The Nevada journal., 1851-10-16
THE JOURNAL.
Thursday Morning, Oct. I6.
Railroads.

are biau 10 Zee our cOten poIuIles
below moving on the subject Of a rail
road from Sacramento City into the
mountains, which idea We urged in n
previous number. He believe there is
40 other enterprise that would be so
richly renuneratyc for so long period
lin pcrpetuity--a rs that Of railroad
through cur mountain cities and towns
from some point below There are 9th er
considerations than the carriage of goods
and passengers over the road which in
duce tho undertaking, Building mate.
rails for the ciLies below are all impor.
ted at high lates, while we have in our
mountains an inexhaustb'c amount Of
the finest timber in the world, and
quarrics Of stcnc enough to build one
hundred Rahylons A railroad would
encourage our citizens to erect saw
mills to Gil the large demands Of lum-
Der for tie lower cities, and to get out
the stores of stone that now lie useless.
hus, not only would the business of
a railroad be pondorously increased, but
a great impulse would bo given to n
new class of business in our State, en-
laneing its prosperity proportionably.
] hc lumber supplied from Oregon is
rough and hard grained and could not
compete for moment with the bcauti-
ful pine that waves on oyery hill fo'
hundreds Of miles in this region-while
the article from the mountains could be
afforded at a price that would annihi-
late the trade in lumber from the East
1t has been deemed by superficial
lookers on, that Nevada and its sister
towns in the hills enjoyed hut an ephe>
meral existence, and soon our streets
would be grass grown, and the wilder
ness again resume its ancient hold in
these scenes Of busy industry. But such
an idea could never remain in the mind
Of u man who can estimate correctly the
effect Of the great causes by which we
nre surrounded Tho mere mining in
terests Of this region, setting entirely
asido the placer mines, are enough to
give life 10 large community. Men
gain foothold by discovery and pur-
chase in quartz veins daily, erect ma
ehincry. and get to consider the spot MS
q permanent location. In our commu-
mites Of men we are soon numbered.
But every year brings tremendous
accession Of women and children to the
country. These settle where home
has already been provided by the po-
necr heads Of families, and thus popula.
ton grows up around quartz machinery
OF q permanent character. Then men
of all trades come in to practice their
callings, and the city of FIVE thousand
men gradually grows to one of twenty
thousand from the introductio of fami-
lies, and Of branches of industry.
Within a circuit Of twenty miles Of
this city, there are many quartz leads
which will pay for many years, and no
one acquainted with the features OF this
region, and the amount of discoveries con-
tinually being made, will doubt that our
hills are ribbed with gold bearing quartz,
and will support mining population
for q century. Half dozen cotton
mills in the Eastern States have fro~
quently been tho basis of the erection
Of large inland cities, as Lawrence, Man
chester, &C., and we cannot perceive
why operations here, paying one hun
dred per cent, to five per cent there,
and productive equally in the future
beyond present ken, should not have q
similar effect.
But if Nevada and its dependencies
arc TO fade out, Sacramento, Stockton
San Francisco, and tho whole lower
country gain mere temporary exis
tence, for the large amounts Of good.
furnished the mining regions and no
to any Inherent source of prosperity, arc
they indebted for their present impor
tance.
The Transcript suggests running the
road to the "uest Of Nevadd,n for some
inappreciable reason. 1t may be q good
idea to play Hamlet, with Hamlet left
out; it is decidedly more consistent
notion than to send a railway in this
direction through the mines, and leave
out Of its track the principal city Of tn,
north, If an even road is wished there