Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-05-11
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) red of them did SO with the intention of max
ing that new country his home but nearly al
hoped and expected that with few years tol
'Jor business occupation they would be enabled
Ito realize fortune or a competency, witt
which to return to their old homes IN th'
States, there to pass the remainder of theil
lives. Those early pioneers became more re
solved in their determination to return to theil
old homes, and not to permanently locate ii
/ the new country, after having seen it and pass
ed months in it. They believed it to be Of
value only in gold mining point of view; they
were confident that the soil was sterile, hope.
lessly barren, and could never be brought un.
der profitable cultivation; that the whole OF
California was little better than desert and a
wilderness, to never become reduced to the
healthful or profitable uses of man, save in the
single matter of its vast gold deposits and
therefore viewed life spent there as SO many
months or years of voluntary exile, in which
to make and hoard the fortune which was to
maintain them In easy luxury or solid comfort
after their return to their former abodes across
the continent And the delivers in the mines
in the early years also made of San. Francisco
1.-The fast, wonderful. great city of tents and
frame buildings, of fine saloons and open gam
bling houses, of unrestrained license and wild
sport in every way--their haven of pleasure
BILE retreat during the long rainy season, SO as
to escape the hardships of a life in the interior
wild mining regions. Many toiled from Spring
till late Fall, and then with goodly purses left
to pass the winter in San Francisco, to return
penniless the ensuing Spring. They believed
it next to impossible to winter in the mines.
But on their return to their diggings after the
seasons costly sojourn in San Francisco, they
learned that very many of their fellow miners
had passed the rainy season right in the camp;
that they had enjoyed good health, got along
very comfortably, and saved good deal of
money by doing so. And finally, miners ceased
to regard their diggings or camp only as
place to toll in, and San Francisco as the only
place to pass idle time, or to go pleaspring in
they became content in their own cabins for
the winter when work in their claims had to |
Be suspended and gradually the conviction
vas practically forced upon them that they
could do better right where they were, in work
or in play, even for a lifetime, than they could
n any other place in the world.
Agriculture was tried in the great valleys,
N the hills, everywhere nearly--even in the
leart of mining camps-and most gratifying
PRODUCTS, excellent in quality, prolific in yield,
,heered the tiller's labors. Vegetables, escu-
ents of all kinds, the choicest of fruits, nearly
il the wholesome, priced groWths of the earth
or the. use of man, became things of every
lay plenty, and in the cities, on the farms, in
he mines, men no longer talked of g return
ng home "--meaning to the homes they had
sft,-but they had changed their minds
through the logic of circumstances, and said,
ontentedly, that they were at home. Many
Fho did go back to the old States, there to
ass the remainder of their lives, and who had
orttlnes at their disposal, came back to Cali
ornia, firmly resolved to make their home for
upon this Pacific coast.
Really, ever since those early days of Cali
'rnia, the history of other gold diggings upon
le coast has BEEN in the phase write about,
milar to that we have briefly mentioned of
lat State When Washoe was discovered to
9 rich in the precious metals, thousands rush.
there from California and the East, there !
, make their fortune in a short time, and then
} return to California or the East to enjoy
leir wealth 1t was not until the people off
california and of Nevada resolved to cease to
'0k upon their former residences in the old t
tates as their homes, and to make their homes
here they were, that those two States, espe- J
ally California, began to prosper and grow Fl
nd become substantial in every branch of Q
'ade commerce and business, in general s
ay. s. it
Idaho has the history and example of Cali
rnia before her, and our people ought to
roft therefrom. The Territory possesses as i
ch, broad, extensive and exhaustless mines :
ttAere are in California There are hun =
reds of thousands of acres of rich arabic land, B;
hich need only culture to yield abundantly. i
er rivers and creeks, and mountain and val +
y brooks, give an abundant supply of pure good lg
alter for every purpose. Her position is