Oroville daily Butte record., 1857-01-07
For the Butte Record
CorroNwooD, Jan 5, 1857.

Mr.. EDITOR ALLOW me through the col
umns of your highly esteemed Journal, to
enquire why il is that the Yankee, who Is
characterized for sagacity, notorious for per-
severance, and whose manifest destiny is to
gain the almighty dollar and spread civiliza-
ton all over the universe, does not take
deeper interest in the mineral department OF
our young and yet fourishing State, by sup
plying the different mining localities with
water, that are as dry as tine throat of Bac-
chus nine months in the year: 1t is con-
ceded fact that as soon as the mines give out,
California is gone in, as il is the piston by
which the business machinery of the State
is worked, and as soon as il is stopped the
merchant will be seen at his writing desk,
counting his credits, with n face as long as
the moral iaw," the specuator with his
hands in his pockets turning his bottom dol
lar; and emigration entirely stopped, as it
will be no longer enticed here with the pros
poets of obtaining pile of the gli;tering
ORC, and hence, no alternative left but uni
versal bankruptcy.
The only resource left, in my opinon, to
guard against such a calamity. is for capi-
talists and SPECTATORS, instead of building
bulkheads around the city of San Francisco
and atmospheric railroads across the Sierra
Nevada, to 90 up into the mountains and lay
out courses for water bitches, in such places
as Rabbit Creek, Pine Grove, st. Louis, Ure-
lars are laying concealed for want of the
proper element to have them oXtricated ,and
the miners Of those localities laying up in
their cabins halloaing water water water !,
nine long months in the year.
1t is well known that if permanent water
was introduced into the places | have men
toned, and many others besides, large flats
that are not more than prospected, would be
washed to the bedrock, the side hills would
then be washed into the flats, and the whole
again re- washed by the rising generation,
giving steady employment to hundreds of
miners for centuries to come, bringing into
circulation thousands of dollars that are now
buried in the ground. Business of every
kind would then be on more solid founda-
ton, the miners happy. and the spectators
rich.
If capitalists would only mix little more
among US, and enter more extensively into
such operations as / have mentioned, giving
out contracts to such men as j. Il. Meacham,
who by the knowledge he has obtained in
such operations, can carry them on cheaper
and better than any other contractor in the
State; as by proper management Of his
plans. always paying liberal wages, having
good mechanics, and by means of fumes, ,tun-
nels, excavations, &C., he brings water over
places that few years ago would have SEEM
ed almost impracticable. lie has at present
under completion ditch some sixteen miles
long into Thompson's Flat, and will have it
finished with q small handful Of men, in the
short space of two months, and that too in
the most inclement season Of the year But
why think much Of this, when we take into
consideration that he has for foreman such a
man as 5 W. Craige the live Yankee who
makes regular gougins machine Of every
Pat he employs, and does it in such gentle
manly manner that oil hands seem satisfied.
The benefits that Thompson'S Flat will re-
ce;ve from the new ditch, seem magical al
ready. A great many building lots are be-
ing fence1 in, quite a number Of buildings in
process of erection, and this Flat that con-
sisted of one store and a blacksmith shop,
will in few months be increased to large
town, with the inhabitants singing out for
mayor and city council.
Such is the effect of permanent water, and
places where now exist small hamlets, large
cities would spring up, and the miner would
pray in his very heart for the prosperity of
such benefactor, every time he would look
upon the sparkling wafer flowing past the
old cabin door. SMITHY.
DEATH OF Mr.. SwARTwoUr.-Samuel