Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-09-13

rid zones, and makes of every yard and
garden and orchard one immense eastern
greenhouse to observe a commerce and
an industry that supply every comfort,
minister to every taste and fill the shops
with every article of convenience and lux
ury that New York or Paris can boast of,
and at prices as cheap as those of the for
mer city to-day to find homes more lux.
urlous than are often seen in the eastern
states, and to be challenged unsuccessfully
to name the city where ladies dress more
magniicently than those of San Francisco
None of this surprises me. had large
ideas of the Pacific colst and its develop
ment; and long ago gave up being sur
priSed at any victories of the American
mind and hand over raw American matter
Still, Nevada and California, with towns
and cities of two to fifteen years growth,
yet today all full-armed in the elements
Of civilization, wauton with the luxuries
of the senses, rich in the social amenities,
supplied with churches and schools and
libraries, even affecting high art, are won
derful illustrations of the rapidity and
ease with which our people organize socie-
city and state, and surround themselves
with all the comforts ard luxurcs of
metropolitan life. The history of the
whole world elsewhere offers no parallels
to these.
At present, and in comparison with the
| flush times of their first creative years,
the states and towns of the Pacific coast
are but slowly growing, and business is
dull. Many mining towns are indeed
falling back, if not approaching desertion.
Founded on temporary interests the
sands of their streams all washed out
they are deserted for fresher fields But
new interests, as agriculture and manu-
factures, and new and closer modes of cx
tracing their mineral wealth will sooner
or later revive most of these; in some in
stances are already beginning to do So
The general comparative dullness is but a
natural and temporary reaction from a
hot and stimulated development. Our
great war and its interests have occupied
the nations life, ard thought, aud cen
tered it in the East, absorbing its capital
aud Offering rare opportunities Also for
new industries and speculation. Califor
MIA was too far away to share in this stim,
illus; aud by rejecting the national cur
rency that was one of her clements she
has even denied herself the benefit
of it's overflow. But by drouth in her
agriculture, by losses in many Of her min
ing operations, by the cessation Of the
heavy tide Of emigration, and by the mar.
row policy of her bankers and capitalists
she has been gathering valuable lessons Of
experience; she has learned both how tc
, farm and mine she has come to appreci
ate her great want of capital and labor
and she is in fine condition to receive and
, accept the new stimulus that is already
drawing out of her own more economical
, aud intelligent prosperity and in new
tide of means and men from the East
Farmers may be poor country merchants
may be bankrupt; gambling may belat ,
2 low ebb in the mining towns: labor com
paratively low, and pan washings unre
numerative; San Francisco brokers anC
and bankers may as is charged, have suck
e ed the life ont of the interior here, in
deed, may rents be falling and houses un
occupied, but the real industries Of th
G Pacific coast were never more productiV
and promising than now-never so mucl
e in any previous year, of hay and grain
of vegetables and fruit, of gold and silve
. brought out of the ground, as is and vii
be in this year of 1865. This is the tes
T. and promise Of prosperity; and this yea
will date renewal of life and growth t
D California and its adjacent states-not s.
. hot and feverish and rabid as that of A.
y and 80 and $50 and go, but stronl
D enough to satisfy just ambition, and sur
b enough to encourage permanent invest
!. ments and permanent citlzenship--th
t real foundations and the security of
t state. 'r-
!. To 60 back on the record of our jOurn
d ey: Our last day in Nevada was passe
i among its pleasantest and richest valley
under the shadow of the fertilizing stream
S from their springs and SHOWS. Here, i
1t the valleys of the lurckce, of Washo
}. and of Carson, is the garden of tEc state
# here we're few agricultural settlers,
Q, years ago, colonists from Utah, to whic
n all this region was originally attached
re Now, the Mormons are displaced by
Sc more vigorous and varied population, pro-
d porous with farming, with lumberin
C. among the rich pines of the Sierras an
with quartz mills, seeking proximity he'
ID to wood and water and fed by the mine
over the hills in Virginia and Gold Hill
W Skirting the hillsides from Virginia
r; carly morning, on a capital toll road, th
is ran from mountain to mountain on cor
er mon level we breakfasted at Stoambo
l. c,.;,os xyhere the Dhepomenon of an III