The Trinity journal., 1856-05-10


Home, sweet sweet home, !" tits not of earth
Heaven hath home for all
CALIFORNIA AS IT WAS, AND Is TO Be
There has been much in the circumstances
and Developments Of California that has con-
tributed first to give her place, and secondly
rank among the number of States of this fed
eral Union. The discovery Of gold happen
ing when the country was subject to the i'm
migration of the adventurous and hardy
American the ease with which it was then
obtained, when it was worth, for all practi-
cal purposes less than now and the short
space of time in which many were enabled to
return to their homes with competency,
have all been highly favorable to California
When the news of the gold discovery first
reached the Atlantic States, many set out
at once for the land of gold while many Of
the more cautious shook their heads and de
termined to await further Developments ;
but general credence and confidence soon
followed the weighty evidence regularly for
warded and California was in the minds of
the multitude, and discussed with every phase
of opinion and interest The I'll Dorado Of
Spanish ayarcc and Spanish dreams, had
become a reality and the reality revealed
to the American after his predecessors had
become idle and eneryated, and lost all def
nitness of outline in blendings with the wild
Indian The Spaniard came to seek for gold,
but the American to find it.
Had mining been as difficult and expensive
in lS49 as now, the gathering of gold had
been left to the capitalist, and longer time
elapsed before the country had become pop
ulous but instead, the man with barely
enough to bring him here however raised,
was the first gamer The laborer and the
reaper were synonymous, and many an east
ern hearth now glows with a brighter fame
because Of the competency gained in Ell Do
RADIO Eureka " shouted the returning
laborer, and welcome {" Eurekanen "
was returned by glad voices. Then even
panning along the rayines was productive
and not a few supposed that the gold would
soon be exhausted, but recent experience
has shown the aurfcrous deposits to be wide
ly disseminated In the carly years Of Calor-
MA enterprise men came TO make a fortune
in two years at furthcst and the new conner
might suppose from the calculations of every
man he met that the country would soon be
depopulated and that he must haste to make
his "pile or stay and toll alone Years
have rolled over our heads, and all have not
become rich at a time, and so the couse-
auences have been avoided Now the adj
venturer must, with here and there an CXcep-
ton, expect to tarry for years, and none but
the misinformed will anticipate anything
else. The consequences of this are favorable
to the general interests Men have a repu-
tation to win, and to preserve They have
some interest in the establishment Of what
ever contributes to the public good, because
it concerns themselves, and a foundation is
laid for happy future. Wild dreams, and
wilder life, give way to the reasonngs of
sober senses.
The distribution of water by bitches, all
over the mining region, will materially mod
ify the uufayorable features of the dry season.
Labor may be proftably continued through
the year, and the gain to the laborer, though
slower, quite as certain, and quite as beneli-
cial Operations will not need to be shifted
from hills TO the river beds, and from river
beds to the hills, with the changing seasons.
Hydraulic apparatus does and will to
greater extent do the work Of laborers with
pick and shovel, while those whom it thus
supplants must find employment in the cou-
strnction of bitches and attending them.
One Of the interesting considerations con-
nected with the future of California, is the
destruction made of bill and mountain by
hvdraulic onerations If we look Mt the