The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1867-03-09
ORovILLE, SATURDAY, MARCH 9th
The Future of California.


truth and Judgment, the future OF California looms
up in huge and magnificent proportions. In dis
passionatey contemplating its natural advantages
and the results which viii certainly flow from turn
ing those natural advantages to account, the mind
Is los: in wonder and admiration. First, take it's
position on the face OF the globe midway between
Europe and Asia, with climate the most health
ful and lifegiving in the world and a soil unsur-
passed for productiveness beneath which, in ex-
haustless quantity, repose nearly all the precious
metals and ores that the wants of require,
no limit be fixed to the greatness and prosper
ity which il is bound to attain. 1t is here, the
Pacific. that the Spanish adveutgrer, Ponce de
Leon, should have come to spin out the thread of
existence, instead of going to the everglades of
Florida in quest Of the ;abled river, to bathe in the
waters of which said TO inipart perpetual youth
and vigor. Here, in California, with the exception
Of very few localities, there no local causes
for disease whatever. This much the tables Of NOR
tally show. The dryness Of the atmosphere gives
elasticity to the spirits and rmness and strength
to the muscles. Nowhere upon the face of the
globe can more robust aud healthful children be
found and subject 10 fewer diseases. This much
has been remarked by all who have visited the
Pacific slope. The first generation that viii grow
up hexe will be model specimens of physical man
and womanhood, challenging comparison. What
greater inducemeni could be held those in the
Atlantic States. and in Europe, who love their off
spring and themselves 10 seek a home among Us
And when to this the teeuling earth with its mil
lions of uncultiyated acres. showing greater pro
duetive capacity for the various cereals than the
praisies Of the Western States IS added popua-
ton will flow in upon Us. 1t is only A matter OF
time and we are pleased to see that the merchants
and business of San Francisco have awakened
20 the importance of fastening this time. They
have recently formed an association for the pur-
pose OF inducing emigration by making known
the varied resources OF the State, and Offering such
aids as are compatible with their and the in
telests Of the State generally. An increase OF pop
ulation is the first thing wanted in stride TO
greatness, and then and certain market for
the products Of our soil. This we already have in
China. Europe and the Eastern States. 1t is but
recently that preference has been given in those
States and in Europe to California wheat and -four
to the articles produced in the Western States,
because of their superior quality, being dryer and
not 50 subject mould in passing through the de-
rrces of latitude. This superiority will for the
manent market, not subject to the fluctuations
from which they have heretofore suffered. Aud.
preference being given, the demand will always be
as great the supply. The grape interest of Cal
Hernia is also destined be great. Recent expert
meuts have proven that the vine hourshes quite
as well on the foothills in the valleys. The
quantity OF soil adapted to its culture is without
limit. The predictions of the soil Of California
are varied and embraces almost every article that
enters into the commerce Of the world. Her min
eral resources it IS conceded. inexhaustibe,
and not surpassed by any other country. New dis
covcres Of quartz lodes constantly being made,
aud superior modes of separating the gold from
the rock, all Of which adds to the material wealth
of the State.
Now, reader, view calmly the projected works Of
internal improvement. many of which are in
course of construction, and consider what effect
their completion will have upon the prosperity Of
the State At large. Already have magnif-
Gently equipped fleet Of steamers to run monthly
between san Francisco China and Japan. and
when the great enterprise of the age--the greatest
the grandest the world ever saw-the Central Pa
cife Railroad Is finished, the whole of the immense
trade from those countries destined for Europe,
totcn Of Ororine for, it is a sealed fact fore
gore conclusion, that the natch Flat route will
not answer the purpose. We have ROW before our
eyes a dispatch stating that snow slide entomhed
some thirty or forty Cinnamon employed On that
soute The route now being surveyed through this
place ria Beckwourths Pass, is the only practica
be way for ii. The Surveyors. who are men Of
unimpeachable yeracity, have reported that not a
fake Of snow has fallen the proposed line this
winter. Four hundred miles of the road from the
Missouri river have already been built and ninety
miles on the Pacific end. This ensures the com
pleton Of the entire line from three 10 five years,
five al the outside Then there is the Vallejo and
Marysvile road and the California and Oregon
road, which viii also pass through Ororil}e The
wo.k on the former is row progressing with yisor,
and viii he completed as far as Sacramento by tbs
close OF the approaching summer. Awake. ye de-
spending dcnizens and view the dawning prospects
OF sesr ernhryo cify Very shortly the encAaaters 5
wand viii lie drawn 1t. and dilapidated BALD
ings give place pastal residences and the streets
and suburbs, now comparatively 50 desert, viii
become throaged with human beings from an na-
fioas, imparting life and activity TO everything
sround We wish not to draw en- The oret,aEty OF
readers. Sus >0pllft 70 tue et,tF tcA>0u c&
tioud men that we have not overiTawn the pic
ture. So far we have spoken only Of enterprises
that are now being rushed 70 completion with all
possible energy oroyille lies directly in the line
of their progress. and every enc can estimate The
advantages 10 result therefreT for himself The
lowest estimate. feel assured, will be Of no TN
ding magnitude. Oroville IS destined, In short
time. 10 grow into magnificent proportions. despite
all the selfish Bds elaa policy ,hst can be brought
te bear against it. la addition TO these, are the
canal projects, north and south, the Sacramento
and San joaquin, which viii bring under ealtiva
lion millions OF acres Of the most desirable lands
ia the State. BY the charters Of those cempsHie.
the canals are required TO be o; Sufficient width
and depth 10 answer the purposes OF navigation as
well as irrigation. and 10 De completed within fys
years from the date Of the charters. The popula
ton and wealth the completion Of all these work
will introduce into the State. is almost ncalcula
bic. Were il possible for man 10 lay hinlSel
down and sleep for ten years. here in California
and awake at the end of that tiHe. in possession
his faculties, he would be as much as;onished a
the change that would be presented to bis vision