The Nevada Democrat., 1859-01-19
NEVADA CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 49, 1859
sonora-The New EI Dorado.

SuuOE0.1nC view III DOEAOOs
We find in late number of the Philadelphia
Press some extracts from work recently pub
lished in regard to Mexican rule In Sonora.
The book is written by a Mr.. Warren, and en-
titled, "Dust and Foam, or Three Oceans and
Two Continents" Mr.. warren's state ment of
of the future destiny of that country, will be
read with interest by Californians
"Sonora is the richest of these provinces, for
although its surface is extremely mountain Gus,
still intersecting these ranges, are broad fertile
valleys, well watered with never-failing springs
and wooded with superb forests.
'Here. growing side by side, may be found
the productions of the torrid and temperate
zones-felds of wheat and sugar cane, and the
vine and the orange tree may be seen blossom
| ing at the same moment with the cotton plant,
which is Indigenous to the bottoms along the
rivers Gila and San Pedro. Every metal. pre-
cious and useful has been thrown pell-mell
from the burning furnace of the Sierra Silver
as well as gold, is found in its virgin state, and
in masses; the very marble is Seined with
gold. and the stones themselves sweat with
quicksilver.
with q seaboard of 500 miles on the Gulf Of
California, its ports are those through which
must necessarily pass all its own imports, and
those of that immense tract of country, CON-
prising the States of Durango and Chihuahua.
| "When we take into consideration these vast
tracts OF country, of unheard of-fertlity-
abounding in mineral wealth, the extent Of
which we dare not dream, utterly devastated
and given over TO wandering tribes of savages
does not the certainty suggest itself to our
mind, that before many years the American
people, proverbially ambitious and restless as
they are, will spread themselves over this hid
oen paradise, and driving out the Indians, will
in defiance of Mexico, and whether or not pro.
tected by our own Government, establish them
selves SO firmly (as they did in days gone by il
Texas) that the United States will by force o
circumstances, be necessitated to annex and
eountenance them? When this takes place, as
it most assuredly soon will, who can estimate
the Importance that will be attached to the out
let's of a country more rich and fertile than the
valley of the Mississippi itself? Guaymas
from its central position and its wonderfully
safe aud commodous harbor, will of course be
as it is at present, the principal seaport town;
and there are men living, who may see the mis-
cradle town of Guaymas as fourishing city
as San Francisco at the present day, more par
tieularly should it be chosen as the terminus
for the Pacific Railroad, as has been suggested
Even now, we hear of heavy American ships, in
search of freight, leaving San Francisco, bonnd
to Guaymas, in order to load guauo in its i'm
mediate vicinity; and knowing as we do, the
valuable deposits of sulphur and saltpetre
which are lying unheeded within comparative
ly stones throw of this barber, it needs not a
prophetic eye to see the day when it will he
filled with California liners seeking homeward
freight.
"Once taken possession of, either forcibly or
by purchase, the State of Sonora will give such
evidences of her agricultural and mineral
wealth as will put California and Australia to
the blush. and the capital and emigration
which will at once be attracted will promise
such future as is little dreamed Of"