This Weekend's Clampout

Today will be mostly spent packing up for this weekend's clampout with the Lost Dutchman Chapter No. 5917 + 4 of E Clampus Vitus.

We'll be in Kingman, Arizona for the event which will include a plaque dedication at the Mountain View Cemetery. (That one's easy to remember as actor George Reeves is at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, California.)

The territory for the Lost Dutchman Chapter are the states of Arizona and New Mexico. As the temperatures are beginning to cool down at home, it will be nice to enjoy the 90-plus degree temperatures in Kingman.

The plaque's text:

MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY

THIS MONUMENT ERECTED TO PERPETUATE THE

MEMORY OF THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS THAT REST IN

THESE UNMARKED GRAVES

CHINESE IMMIGRATION BEGAN IN 1849 DURING THE CALIFORNIA GOLD

RUSH.THOUSANDS OF CHINESE, MOSTLY YOUNG MALE PEASANTS, LEFT

THEIR VILLAGES IN THE RURAL COUNTRIES TO BECOME LABORERS IN THE

AMERICAN WEST.THEY WERE RECRUITED TO EXTRACT METALS AND

MINERALS, CONSTRUCT A VAST RAILROAD NETWORK, RECLAIM

SWAMPLANDS, BUILD IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, WORK AS MIGRANT

AGRICULTURAL LABORERS, DEVELOPE THE FISHING INDUSTRY, AND OPERATE

HIGHLY-COMPETITIVE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. THE CHINESE

POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES WAS ABOUT 110,000 WHEN IT WAS

ENDED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT OF 1882.

DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 29TH,2018 (CY 6023)

LOST DUTCHMAN CHAPTER 5917+4

ANCIENT & HONORABLE ORDER OF E CLAMPUS VITUS®