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...Coloma, Calif. (pop. 561) celebrated the 100th anniversary of the discovery of gold at famed Sutter's Mill...
...Under Young's relentless driving a city was laid out, farms established, dams raised, smithies, tanneries, crude flour mills set up. Young knew what the Mormons needed for survival: isolation and a chance to sink their roots. When the Mormons heard the news of the gold strike at Sutter's Mill, he cried: "Gold is for paving streets," and rallied the faithful to their toil...
...World, The West. In the American tradition, San Francisco had boomed into being-in the stampede which followed the discovery of a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill. The town had grown richer in the raw, exciting days of the Comstock and Mother Lodes. Proud of the independence its riches brought, it had still reached for contact with the eastern U.S., first by stagecoach, then by the pony express, then by the transcontinental railroad...
...sights of the town. Papa Hiler has a quiet reputation of his own, as a theatrical agent. A hobby-rider, he also likes to paint pictures-brightly colored, engagingly irresponsible pictures of beach scenes, toylike Venetian canals, imaginary Oriental landscapes, houses like patchwork quilts. Last week Sutter Street's Raymond & Raymond Gallery was exhibiting some of Papa Hiler's paintings. The critics were pleasantly taken aback. Said the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "He sets up quite regular rhythmic patterns and then answers them in a kind of sudden, surprising syncopation. It is the nearest visual...
...Onetime bankrupt, thief, forger, wife deserter, John A. Sutter became a highly successful rancher in the Sacramento valley. Then in 1848 gold was discovered on his property. Result: 17,221 squatters moved in, ruined him overnight...