Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-17
POPULATION AND ELABORATION.

summer nave peen constantly com.
planning of the exodus Of the popu.
lation Of that State in particular,
and of this coast in general, and have
assigned almost innumerable reasons for
the emigration. If the depopulation OF
California has been going on, it has not
been so in other portions of the great
mineral regions of the west. Californians
are in the habit of measuring the immi-
grafton and emigration to and from this
whole country by the arrivals M de-
partures On the steamers at San Francisco
when, in truth, they furnish no just stand
ard. The arrivals by the ocean steamers
do not outnumber those that come "the
plains across" Only think Of the I'M
mense tide that is rolling this way across
the p~rairies, this year. An operator on
the plains, when the wires were working
last week, sent word that 5000 teams had
passed his station within twenty days.
Three thousand teams! What q vast
caravan was that! How many thousand
ambitious yeomen wend their way hither-
ward, to reap in the golden harvest that is
waiting their coming in this great mineral
region of the West: How many families
com hither, too, seeking q new homer
And so it is, not for twenty days, but DUR
ing the whole long summer, a steady
stream Of honest, hard working men, just
such as come to stay and benefit the
country, is pouring along the Platte and
through the passes Of the Rock Mountains
to spread out and seek employment in the
mines of the Great Basin, and on the Pacific
slope. They do not come heralded by
long lists of arrivals in the public prints;
their numbers do not enter into the statis-
tics of the Bulletin and Alta, but their
coming is almost unknown and unnoticed
till its effect is felt in the increased pro-
duction of the country. While a vast
number of people are arriving in this
country across the plains every season.
very few return to the States that way.
Almost all who go from California, Ne
vada, Oregon, Washington and Idaho on
a visit to the " old folks at home" take
passage on the steamers from San Fran
cisco, and their departures are carefully
noted, and their names given in full, in
the Alta. The men who come out across
the plains are the strong, hardy, fearless,
working men, who come out here I'd make
a fortune, and have no idea of going East
again without one. Previous to last sea-
son the wave of emigrants seldom broke
up until it passed over the Sierras, but
last summer and this summer but q small
portion of those who cross through the
defles and passes Of the Rocky Mountains
did or will climb the SUBMITS Of the Ser
ras. They have learned that riches are
not to be found in California alone, but
that nature has hidden her richest treas
ures in the bosom Of Nevada's mountains
and in the ~forbidding recesses of those OF
her adjacent Territories, and their ranks
have therefore been broken and their
paths have diverged when first they have
reached the border Of the Great Inland
Basin. If California is losing population,
it i, because greater inducements are Of
fered to her people by her neighbors than
she can give; and if immigrants do not
come to labor in her mines, workshops
and fields as fast as her people depart, 1t
is because her branches of industry do not
offer so great inducements as do those OF
her p~eighbors. But we doubt much
whether the population of California "
falling off. That of the other Pacific
States and Territories is increasing. And
California to-day is producing as much
gold, more copper, and is furnishing food
to the population of a greater scope OF
country and q larger population than ever
before. Her workshops are being contin-
ually increased in extent and number, and
her manufactures are being increased in
extent, number and importance every day.
The "bugbear" of the Fearful decrease
in population" of California and the Pa
cifc coast, is created by a partial view Of
the subject. If the editors of the San
Francisco papers will take a look at the
Missouri, Iowa and Territorial papers,
and note what they say Of arrivals and
departures, as well as at the figures Of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, they
will write in less dolorouS strains OF the
falling of of the population Of California
and adjacent States and Territories.