Columbia gazette. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne County, Calif.) 1852-1855, 1854-11-18

Miners, do you ever reflect, while YOU
linger idly round your claims, now lyint
unworked, or while you are casting rue
full glances towards the heavens, hopin,
to discern the long wished for appear
ance Of wet weather, that it is your owl
fault that you are in idlene.s; that j
is through your own want Of proper spir
it, that you are deprived of the abilit,
to continue your labors from day to day
and from year to year, without Interrupt
ton: to dig and work, to pan ou
and pocket, day by day, and season af
ter season. without ceasing, Do ynr
ever reflect, while month after month
of the best weather, in the best of eli
mates for the free and full exercise of la
Dor is passing away, and you remaining
inactive, unable to take out the wealth
under your feet, that is all but in your
grasp, that you are the free and willing
sufferers of all this great loss ? Do you
ever reflect, while you roam through the
country, spending your former earnings
seeking some new place to scrape out a
dollar, or toll out your energies and
your health in the beds of rivers, strip
ping off large granite deposits, to get
at little means, to assist you in killing
off time, that all this is occasioned thro'
your own inactivity Do you ever re-
feet that the blessed season for labor on
your good claims, at and around Column
bia, is allowed to pass away without val
We to you, and that what nature has
made so beautiful and useful is all lost,
through your own FAULT Do you ever
seriously and sensibly reflect on any or
all Of these omissions and commissions,
that lay to your own free charge? 1t
would seem not =!
Why is it, that you look from sun
shine to storm and look longingly
Why is it that you are gloomy when
nature smiles, and glad when she frowns
in storm and tempest? 1t is not neces-
sary to answer for you, but it is necessa-
ny to tell you, that it is through your
own want of spirit, your own want of ac-
ton, that you thus turn from your ma
lures and through selfish vision per-
vert the beauties of the season.
You suffer for water; why do you
not help yourselves Why do you not
devote the time and money lost in roam
ing about for employment, in fruitless
river labor, and in wasting idleness, a
waiting the passing away Of season, tie
the proper means OF realizing all your
wants, as miners. You can, if you will,
have water when you want it, and where
you need it, and a plenty Of it. Let
every miner who now suffers for water.
and who will suffer again next year, from
the same want, let these, and, if you
please, these only, aid the New "ater
Company, now offering to bring the
great stream here. Let each one do
something toward the enterprise In
terest in share, or even in part of
one. Let two, three, or more miners
of the class We allnde to, take share
together. Let each claim take share,
and by this suffering class Of men, these
Roamers, River-toilers, Idlers of neces-
sity, men who look for Storms, and are
gloomy in pleasant weather, will the
great river be brought in.
Meu who have rich claims, and idle
round them, come all such, throw off
the free will with which you suffer, and
bring the water in. Get together, and
send from among yourselves, few in
telligent, able men, of good judgment,
up into the hills let them sec into the
facts; take no Surveyors report rely
upon no statement of Officers or Trus-
tees; look, see for yourselves through
these men; and then, if they tell you,
that there is mountain stream, fed in
the everlasting hills, dependent upon
no season, being source above and be-
yond the necessity of banks of snow, or
occasional storms of rain: Not pcnt up
in granite district, but flowing on thro'
years, full and bountiiiul, all at your
hands and for your good use then lend
your aid to the good work, and realize
the good that will be enjoyed through
it; and then we shall not again ask what
your reflections are; for We know that
you will reflect, that you have acted
wisely, sensibly and well
MINERS ExcHANGE.-D. O. Mills
& Co., are now established in their
beautiful fre-proof building, and are do
ing splendid business. The house is
crowded, every evening, by the hardy
miners, to exchange their gold dust for
Uncle Sans mint-drops.
Hook & LADDER Cove under.
stand that there will be meeting of
the Hook & Ladder Co., at the Ameri-
can Hotel, on Monday evening next.
Be on hand boys!