Oroville daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville, Butte County, Calif.) 1856-1858, 1857-09-29
Letter No. I'D.

SN'"' POiut VI fleWs INC advantages OTo-
Vile presented to settlers and capitalists,
preferential to those possessed by Marys-
vile. | design in this, more conclusively to
support that assumption, by more definitely
showing the material advantages upon which
our success is predcated under this view in
volving a doctrine of finite wants, we must
consider California in mineral and agrlcul.
tural sense only, for in q commercial point
| OF view, San Francisco stands aloof from
competition, her perpetuity had latent,
before she had practical existence, the de-
velopment of which was alike demanded by
State and National policy, and should she
escape earthquake dissolution, her end can
only be cotermnous with our government
and nrtion With our interior town it is
different Many following in order of those,
the ephemerat existence of which have
passed away, will be the result Of accident,
their advent and decay being respectively
attributable to the discovery and exhaus-
ton of the mineral wealth of their localities;
this of course chiefly applies to our remoter
mining towns, yet it is to the reactive influ-
ences of this anomalous order of things to
which we must attribute the vacillant char
acter Of our larger cities
| The development of the richer deposits of
| gold in the shallower flats and ravines, pre-
maturely accelerated the primal expansion
OF our larger towns, which the slower pro-
cess of developing deeper mines, cannot sup
port. Like u thermometer subjected to heat
or cold, many of our towns advanced or
retrogaded with sympathetic accuracy, rs
the mining was facilitated or became retaI-
ded. To this cause, aud misocation--an
early but very material error-ther decay
or prostration was attributable. Happily,
Mt that period the impusive rush of the
times required only the cheapest and most
portable material tor construction, and be-
ing unindurable, involved less capital, and
the profits OF IA short period Of trade sutfcng
40 repay their erection The area Of suffer
and in fact, with the trauscendent energy
of our people, and the facility ut that time
OF procuring unsecured loans, we find So
luton to The enigma which has no less puz-
zled than astouished tn. world i refer to
the celebrity which, after couhagrution. our
larger cities were so mngcaily erected, and
our public spirit preserved Fires, which in
other countries for many succeeding years
left ignoble ruins as memeutoes alike in
structive of their disastrous Influence and
the financial paralysis which they caused,
with US, gave birth to renewed and vigor-
Gus impulse, capital and material.
Ii we assume the very natural idea that
the mineral regions Of our State, divided
| from each other by mountainous valIies, to
be so many territorial circles possessing
each exclusive and independent characters-
tics; when their mineral deyel pment re-
qire the establishment of depot of supply,
the natural want promising such circle to
be measurably ascertained in the extent Of
its mineral rcsuurce>-wIli be at the cen rex
from thence cup.nerc al facilities Will radi-
ate. IL an unuue centre be chosen, then,
from having an ~ jacent and d slant circuui-
terence to supply, t,ade wIl necessarily be
uneven, and an unfair division Of advau-
tnge~ will result in lie advent of rival
towns Ia cur STATE | take il for granted
these localities are numerically finite; their
agricultural resources specifically. and their
mineral treasurer meesurubiy known Now
his argument npplle, almost Exclusively toI
regions beyond The head OF navigation but
he doctrine Of tinIte wants applies IA deter
mining numerically our cities below --ath"'
the causes OF their existence are different
north and east IF San Francisco they are
Sacramento Lty as the grand interior de-
pot. Maysvlle as the d-pot of supply Tor the
regions of the Iubi, Uroville that OF the
Feather river and its tributaries, Red Bluffs
for the region al Sacramento, Pitt and Trim
lty rivers, Stockton Tor the San joaquin.
and we may include Crescent Guy ~ "A toast
craft harbor AMI depot OF supply for the lie
gious of Klamath Salmon aud New rivers
If we speak OF those remoter towns, Placer
Vile, Auburn. Downieyile, Shasta, Weaver,
and Yreka, with the exception If Shasta,
they owe their existence 10. and depend d.
rectly n x;!usively. upon the mineral re-
sources OF their respective neighborhoods,
and will progressively continue or wane
with the increase or decrease OF the mining
population. and development of the spheres
which they respectively control; but with
cities at or below the head waters of naviga-
ton, there property will be co existent with
the density Of population in the higher and
morc remote repiuus beyond them which