The Nevada journal., 1853-04-08
Grass Valley Correspondence.
California --Its Prospc cts-- Mining Improve
ments--Plink Road. .Socini..AppeaI of u
Bachelor to the Ladies'.

CailforTin--Its ProGpc ccts-- Mining Improve
ments--Plink Road. ..Sociai..AppeaI of u
Bachelor to the Ladies'.
Grass Valley, April 9th, 1858.
The climate and scenery Of California
is perhaps more attractive than that of
any other country on the face of the
globe, Man is here natures foster
child. The elements all seem to con-
spiro to effect him with the most pleas
! ing impressions, and the remarkable
physical features of the country them
selves elicit from him the most agre cable
exercise of all his senses The land
scape scenery, SC full of charms, delight
his vision and cnraptulc his fancy, while
natural phenomena that on all sides
surround him, amuse his reason, and
fill his mind with curious speculations
and pleasing theories.
No common destiny awaits California.
| She is the Italy Of North America, and
time and cultivation will render her as
polished in art as profound in science,a
elegant in literature, as Italy ever was.
| The hand Of time Will throw mighty
spell oyer this wild land. In the future it
will become classic. Our noble rivers,
our stupendous mountains vieing with
the heavens in altitude, maj iestic forests,
whispering wood antls, enchanting dales,
vast and festilc plains. tranquil harbors,
and worll wide ocean that holds US in
proud alliance with the whole earth, will
no longer be associatcd with rudeness
and uncultiyation, fcrocious beasts, un-
subdued herds and wild tribes Of rowing
Indians. They will inspire the song of
the poet, fertiize our literature, wreath
the page of the historian, and enrapture
and render triumphant the eloquence of
tongues unborn, pleading for liberty and
religion. San Frarcisco will be the
commercial exchange OF all the world !;
3cnecia OF San Jose, the repository of the
llustious archives Of our state. Our chill
drcn will pride themselves in the memory of
bold and adventurous ancestry, and thank
God that they have found their home in a
region beneath a sky so propitious and love-
ly rs California.
BY many it is querry, how long will CAL
ifornia hold out How long will she con-
linuc to renumcrate her citizens for their toll
in manner uncqualed by any country now
known, or, are the good times going instead
OF coming 1t is not literally and mathe-
matically true that the gold mines are IN
erhdasirJte for il is evident that q thing
which is subject to decrease, must finally, if
this process continues, be wholly consumed,
But, with reference to our day and generation
they certainly are incxhaustabc So long
as we live, California will pay labor from two
to four times as much as any country within
our knowledge with tha exception Of fAustral-
in. The history of geld mining in this state is
full Of interest and illustrates in 4 high de
gree the progressive character Of the Ameri-
can people. The earth now washed as q
general thing, to be sure is not so highly au-
niierous, as that worked shortly after the
mines were opened; but then, the means and
applicants Of extracting it from the Garth,
have rs mach increased G5 its richness has
decreased so that what is lost i'll one way
is made up i'll another, and thus the mines at
this very moment, are practically as rich as
they were two years ago.
The enterprise and skill of the American
people will make the mines pay them. 1t is
singular fact, and one which comments in
the most gratifying :aanner upon the capac-
ity of our race, that Notwithstanding mining
was among the first employments that en-
gagged the attention Of mankind and has con-
tinually occupied their industry from the
earliest ages till now the American has
done more to advance this act in the last
three years in the STATE of California, than
has been done by the whole world in all an
terror time. With the most simple and rude
appliances, mining was highly lucrative
business in the early part Of its history in
this state, and now by the aid of science and
art applied with an extraordinary ingenuity
and an unAaging energy, it is scarcely less
so than in the year l849 when every ravine
was huge Long Tom, only awaiting its rip
pie boxes to be ''panued out" to ascertain
your product of gold dust. And as it has
been in the past so it viii be in the future
Enterprise and skill have already turned this
country upside down; what it will do in
time TO come, is difficult to say. Ravines,
Greeks and even Rivers have deserted their
time-worn channels, rocky beds, wild deep
canons and cool shades, and have betook
themselves as by some freak of nature TO
woodland heights and mountain tops, The
wild brook has been subdued its time-hon
ored home among the careless rocks will
know 1t ne more, for it has been led away
to serve the cupility of man The violet !
that so gaily deeked its vcrdnnt margin will |
pine and die, for its soft and refreshing wa
ters and its murmurs of poesy and peace will |
lend no more their soothing harmony to the
scTuestered bowers If ha' nv birds Man lgs !