Georgetown weekly news., 1855-04-12
Conditfon OF the Mines.

The mast season las been q severe one on
all persons dependent upon the product of
The mines. In consequence of q lack of the
usual supply of water by way Of rains and
SHOWS, all classes have suffered accord
ingly, and as q natural result, many per-
sons are now loudly crying out against the
hardships and misfortunes of the Miners
Did such persons stop here, we would be
content, but unfortunately, they blinded by
their own misfortunes, are heaping up their
maledictions against the mines and also
against the country generally-giving it as
their experienced conviction that California
is hard country to live in, and that min
ing is an sup hill'' and Improbable bust
ness. Now with skeptics of this class we
most respectfully beg leave to differ. First,
because California has proven herself veal
thy beyond all calculation; secondly, be-
cause there are occasionally dry and COM
paratively Improbable seasons for mining,
and there cannot be just conclusion drawn
| that the mines are Improbable; and thirdly,
because if men do sometimes loose in one
enterprise all they may have made in the one
previous, this does not furnish good and suf-
iicient reasons for condemning the mines
The truth is, in the aggregate they are i'm
mensely profitable, and with proper i'm
provements, such as are now in progress
throughout the country, the miners need
never have cause to offer complaints against
the chances of the mines, for these are gen.
orally in his favor, if he will but industri-
ously and economically tcork 1t is true
they have their misfortunes as we'll us their
good luck, as they call it; but take the indus
trious and sober class of them as a people,
and we defy the world to produce men
worth more than they are, according to
the time they have been laboring, and the
capital they had to commence those labors
with. 1t is charged upon portion of the
press that they misrepresent the true condi-
tion of the mines, by giving none but the
fortunate strikes of those engaged in the
work, while as they say, hundreds of per-
sons are to be found unfortunate in their la
bors, or without any business at ALL" We
will admit that men are oft-times unfortun-
ate, but if SO, let them try again. AS long
as they can eat, let them work If they do
this, past experience shows that in the end
they will come out with their laborS crown
ed with success.
AS to the publication of failures we do
not presume that it would be profitable or
interesting, therefore they are withheld, or
rather, not noted at all, except where con-
nected with locality. In agricultural coun-
tries, individual failures in crops are seldom
mentioned, while, on the contrary, we often
see notices of large crop of wheat raised
in one place, and of large drove of hogs
raised in another. This similarity must be
recognized by every one, and therefore, pub
locations of large yields of gold, though pc
cullar to California. are yet similar with ag-
ricultural States. in the publicity that is |
given them. Who, in the Atlantic States
would complain of truthful statement of |
large yield Of wheat in certain locality? |
Then why complain-why call it misrepre-
sentation, if we give publication to large
yields of gold, the peculiar product of Cali
fornia. We uphold California as a State,
as profitable mining and agricultural
country, and we do not consider ourselves
dishonest in giving truthful reports of the
rich products and capabilities of the State.
California, i'll our humble estimation, is no
humbug; but to the contrary, possesses all
the natural resources of prosperous and
populous country.