San Andreas independent., 1858-07-31
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DAN ANDREAs BEFORE THE FIRE AND yov--
In all the Southern mines there is not y town
more beautifully situated than San Andreas
but the picturesque aspect which nature wears
around us is not our only boast: we are con-
trai IN the great mining county of Calaveras
possess rich and exhaustless mines in our inn
mediate neighborhood; we occupy, with ref
erence to the future, commandino noint ON
the nearest and best route from Carson Valley
TO Stockton and San Francisco. and we at
this time possess and profitably employ some
OF the best mechanics in the interior of the
State
before the fire, which consumed nearly the
entire business portion of town, San Andreas
was in fiourishing circumstances in business
point OF view, and her people were rapidly
surrounding themselves with those numberless
little comforts so indispensable to a proper en-
Joyment of home. The fire swept away all
these things in night. When the sun rose, its
scorching beams fell upon a heap of cinders
and ashes, as cherries and heart t-sickening as
desert. The calamity was an injury to all
"a benefit to no one. Just at this moment,
when every brain was the rack to devise
means for the restoration of losses, Frazer river
thrust in its ugly mug and completed our dis
tress. For brief period the stoutest hearts
were despondent. The good sense and energy
of our citizens have at last triumphed over ALL
The town is rising like a phoenix from its
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ing up. We do not remember time within
the past two years, when the evidences of
thrift were so numerous and palpable as now.
The burnt district is being rapidly rebuilt in
far more imposing style of architecture than
it exhibited before the fire. proof stores
of enlarged dimensions, are rising over the
sites occupied by old rickety frames, and in
two months more, if present projects are car
ried into action, the place will be larger and
far more substantial than it ever was
These performances are just so many evil
dences OF well-judged enterprise. Money in
vested in property or business here, will yield
satisfactory returns. San Andreas has a geo.
graphical situation which gives her advantage
over any town in the Southern mines. There
is no camp in this county that sells as much
goods, nor is there one that turns out half as
many specimens of mechanical industry I'm
mediately opposite to our Office is a wagon
makers and blacksmith establishment which
keeps in constant employ from six to eight
workmen, and turns out every variety of road
craft, from the heavy, iron-hub- -patcnt-axle
ten mule power wagon, to the light and ee-
giant one-horse jobbing wagon. This constant
din of the hammer and the anvil is cheering
TO the mud-sillS of the neighborhood for
it admonishes US, that here at least, neither
cotton or gold, but labor is King. Our lum-
bermen furnish their yards from mills on the
Calaveras, San Antonio and Willow creek
There is timber enough adjacent to these mills
to supely the wants of this part Of the county
for ages. We have our own brewery and
the elixir is brewed from barley grown in our
own neigllborheod. Our gardens and orchards
will in a few years supply US abundantly with
fruit Our mines are inviting to labor and
capital Upon the whole, we have reason for
mutual congratulations, and for ourselves, we
trust that we may long live to repeat these
ranevred asssa1arees