Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-15

EFFECTS or THE DRoUGHT-SCARCTrY OF
WATER IN SANTA CRUZ COrSTY.-The Pa
iaro Times Of March 9TH, says: Present ap-
pearances indicate that, unless we have heavy
rains shortly, Santa Cruz county will suffer
both in her agricultural and manufacturing
interests. Our farmers have held off plowing
in hopes of the refreshing showers soft
ening the hardened earth. Some have put
double power to the plow, and loosened the
baked earth TO manageable form. Yet we all
want rain. The fogs which visit our valley
will render aid to the tiler OF the soil, aid
secure him against barren fields. We wi!
raise fair crops without rain-but not such AK
our farmers have been accustomed to. We
hear Of slight rains in Los Angeles, SAINTS
Barbara, and other southern counties; and
we of Pajaro may still hope for rain. Stock
is commencing to show sensihly the effects OF
this long dry SPELL \ few heavy showers
will revive its late inviting offerings, and
spread anew to our stock the nourishment OF
life. The farmers Of Paiaro valley have ever
enioyed abundant products for their labor,
and even now, we feel assured, will be amply
rewarded for their industry. Those who rails"
crops for market will receive good prices
which will be equivalent To the former heavy
crops at light prices. Without ram, our
stock and agricultural interests must suiiPf
! but not to the extent supposed. There
| seems TO be some apprehension felt among
manufacturers in Santa Cruz relative to The
! scarcity of water. Messrs. Hahn and Antho-
! nv have already notified consumers that they
| had better dig wells for themselves, ms the
water furnished by these gentlemen it Is
thought will give out. The people ale san
ouine of being able to bring SCOTS creek into
town for family use. Whether the paper
mill will continue 10 have water enough, time
will tell But so far they have more than
they need. Wehope to be able soon to chroni-
Gle operations of the powder mill in working
trim. But unless we have rain this will, pro-
badly, be postponed for time.
GoLD.-Therc are good reasons for bclcr-
ing that gold was the first metal with which
man became acquainted. It's peculiar prop
critics render it the best for the purpose Of
being worked by primitive people. Gold Is
the only metal which is found in mctalic
state, such as we see it used in the arts and
manufactures. The process Of eXtricatin4
all the other metals from the matrix or ore Is
so tedious and difficult that without gold II IL
probable yuur forefathers would have had ~
metals at all to use. We who live in this pc
riod of the worlds history can well believe
how little advancement could be made in civ
iization without metal of some kind. No"
those qualities which we recognize a< mctalic
in the highest degree are possessed by gold,
and it is thus we see, even i'll this single iu'
stance, proof Of the Creators wisdom, the
adaptation Of means TO an end. Gold. the
most easily worked Of all metals, the most
imperishable, the most brilliant and attrar.
| tive, was the first that was given 10 man.
No other metal could have served the purpose
so well as the one we find him possessed Of.
No wonder gold is typifed in the Scriptures
+, as the purcSt metal no wender that ii was
: chosen as the means lin the shape OF coin)
/ of representing the products of labor, that
! man should select what age after has proved
! tn be the most fitting thing for this purpose.
! As an assurance that the supply Of gold shall
| be adequate to our wants, this metal has been
| found in the ratio of the increase Of the hr-
man family. 1t is diituscd over the whole
/ earth, and has acted rs stimulus to man 10
/ visit regions previously uncultivated. III"
wilds of Australia and California have thus
been peopled in our day in the same way that
the Spaniards peopled South America years
ago.-SeptimWs Piessa.