San Andreas independent., 1857-05-30

place, washed out 30 In one uay, WneH He
hauled the sluices away saying it would not
pay Such is mining life.
We also learn that Messrs. Hendricks & Co.,
who are working on the fiat near jerks ranch,
have struck good surface dggings-making
from twelve to twenty dollars per day to the
hand for the last ten days.
Hillory & Co., on CASTOR Hill, took out of their
claim last week S625-three men working.
San Francisco and the Big Tree Route
A writer in the San Francisco Bulletin
who signs himself " Record" " very unchar-
itably attacks the Big Tree Route, because
a few specified and unspecifed members
of the last Legislature, from the noun
tains, denounced the San Francisco delega-
tion as wishing to g smuggle' certain bills
through the Legislature, regardless of a
correct understanding and mature deliber-
alton on the subject Mr. "Record' then
makes an indiscriminate attack on Messrs
Norman, Meloney, Beatty and Cofroth,
giving each to understand, "thou shalt
fall down and worship me- or be forever
"cast out beyond the reach of "Rccords"
benignant "smile" The citizens of Cal
averas county are well satisfied with the
course of Messrs. Norman, Meloney and
Beatty, in reference to the Consolidation
measure Now, as Mr. Coffroth was the
particular "pet" of the San Francisco
"roughs," and the Steamboat Navigation
Company, it is strange the Bulletin should
admit the following truths, in connection
with that general TRADE of error" in
which " Record" says:
'sNlr Coffroth, of Tuolumne, was another of
the representatives from that section of country
He was not consistent in anything, and if | were
to put my finger on one of his votes, he would
probably find you two speeches and half dozen
votes on the other side. He was, however, the
pet of the State Journal the advocate of several
swindling bills pretended to be better posted
concerning the interests of San Francisco than
her own representatives, and was always op-
posed to them He opposed every reform meas
ure that was introduced for her benefit, and
helped to pass all that injured her, and sneered
at and slandered her on all occasions. | see by
the papers that he is now commencing his new
career as a lawyer, as the counsel for Ned Nc
Gowan, the late prince of the villains and the
ballot suffers in San Francisco"
Now, again, what has all this to do with
the opening of the Big Tree road ? In
the name of common sense, does "Record"
believe that San Francisco can exist, on her
own resources, Independent of the noun
tains? Stop the supply of gold from the
mountains, and how soon would the mer-
chant princes" of San Francisco { who
neither toll nor spin, but are clothed more
gay than the lilies of the field, stare, sui
lenly in their idlcness at the following pic
ture:
"Al stood still,
And nothing stirrd within their silent depths !;
Ships, sailorless, lay rotting on the sea-"
We can live without San Francisco ;
the gold will supply our wants in other
markets. Already are the miners prepared
to furnish their wants and subsistence sup
plies from the produce of the plains, with
out reference to San Francisco Prices
Current. The Immi grant Aid Associa-
tion is a very plausible plan to effect the
object in view, (increase of population, J
but the Big Tree Road is better one. If
we wish population Of independent, work
lug men to come to this country, we must
bring them overland, and in order to do so,
must build road SO that they can come
with their families and teams and stock
We do not wish the country filled up with
houseless, homeless operatives, from the
purlieus of the Atlantic cities, here to be-
come operative poems" of the land specu-
lators. As long as the spectators who
hold our best lands refuse to sell and give
bona Jfde titles to the domain, so long will
the Immigrant Aid Association avail but
little The idea of bringing poor men and
women to California and casting them
out, destitute, to the mercy of the land
speculator, is perfectly revolving. The
capitalists Of San Francisco are making
every effort to induce certain class of i'm
migration to come to this State, while at
the same time they are refusing the COM
mon necessaries of life to the laborer al
ready here, by failing togive remunerative
wages to the operative, or employment to
the idle; even the officers experimenting
the Government works, aid and abet IN