A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)

BL eX Scores of people lost their lives on these voyages, by yellow fever, calamities, and many untold hardships. According to some stories, the first Steamer to clear Panama was the Cresent City, Falcon, and Isthmus. James Jasper, also known as Jasher, came by boat from Azores Islands, and was a teanster at Rough and Ready. Susan Henry (Martina Paull's grandmother ) and her husband Patrick, came here via Cape Horn. Patrick owned the ground that the State Capitol at Sacramento stands on, and sold it for $750.00. He owned a ranch near Rough and Ready, and a creek was nemed of him. He brought race horses to California. One early day, Indians and squaws came to the ranch, .and carried off Susan, when she was a child, and wanted to make a squaw of her, but they returned her back home. Gold rush vessel Clipper, Leopard, in command of Samuel Pile of Salesburg, Miss., left Boston Harbor, December 17th, 1849, carrying 60 passengers. A Sunday School was organized, also an I.0.0.F. Lodge, upon arvel in San Francisco, June 1850, they land6d, Brig Euphemia, used as a jail for the City of Yerba Buena (San Francisco.) In the early days, ships went up the Sacramento River, entering into the Feather River, as well. 4t one shipping point, on Janu 30th 1649, there were forty-nine ships, schooners, barks, steamers, and brigs, at the point of sailing for San Francisco, besides for Charges, and seven for Vera Cruz. When some men had reached a certain pitch of gold ar yin and ier haa he would run » 9e ng everything, deserting anything, broke through anything in a way of responsib{lity or family ties. If they had financial lacks, they even stole in order to go. Some saved $500.00 and agreed to join the gold Tush; even weak sisters and runts had the fever to go. Harry Dun's grandfather, a 49'er, Benny Cole, came to California around the Horn from South America; his companion, Cole, died of yellow fever on the way. After striking gold here, Dun returned East with a pile of gold, spreading it on a bed, which practically covered the bed. R.J. Davis, born on Randolph Flat. His father, Henry Davis, left England in 1846, for South America, stayed two years as an Englishman in foreign countries; when broke could apply to their English counsel, and England would pay their way home. Davis apPlied, but his partner refused to do so. They returned on the same steamer. Henry Davis came to Rough and Ready. W.H.Butler, age 89, in 1950, relates: Eis father, J. Butler, came to Rough and ReadY, around the Horn in 1850, mined in Randolph t, in 1854, he returned east to get married, going through those hardships to get his old sweetheart that he left behind. He Teturned with his wife via the Isthmus. He had apple trees shipped around the Horn to Plant at Rough and Ready. The trees were ive years old, and he picked one ton of apples off two trees, and sold them at $100.00 per ton, At this date, 1950, trees still deering, On Randolph Flat, Butler took out 7 pola ences of one bes one and a half ounces per an cked wu old nuggets Valued at $1,000.00. > »& “eens One nugget, bleok as your hat, was thrown Go gle 89 under the bunk, and kicked around for three weeks, then cleaned up, and found to be a valuable gold nugget. W.H.Butler remembers stopping at the MeCharles Hotel, that was on Randolph Flat in the early days. He also remembers McCharles pbuilding a road in order to get around the toll road near Rough and Ready, but was too late. Butler remembers miners who had lost out on riches by a few feet. After digging, unsuccessfully, a miner sold out, five feet deeper, a fortune was taken out in gold. Emmet Cunningham's father landed here from ship in 1850, and made a stake. Mrs. Beatrice J, Knight of San Rafael, California, registers at the Compiler's Store, and says: Her husband's people came to Vermont before the gold rush days of 49, coming in the year 1845, to California, Knight Landing and Knight's Valley, named in honor of Mr, Knight. Mrs. Knight's father was Jerry Lowney, who came by steamer via the Isthmus to Timbuctoo, which is below Rough and Ready, about twelve miles, in 1852. On the way by steamer, yellow fever set in on board, and he escaped by taking a bag of lemons to the top of the Crow's nest. In 1852 and 1854, he could have purchased any property along Market Street, but was afraid that his children would get run over by wagons, so he bought on Mission Street. Nothing but a cemetery in front of his place, near the City Hall. Mr. Jerry Lowney mined all around, and did iron work on the State Capitol at Sacramento. He owned a blacksmith shop where the Palace Hotel now stands. Thomas Loney, when nineteen years of age, came via Panama, and freighted with oxen teams here. Wallace J. Sanford's father, Ben, came here via Panama, in 1856. : Ralph Tisher relates, that his father Abraham, and brother, came via Panama in 1850, and purchased the Rush Ranch, near Rough and Ready. He was a member of the Odd Fellows, and ran a dar next to Rough and Ready Blacksmith Shop. Miss Ernestine Haney, Sharpsville, Penn. writes, that her grandfather, A.B.Paine, left his home at Clarion, Pa. for the gold rush. He left New York, setting for Panama. Ten days later was on his way to Sacramento via the Isthmus, with incidents and stopovers in Jamaica and Acapulco. It costed him $500.00, with added ¥20.00 fare on the Sacramento River, to Marysville ¥6.00, arriving at Rough and Ready, April 10th, 1852. He brought Mr. Philips! claim for $12.00, making a net profit the first day of $100.00. The gold taken out by October came to $7,000.00. Thomas Branegan came around the Horn in 1847, took the first boat that came up the Sacramento River. Mrs. Branegan brought the cuttings from New Orleans in thelr trunk in 1848, around the Horn. Crcehard Street in Nevada City, was named after their orchard. Theodore Schwartz, coming across the Isthmus to Rough and Ready, while resting in the wilds, a monkey stole his cap. He got mad and threw a stick at the monkey, and the monkey threw the cap back to hin, On the early day steamers coming to California, the passengers were sitting around a table, going into detail as to where they came from, and where they were going. One of the ladies stated that she was going to Rough and Ready; they all got a laugh out of this, claiming there was no such place. The

BL eX Scores of people lost their lives on these voyages, by yellow fever, calamities, and many untold hardships. According to some stories, the first Steamer to clear Panama was the Cresent City, Falcon, and Isthmus. James Jasper, also known as Jasher, came by boat from Azores Islands, and was a teanster at Rough and Ready. Susan Henry (Martina Paull's grandmother ) and her husband Patrick, came here via Cape Horn. Patrick owned the ground that the State Capitol at Sacramento stands on, and sold it for $750.00. He owned a ranch near Rough and Ready, and a creek was nemed of him. He brought race horses to California. One early day, Indians and squaws came to the ranch, .and carried off Susan, when she was a child, and wanted to make a squaw of her, but they returned her back home. Gold rush vessel Clipper, Leopard, in command of Samuel Pile of Salesburg, Miss., left Boston Harbor, December 17th, 1849, carrying 60 passengers. A Sunday School was organized, also an I.0.0.F. Lodge, upon arvel in San Francisco, June 1850, they land6d, Brig Euphemia, used as a jail for the City of Yerba Buena (San Francisco.) In the early days, ships went up the Sacramento River, entering into the Feather River, as well. 4t one shipping point, on Janu 30th 1649, there were forty-nine ships, schooners, barks, steamers, and brigs, at the point of sailing for San Francisco, besides for Charges, and seven for Vera Cruz. When some men had reached a certain pitch of gold ar yin and ier haa he would run » 9e ng everything, deserting anything, broke through anything in a way of responsib{lity or family ties. If they had financial lacks, they even stole in order to go. Some saved $500.00 and agreed to join the gold Tush; even weak sisters and runts had the fever to go. Harry Dun's grandfather, a 49'er, Benny Cole, came to California around the Horn from South America; his companion, Cole, died of yellow fever on the way. After striking gold here, Dun returned East with a pile of gold, spreading it on a bed, which practically covered the bed. R.J. Davis, born on Randolph Flat. His father, Henry Davis, left England in 1846, for South America, stayed two years as an Englishman in foreign countries; when broke could apply to their English counsel, and England would pay their way home. Davis apPlied, but his partner refused to do so. They returned on the same steamer. Henry Davis came to Rough and Ready. W.H.Butler, age 89, in 1950, relates: Eis father, J. Butler, came to Rough and ReadY, around the Horn in 1850, mined in Randolph t, in 1854, he returned east to get married, going through those hardships to get his old sweetheart that he left behind. He Teturned with his wife via the Isthmus. He had apple trees shipped around the Horn to Plant at Rough and Ready. The trees were ive years old, and he picked one ton of apples off two trees, and sold them at $100.00 per ton, At this date, 1950, trees still deering, On Randolph Flat, Butler took out 7 pola ences of one bes one and a half ounces per an cked wu old nuggets Valued at $1,000.00. > »& “eens One nugget, bleok as your hat, was thrown Go gle 89 under the bunk, and kicked around for three

weeks, then cleaned up, and found to be a valuable gold nugget. W.H.Butler remembers stopping at the MeCharles Hotel, that was on Randolph Flat in the early days. He also remembers McCharles pbuilding a road in order to get around the toll road near Rough and Ready, but was too late. Butler remembers miners who had lost out on riches by a few feet. After digging, unsuccessfully, a miner sold out, five feet deeper, a fortune was taken out in gold. Emmet Cunningham's father landed here from ship in 1850, and made a stake. Mrs. Beatrice J, Knight of San Rafael, California, registers at the Compiler's Store, and says: Her husband's people came to Vermont before the gold rush days of 49, coming in the year 1845, to California, Knight Landing and Knight's Valley, named in honor of Mr, Knight. Mrs. Knight's father was Jerry Lowney, who came by steamer via the Isthmus to Timbuctoo, which is below Rough and Ready, about twelve miles, in 1852. On the way by steamer, yellow fever set in on board, and he escaped by taking a bag of lemons to the top of the Crow's nest. In 1852 and 1854, he could have purchased any property along Market Street, but was afraid that his children would get run over by wagons, so he bought on Mission Street. Nothing but a cemetery in front of his place, near the City Hall. Mr. Jerry Lowney mined all around, and did iron work on the State Capitol at Sacramento. He owned a blacksmith shop where the Palace Hotel now stands. Thomas Loney, when nineteen years of age, came via Panama, and freighted with oxen teams here. Wallace J. Sanford's father, Ben, came here via Panama, in 1856. : Ralph Tisher relates, that his father Abraham, and brother, came via Panama in 1850, and purchased the Rush Ranch, near Rough and Ready. He was a member of the Odd Fellows, and ran a dar next to Rough and Ready Blacksmith Shop. Miss Ernestine Haney, Sharpsville, Penn. writes, that her grandfather, A.B.Paine, left his home at Clarion, Pa. for the gold rush. He left New York, setting for Panama. Ten days later was on his way to Sacramento via the Isthmus, with incidents and stopovers in Jamaica and Acapulco. It costed him $500.00, with added ¥20.00 fare on the Sacramento River, to Marysville ¥6.00, arriving at Rough and Ready, April 10th, 1852. He brought Mr. Philips! claim for $12.00, making a net profit the first day of $100.00. The gold taken out by October came to $7,000.00. Thomas Branegan came around the Horn in 1847, took the first boat that came up the Sacramento River. Mrs. Branegan brought the cuttings from New Orleans in thelr trunk in 1848, around the Horn. Crcehard Street in Nevada City, was named after their orchard. Theodore Schwartz, coming across the Isthmus to Rough and Ready, while resting in the wilds, a monkey stole his cap. He got mad and threw a stick at the monkey, and the monkey threw the cap back to hin, On the early day steamers coming to California, the passengers were sitting around a table, going into detail as to where they came from, and where they were going. One of the ladies stated that she was going to Rough and Ready; they all got a laugh out of this, claiming there was no such place. The