The weekly Placer herald., 1853-03-05


our citizens are importuned to hazard the
necessary investment They come to us
for their bread and salt; they send us
their sick and paupers, and we take
charge of them. Our capital and capi-
talists sustain the State credit Shut our
county out from the State, and bonds,
scrip and warrants, resting upon the mar
row shoulders of the men of the hills,
would soon find it's level. Our taxes pay
large part Of the States revenue. Our
commerce p Divides for country consump-
ton. All these things intelligent men res
ident in the mining and agricultural coun-
ties know"
We copy the above from the San Fran
cisco Wing of Saturday last, and we must
say, a more unwarrantable reflection has
never been published by any paper in the
State, and is decidedly Liberal and con-
racted Has the Whig ever for an in
stant thought who it was enabled the San
Franciscans to contribute toward the en-
terprises of the interior. Who, but the
hardy miners of the mountaIns Who
have filled the overloaded Golfers of your
bankers and yonr merchants? Who, but
these same mountain men whom you treat
with such contempt' Who has made
YOUR commerce but the wants and trade
of the very 'smen of the hills" at whom
you turn up your nose, as If the very
mention of them was a stencil IN your
nostriIs. Why, it has been the labor of
the citizens of the mountains that has
made you what you are. But for their toll
and enterprise San Francisco might yet
have been an insignificant seaport town
instead ofthe proud mistress of the Pacific
coast. The result of their labors has
placed you in your present prosperous
condition.
And yo~ 90 lost i'll your seltshneSs
that you cannot see that every necessary
enterprise that is completed in the noun
tain region, is SO much more beneficial to
the interests and prosperity of San Fran
cisco-we care not whether yours or
mountain capital is enlisted. Ifyou have
not learned this fact, you had better open
your eyes to it, and permit your vision to
extend beyond the limits of your city cor
poration. t
1t is not our wish to see the beautiful
harbor Of San Francisco injured; neither
do we think it is the intention or wish of
any representative from any mining coun-
ty in the State. But even if such were
~ ;t hooon,o tho w Th5o- 70
make such wholesale reflections upon the
mountain people.
@ A friend writing from Empire flats,
near Dotan's Bar, informs us that busi-
ness has been very brisk there since the
rains. The Excelsior Water Company's
ditches are all full, and those miners who
can be accommodated with water are
doing we'll. Each day more fully proves
the richness and extent of the diggings in
that vicinity-the only cry is for more
water. Great anxiety is manifested con-
cerning the progress of the contemplated
canal of the 'sNorth Fork American Riv
er Canal Company" and the demands for
the issue of stock by the company is daily
increasing.
ANOTHER LUMp.-Our Ophir friends
have not stopped finding those Jumps for
which their diggings are SO famous. c.
C. Collins & Co., mining on the Hughes
Rayine, lust above the claim where the
Ogden lump was found, took out yester-
day another nugget of pure gold, weigh
ing 90 3-4 OF. Ii has been added to the
collection of specimens deposited at the
Ophir office of Wells, Fargo Il Co.'S Ex-
press. c
- AT the same office is also a beautiful
"a quartz cyrstal with two pieces OF gold
seated in the center. The mystery is how
they could have got in. Such crystals
are very uncommon and we'll worth ex-
animation. This is from Secret Diggings
'o' AZ Millertown, on Thursday last, two
men took out of the North ravine $40 of
beautiful fine gold The locality of Mil
lertown has been very good for gold dig
eing this winter.
<, fBopx FopND.-The body of a man ap-
narently about fifty years of age, was
found in the American river on Sunday