New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-08
CALIFORNIA AS IT l..

SAN Francisco, July Is, l5j4.
In no other country | have are there such
great and rapid changes here. California, there
fore as II Low is, is not what it five years ago
not what it will be in FIVE years from to-day Its
lofty hills its fertile valleys, its mighty rivers and
broad bays they are not the same, because the
hand of industry is visible on their face. Think of all
this splendid country hundreds of miles in extent
capable OF sustaining dense population with less
amount OF labor than almost any other country IN the
world comparatively yalueess until 1t became part
Of American soil; then as if by magic, changing
other sectOn has changed in so short time.
The history Of the country il indeed marvel. If the
lives of its people could be written the simple
tyes he told, how they left home and friends for the
land of gold how many of them have abored and sut
fsred for Taught and how at last some of them,
isd with the tolls OF life struggled and died-what
history that would be. Ii would be sxanger than any
work of fiction for fancy could paint nothing OF the
Ills Of life tlat hasno been seen and felt here.
And yet results here no different from what
might and should have been expected. This is not
world of chance many seem to suppose, but for ey
cry effect there Is corresponding cause. If men
would bear this simple fact in mind what a deal OF
suffering aud misery they might easily avoid. Chance
or luck is hut another word for disappointment which
often leads 20 NTctchedness and ruin. And this
of . principal reasons why much disappointment
has Ucen realized in California, and why many
ried accounts have been written concerning it, Each
adventuTer has related his personal experience.
the unsuccessful ones story has been the
Neither Of these kinds of statements is worthy of be-
lief because both are exaggerated These persons
simply related what happened to themselves. They
furnished Information 70 the real character OF the
people, the present condition OF the country its vast
r,sources ana the great future which lies before it,
lie country the Pacific is unlike any in the At
lap'lc States Mountains, valleys. vegetation. climate
-Reariy all are different. Everything is spread out
On large scale. The grand mountains, the extend.
cd 10 4 h,rp ~ IL &c
he most picturesque and beautiful counties have
ever sen. The Sierra Nevada. and Coast Mountains
ID, principal ranges. The Coast Range as il is
termed consists Of two principal and distinct lines of
ridges. uuning parallel with the coast. Back Of
these are other ranges running in the direction
All OF them are separated from each other By wide
and long valleys, which sub-liyided aud receive
local names in the same line OF plain. The country
las not been surveyed. aud am not sufficiently ac.
ludlnted to state specifically the names and loratie
ofthe several ranges and their Subdivisions Thenum
r. and extern OF some fthe will give the reader
ar idea Of the amount Of land 10 for agricultural Dur
pos. The great valley Of California is watered by
the north and the SanJoaquin
4, III tie south. Il is about five hundred miles in
length with an acreage breadth OF fifty miles There
are various opinions relative to the value of this section
Tor agricultural p POSES. some maintaining that
time snG abor will r.nder il productiye others that
sAuch OF = VII never be occupied. But there are
nSmertus alleys froIa fifty 10 one hundred miles in
length and RON five IL zen miles in width the most
beautiful an fertile thSS the sun ever shoue mon
be Santa Ci%-a, the Salinas, and the Los Angeles
are vale south Of this, any Of them capable of
sustaining million ofpopuii,ion. All Of these valleys
are henmtd in b. high mSIntsins the foot hills nj
v hch title, w,d often growing TO an iucred
ible size far ~ their sides. Then there are great
number Of hooks and small ba.iss in the hills. from
hve 10 ten miles long anS two three wide the most
Charming spots imaginable. These ANAL valleys are
generally covered with grasses Of the most luxuriapr
growth, there Being great variety which are indigo
nens to the country. The valleys at the north
are no; 20 large because the country i
-oie mountaiaoCs, but there il s.eat quantity of
land even there which d. flyor,b,s j., agricn,;n,e
D. iie' hat were !, ~: cr gold California woud bo