San Andreas independent., 1858-04-24
Correspondence of the Independent.
MURpHY's, April, 1858.

MURPHYs, April, 1853.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Everything here is in statu
quo or IN debt, at the present time, with the
exception of the Flume, and its course is on
ward and upward, at the rate of 2:4O, for Gen.
trail Hill Now, whether it would not be cheap
er to condense the Flat and move it down.
than to carry out the original design of bring
ing the Flume up, shall leave to wiser and
more experienced heads than mine, to deter
mine.
have seen and heard many knowing and
dlSinterested persons shake their empty heads
in very significant manner of late, and after
desperate fit of winking to recall, possible,
the only idea that ever visited the gloomy re-
gions of their cobweb brain, predict with all
the gravity of the bird ofwisdom, and the mu-
sicial cadence of the night-raven, thatit would
"fall through" Can it be possible that they
really have an inkling of what the Celestals
are about, and that Ching Wong, the rebel
Emperor, is sinking an artesian well right
under our poor little Flume and that it will
''tall through" Ormaybe they still remember
that moonlight night, way down in their mer-
ry boyhood, when they attempted to carry off
their neighbor's pears in crowness hat, and
they ''fell through" But it matters little what
they either think or say, upon subject of
which they are SO ptifully ignorant as they
are of the Flume and its resources; and if they
will only forbear in their prophetic demonstra-
tons for time have no hesitancy in prom
ising them, in the name of the company, the
first sail down it, on its completion.
Now, Mr.. Editor, they all think that they
know why it does not 60 up on a broomstick
some cloudy night; but they really know moth
ing about it. But between you and I, and the
fellow that listens at the key-hole, know the
great secret; and you will only promise not
to tell the little fellows on the outside, I'll let
you in. All very we'll! just let me whisper
it in your ar?-so. You see it is not the
depth, width, soldity or seaminess of the rock,
but that it groars so confoundedy fast" Ha!
hal ha!
You look astonished- believe it, eh?
Well, it's a fact, and being fact it can be
proven. According to the fearlessly expressed
opinion of one of our eastern Professors, the
beams of the sun, by forcing themselves into
its pores, will raise, and consequently, elongate
it. Now, here we have the problem of its
growth by day. solved at once By night, it is
attributable to the great quantity of wasted
powder, collecting an unusual amount of moist
ure this being gradually absorbed, the rock
swelis, and becoming too big for its bed, it
must necessarily "get up"
But laying the subject of its unparalleled
growth aside, as fully established and clearly
proven, let us take a bird's-eye view of its
other amiable qualities. In the first place, it
is, in spots, beautiful, handsome, pretty, good
looking, passable, common, ugly, abomnable,
horrid, disgusting, unfinehing and eternal
Secondly, it is straght-grained, cross grained,
twisted, gnarled, futed, squared, rounded, lap
ped, cemented, dove-tailed, and tumbled-in-
Thirdly, it IS beautiful mixture of quartz,
flint, limestone, sand, slate, granite, iron,
copper, &C., besides other little and pleasant
COLHUlHatlOnS, loo Sacreu 10 mention.
Perhaps you will wonder where got my
information, and therefore, to settle all doubt
as to its authenticity, and to relieve your weary
brain, l unhesitatngly answer, upon the cut
and by close investigation. Having gone there
to work, | knocked the bark off some of the
rocks by way of an introduction and some of
them knocking the bark off me, as an acknowl-
edgment of my polteness, put the two barks
together, Though confess that it made rather
a singular compound, and the amalgam was
the information desired. l left it rest even.
Feeling that it would be presumption, in as
feeble a pen as the one | WELD, to attempt
description of this magnificent work and that
it would be utterly impossible for me to do it
justice, permit me to take my leave of it, with
few more remarks, condensed and appended.
That, under the watchful and skilful man
agement of its intelligent and gentlemanly
Trustees, the discerning eye and sound judg-
ment of its noble-looking and kind-hearted
Superintendent, and the many blows of as
merry, open-hearted, kind, generous and manly
a set of devil-may-car fellows as ever tapped
drill or touched fuse-you need not be
surprised if it is finished before your next visit
to Murphy's. MAzEPPA.