San Andreas independent., 1858-07-24
Important Event.

An overland mail from St. Joe, on the
Missouri river, cta Salt Lake city has
reached Sacramento in t,centy-nine days!
1t arrived in Placervlle at ii o'clock, p
NJ, on Monday, July 10Th, and was car
ried in wagons, bringing dates from Salt
Lake City to July 4th. The actual run
ming time from Salt Lake to Placerville
was only thirteen days, with one team
and Mr.. Cliff, the agent, is confident that
it can be made in eight days, with fresh
relays of horses on Goose Creek, the head
Of the Humboldt and in Carson Valley.
There was no difficulty experienced
With the Indians, and good forage was
found along the entire route of travel.
1t, as the agent and passengers assert,
the time between Salt Lake and Placer
vile can be reduced from thirteen to
eight days, We may confidently hope that
within the next six months the through
trip will be accomplished in twenty-five
days!
Under our present facilities of com
munication with St. Louis, Chicago and
the Mississippi Valley in general, it takes
letter from thirty-6ve to forty days to
reach us in this State; by the overland
route we shall gain at least ten days in
time, and St. Louis news will reach us as
soon as New York news. Butt is not in
this respect aione that we have reason for
public rejoicings upon the arrival of this
mail. 1t portends the speedy settlement
of the intervening country between the
waters of the Pacific and the Mississippi
The mail is the forerunner of line of
telegraph; the railroad will be the natu-
nal and inevitable result of the two, and
that in a very few years. The tide of
immigration that is now flooding the Ter
ritories of Kansas and Nebraska from
the East, will soon push the outposts of
civilization from the tributaries of the
Kansas river to the valley of the Platte
and as far westward as the Sweetwater
Wherever the soil invites, the daring en-
terprise of the pioneer will venture The
necessary stage-posts will form an imme-
diate nucleus for agricultural communi-
ties; and as the>land upon the line of
travel, with but few intervening spots of
sterility,) is of good quality, as far west
ward as the Black Hills, its settlement
may be- ceanted upon during the present
summer, From the Black Hills to the
tributaries of Bear river is perhaps the
only part of the roady east of Salt Lake,
that will have to depend for any length
of time upon military protection and as
sistance. Between Sacramento and Salt
Lake, if we except the ffty-mile desert,
an uninterrupted line of settlements may
be maintained. On Goose Creek, for
one hundred miles, all the natural ele-
ments for agriculture abound on the
head of the Humboldt, and for twenty
FIVE miles down that stream, on both
banks, these is a rich, productive soil,
well watered, covered with nutricious
grasses, and good timber on the neigh
boring mountains for fencing and build
ing. This district of country will GER
tainly be settled during the present sum-
mer. The most difficult part of the route
is the Lower Humboldt and the Desert,
where there is dearth of forage, and
good water must be supplied by artificial
means. From Carson valley to Murphy's
or Placerville, there are now continuous
lines of settlement.
We hail this arrival and the prospect it
opens up, as most auspicious to the inter
ests of this State. 1t is not the mere
matter of the few days time gained in
our mail communications with the Mis-
sissippi Valley that gives cause for exul-
tation it is the great end attained in a
continuous line of settlement from Stock
ton to the Missouri river These set
Elements will be the best guarantee for
the construction of line of telegraph
and railroad. The idea advanced two
years ago by Major Gilpin, of St. Louis,
that the country stretching out on either
side of the Rocky Mountains, is capable
of maintaining an agricultural popula-
tion, is about to be tested and realized. u
The fate of California hangs trembling
In the balances until this problem shall
be solved.
Ihe Southern route, from San Anto-
MO to Los Angeles, is humbug. 1t
starts from an obscure corner of the At
lantic States, traverses series of deserts,
shrough hostile and implacable Indian
tribes and farpaipofoc +bo