in 1SW. and is of Scotch and Kugllsh
extraction. Her maiden name, was Nuw
ton, and she is descended from thu Hnglish
house of that name.
A.NTOISKTTh Van Hokskn.
Kuplil Transit In Cities.
Thu cities of thu United States having
over 100 miles of rapid transit lines hoise,
electric, cable ami steam (elevated and stir
face) am as follows: Baltimore, o Him
ton, 'JOO. Hroooklyu, lid. Chicago, IM; Nuw
Orlsiius,.lid, Nuw York. 177. Philadelphia,
J83; St.' Iioilis, IIS Hut two of these have
eluvated roads, Brooklyn and New York.
There is, however, a short elevated line in
operation at Kansas City
Another lloy lAiiiiU'elUt
James Cook is the inline of the latest ad
ditloii to the ranks of boy preachers Like
Sam Jones and many other evangelists, hu
Is a product of the south, his mother now
buinga lesiilent of Clem, (ia "Jimmy."
as lie is called, Is but 11) jeais old His re
cent sermons In Cincinnati ci cited a sensa
tion The largest gun ever made luu. just In-en
finished bj thu Krupps It is made of cast
steel, weighs 15 ton ', has a calilsT of 111)4
Inches anil a barrel -t) feet long. Kach dis
charge costs tl.-VK), ind two shots can Ixj
fired lu a moment Thu gun belongs to
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