Litchfield enquirer., 1865-06-01

,-,.. .ha rain storm could not be repaired, s.s sn tho dry season 1t did not need 1t. This rs.s,n and its condition was one of the bless l IT., of aA much aayoreds clime.1 In crossing Inc 1sth:nus the bamboo huts, with coarse .thatched covering and wholly open at the sides. costs even less labor than the cottage ofmy friend.
 s4s4And again, in the matter of wages, and the 1 gnoor man. that fiscondition here was so much a hs,.sr yri I Iscannots see it. If his wages are more. his expenses and the cost of living make .uap the difference, and to-day question much ;fb;s condition is not better at the east Wages hsre.to.day, all things considered, are no better-he does save. up as much. They will tell you--there he is paid in greenbacks. here in gold. True, but his expenses are in gold. and if he can save nothing, wherein is he any better! Farm laborers and mechanics work more hours, and perform much more la bor here than at the east. Master mechanics 50 will not hire new corners if they can get old s ones. A farm hand in the country IS expected to feed and harness his team before break [ fast, eat by candle light, and be in the field blowing by daylight, and work as long as he can sse They will tell you we want more !. muscle and less brain in California-more tillers and laborers.g There are to-day more men out of work, looking for employment, than can be found in any eastern city of the same size, and the same will apply to the country.
 Again, they will boast of their climate and hills and soils for stock raising purposes but reader, did you ever hear Californian say that it was worth little or nothing after being raised, and that it never could be, from the fact that it can never be cured for export.- Pork, for immediate use, they can salt and smoke, but they cannot pickle meats in this cline. t
 For dairy purposes the coast ranches are the most valuable, but with butter frem forty cents to one dollar per pound, their bes: dali ries average only forty dollars per head or thereabouts, if am correctly informed. Thou sands of packages of butter are this season brought from New York.
 There is not one foot of lumber on this coast fit to make a whip-handle, hoe-handle, rake, axe-helve or to make or repair an agricul- tural implement. ..
 There are climatic influences that can to 8 certain extent be guarded against, but not all For instance, one ranchere, out of twenty-five thousand head of cattle, has less than two thousand living; the rest have per- 70 ished from actual starvation. From San Fran cisco south, two thirds of all the cattle and sheep have died this last season; northward not 50 many-no feed, and if there was feed, no water. zs
 Of over three thousand mining companies and associations, formed within the last two years, only some four or five are dividend paying concerns.e Of over seven thousand mining claims registered, not more than one hundred are probably being proftably worked. These simple facts are stated to dispel the - illusion that aU who come to this State make wealth rapidly. There are greater vicissi- tudes here than the world has ever elsewhere seen.
 In Sinibad the Sailor we read of certain island, the loadstone of which was so strong as not only to attract vessels to it from long distance, but when near, to draw the iron \ bolts from the wood, and the shores of this is island were heaped with the wrecked remains M of treasures, of mariners, and of yesels. But s5 on this shore was stronger magnetic talis- , man, drawing men of all nationalities, and from all climes-from the utmost boundaries, aa 1t were, to revsl on its gold, and though many came brass mounted and copper fastened yet they no sooner touched this coast than they fell to pieces like vessels of potters clay. Years ago, in the early settlement of Califor
 pia, it was Q common remark at the east, that 90 soon as man reached this coast some
 social or climatic influence had an instantape
 ous and demoralizing influence upon him.
 Certain it is, there have been more mora ~ wrecks here than is to be found elsewhere ir !, the histoey of the human race. Better mel you will nowhere find than are to be fount on this coast, and reform for the better i! slowly progressing But the mantle of charity
 is here broader and wider, and will coyel
 more of the frailties and shortcomings of hu
 maniiY than is elsewhere found. If this be {
 virtue, it will cover in it's extent a multitud'
 of sins
 N6~ John Gray and Harry Lyon were twt
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