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

wife and daughter, who lived not too far from dashington. when they arrived in Washington, they informed the wife and daughter so that they would be ready to leave. The matter of statehood was taken up by congress, one Senator from Iowa was so definitely against the matter, he was able to swing the others enough to defeat it. So when the delegate called at the home of the friend's family and when they told about it to the mother, she said, "Why, he was a special friend of mine in school. He always said I could ask a favor from him so now I will go to Washington, as I have often done, I will entertain and then give a small dinner party. Just you delegates, the Iowa Senator and one or two others. After dinner I will manage to ask a favor in a way he will not refuse." This all happened and the Iowa Senator said he could not speak in favor of it as that would only do harm. You get it before us again and, *I will not oppose it." Well, that is how it came about and how the Senator had a change of heart and California was admitted to the Union. The young lady "Daughter" was given the honor of carrying the paper carefully, crossing the Isthmus and also carrying a blue silk umbrella. Rain heavy on the way. lir. Ellis of Sutters Fort married the young lady. Her ring was made of Sutter's first Gold. GOLD POKE The University of California was started from the gold poke of this district. The University of California began courses of instruction on September 23, 1869, having received its charter from the legislature over a year earlier on March 23, 1868. The date of signing by Governor Frederick F. Lowe, prior to that, the University predecessor, the College of California, had been charted as an educational institution on April 12, 1855, at Oakland. This school came about as a result of a meeting on May 9, 1853, in Nevada County, of the Congressional Association of California and the Presbyterian Church. Professor Nenry Durant was electe tie first Fresident on august 16, 1870. krs. Church of the old Buckeye Ranch informs me that a letter from Professor Henry Durant was burnt up in a fire of the old Buckeye House in the Rough and Ready District. In this letter the Professor gave this district credit for starting the University of California from the Gold Poke donated at the meeting. a year after the conquest of California, van Francisco had a collection of 50 odd shacks and buildings along the cover waters and around Portsmouth Plaza. The beach was then Lontgomery Street. California was adnitted to the Union, september 9, 1850. iuillard Fillmore wrote at the bottom of the California Bill the word “Approved,” and he signed his name as Fresident of the United States. But it was not generally known until the 18th of October that the people of California learned the momentous truth. It was on that day that the good ship oregon steamed proudly through the Golden Gate with banners flying, bearing the good news. at once the American flag went up, welcoming the 3lst state into the Union. The celebration was held on the 29th of Cetober. Google Thus "Old Rough and Ready* (Zachary Taylor's) mission was filled. BEAR FLAG REVOLT Groups of settlers In Sacramento Valley and John Fremont's Company of explorers, sought to overthrow the California officials and set up an independent government. Mexican war came on and the revolt broke up. Fremont reached California with sixtytwo men, guided by Kit Carson and six Indians, crossing the plains before the Gold Rush. This was 1842, THE BEAR FLAG WAVES Determined to secure California for the United States, a small group of American settlers seized Sonoma on June 14, 1846. after proclaiming the California Republic, they raised a flag upon which had been painted the crude figure of a grizzly bear. On the following day, June 15th, William Ide, a leader of the revolt, issued a proclamation inviting all citizens of California to support the new republic. Within a month, however, the Bear Flag revolt and the California Republic came to an end. Most of those who participated joined the California Battalion, commanded vy Captain John C. Freemont, United States Army. It is true that Freemont, famous for the part he played in exploring California, and for the fact that he was the first American Civil Governor of California. General Freemont didn't have anything to do with the Mother Lode..he was the “Pathfinder™ who played such an important role in bringing California in as one of the United States. GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA .Some doubt whether California had a seal, legally adopted. Thought we may have used one at the constitutional convention at Montery. The great seal shows thirty-two stars. The original Seal had thirty-one, signifying that California was to be the thirty-first State. In 1858 the Seal was damaged and failed to give a true impression. The State autborized to procure a new seal and the old seal to be destroyed. Lieut. Derby joined in on an early project to lay out a town as big as New York, on Johnson's Ranch on the Bear River. They had in mind to make a fortune, and could have made a fortune by selling shares, but not a single house was built, so he lost his time and labor. Another party had offered him a proposition for a town site on the Yuba River, but he thought he was smart and did not want to be caught again. They got someone else. He was waiting to see the greenhorns start and then he would laugh up his sleeve. Hard luck hit him again--the site 1s where the city of Marysville now stands (Nyes Landing.) California's Population 1848...6,000 18652..269,000 When it cane to building the Railroad in California, it costed millions of dollars in Gold for blasting powder, and grading one hundred thousand dollars a mile. CALIFORNIA LODGE 13 On November 1, 1848, William Van Voorhis of Washington, D.C., was appointed assistant Post Office General of California. Together with others he applied for a charter for a California Lodge to be located at San Fran_ 12

wife and daughter, who lived not too far from dashington. when they arrived in Washington, they informed the wife and daughter so that they would be ready to leave. The matter of statehood was taken up by congress, one Senator from Iowa was so definitely against the matter, he was able to swing the others enough to defeat it. So when the delegate called at the home of the friend's family and when they told about it to the mother, she said, "Why, he was a special friend of mine in school. He always said I could ask a favor from him so now I will go to Washington, as I have often done, I will entertain and then give a small dinner party. Just you delegates, the Iowa Senator and one or two others. After dinner I will manage to ask a favor in a way he will not refuse." This all happened and the Iowa Senator said he could not speak in favor of it as that would only do harm. You get it before us again and, *I will not oppose it." Well, that is how it came about and how the Senator had a change of heart and California was admitted to the Union. The young lady "Daughter" was given the honor of carrying the paper carefully, crossing the Isthmus and also carrying a blue silk umbrella. Rain heavy on the way. lir. Ellis of Sutters Fort married the young lady. Her ring was made of Sutter's first Gold. GOLD POKE The University of California was started from the gold poke of this district. The University of California began courses of instruction on September 23, 1869, having received its charter from the legislature over a year earlier on March 23, 1868. The date of signing by Governor Frederick F. Lowe, prior to that, the University predecessor, the College of California, had been charted as an educational institution on April 12, 1855, at Oakland. This school came about as a result of a meeting on May 9, 1853, in Nevada County, of the Congressional Association of California and the Presbyterian Church. Professor Nenry Durant was electe tie first Fresident on august 16, 1870. krs. Church of the old Buckeye Ranch informs me that a letter from Professor Henry Durant was burnt up in a fire of the old Buckeye House in the Rough and Ready District. In this letter the Professor gave this district credit for starting the University of California from the Gold Poke donated at the meeting. a year after the conquest of California, van Francisco had a collection of 50 odd shacks and buildings along the cover waters and around Portsmouth Plaza. The beach was then Lontgomery Street. California was adnitted to the Union, september 9, 1850. iuillard Fillmore wrote at the bottom of the California Bill the word “Approved,” and he signed his name as Fresident of the United States. But it was not generally known until the 18th of October that the people of California learned the momentous truth. It was on that day that the good ship oregon steamed proudly through the Golden Gate with banners flying, bearing the good news. at once the American flag went up, welcoming the 3lst state into the Union. The celebration was held on the 29th of Cetober. Google

Thus "Old Rough and Ready* (Zachary Taylor's) mission was filled. BEAR FLAG REVOLT Groups of settlers In Sacramento Valley and John Fremont's Company of explorers, sought to overthrow the California officials and set up an independent government. Mexican war came on and the revolt broke up. Fremont reached California with sixtytwo men, guided by Kit Carson and six Indians, crossing the plains before the Gold Rush. This was 1842, THE BEAR FLAG WAVES Determined to secure California for the United States, a small group of American settlers seized Sonoma on June 14, 1846. after proclaiming the California Republic, they raised a flag upon which had been painted the crude figure of a grizzly bear. On the following day, June 15th, William Ide, a leader of the revolt, issued a proclamation inviting all citizens of California to support the new republic. Within a month, however, the Bear Flag revolt and the California Republic came to an end. Most of those who participated joined the California Battalion, commanded vy Captain John C. Freemont, United States Army. It is true that Freemont, famous for the part he played in exploring California, and for the fact that he was the first American Civil Governor of California. General Freemont didn't have anything to do with the Mother Lode...he was the “Pathfinder™ who played such an important role in bringing California in as one of the United States. GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA .Some doubt whether California had a seal, legally adopted. Thought we may have used one at the constitutional convention at Montery. The great seal shows thirty-two stars. The original Seal had thirty-one, signifying that California was to be the thirty-first State. In 1858 the Seal was damaged and failed to give a true impression. The State autborized to procure a new seal and the old seal to be destroyed. Lieut. Derby joined in on an early project to lay out a town as big as New York, on Johnson's Ranch on the Bear River. They had in mind to make a fortune, and could have made a fortune by selling shares, but not a single house was built, so he lost his time and labor. Another party had offered him a proposition for a town site on the Yuba River, but he thought he was smart and did not want to be caught again. They got someone else. He was waiting to see the greenhorns start and then he would laugh up his sleeve. Hard luck hit him again--the site 1s where the city of Marysville now stands (Nyes Landing.) California's Population 1848.....6,000 18652...269,000 When it cane to building the Railroad in California, it costed millions of dollars in Gold for blasting powder, and grading one hundred thousand dollars a mile. CALIFORNIA LODGE 13 On November 1, 1848, William Van Voorhis of Washington, D.C., was appointed assistant Post Office General of California. Together with others he applied for a charter for a California Lodge to be located at San Fran_ 12