Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-16
THIS PLACE AND THAT.

There are q great many persons intend
ing to return East this Fall and Winter,
and considerable numbers have already
gone. Perhaps half the number who re-
turn, go back with the intention of re-
naming; the rest for a temporary sojourn
in the land of their childhood. The cause
which leads many to go East is the false
idea that more money is to be made there
than here, and especially does that belief
prevail in regard to the Southern States.
Nothing is more erroneous. Business is
not so brisk in the States, North or South,
as it was a year ago. There is not so
much being done; and there are more
men to do it. In the Southern States
there are no crops nor money, and hardly
food for the people. 1t will take time to
put things into proper order there; and
until political and business. matters are
settled, and q good crop is raised, it will
be no section for a man to go who wants to
get rich. C%alifornians and Nevadians are
used to grand races to see who will get
possession first. 1t is not required for the
Southern States. Extensions as valuable
and cheap as original locations will be
offered for years to come. If it were a
desirable place to make a home, or make
money at present, there would not have
been seen the spectacle of IN immense,
unparalleled emigration pouring out from
every nook and corner Of the South, and
rolling onward towards the mineral
region of the West, as there has been
witnessed on the Plains this Summer.
There are two classes OF persons who can
carry out their designs without great dis
appointment, and they are those who in
tend to return for a visit, and those who
intend to return and settle down on some
little farm for life, free from the excite
ments and strifes Of business occupations,
with no other aim in view than making an
honest living. Those who are intending
to 90 to the States for the purpose of in-
creasing their chances for making money,
had better give up the idea. They are be-
hind the times. The days Of shoddy
making are no more. Petrolia is an old
thing. And half q million of able bodied
men have broken ranks, and have filled or
are ready to fill, every place of profit or
honor, from holding the plough to filling
the Chief Magistrates Chair. 1t is the
wrong time for the m~oney-getter to 80
| East. The flush times there were when
the canno were booming, when guns and
horses and food and clothing were re-
quired for more than a half million Of men,
who now are each producing for them
selves. The impression that now is the
time to leave this western coast, this land
of four and six hard dollars per day, and
seek a fortune in the East, is wrong. 1t
is now too late for shoddy speculations,
and yet too early for steady, industrious,
honest and profitable occupations. Let
any one who thinks Of adventuring in the
East, ponder well the subject before he
buys his ticket. 1t is a matter easy to be
seen, if reason is allowed her sway. 1t is
important, both to the country and the
individual. Industrious men are wanted
here. They are abundant there; and
whoever goes from the Pacific to the At
lantic States, will find much greater COM
petition in every branch of business than
he expects to meet. Again we say, be-
fore you go-think.