The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-07
DECAY.

don shows only 4 vote OF Two THOUSAND
seven hundred. A few years ago Place
polled about SIX thousand. Your. peopl,
YIN have to get relief some way" This
.asome way is the thing to find out.
The wonder Il that this very apparen
dry rot has not long since &c, the PEG
pie of California to thinking Of another
political economy than tia. which hal
prevailed there for so many years. Time
vas when in this same county of Placer
there were towDs which abounded in
the elements ofprosperi'y. Auburn used
TO be one of score or two of Califor-
MIA towns that pulsated with the fever
ish incidents Of hush times" Hang
tows, Sonora, Nevada City, Downie-
vile, La Porte, OrovilIe, Shasta, Yrek.
are names abou. which are associated
"reminiscences of remarkable prosperity.
This grew up upon their wonderful
placer diggings; and when, within their
limits were concentrated activity 10
trade and all the appearances of pros
periiy which gather about such sudden
and Unusual gro1ths of business. there
came 10 each of them certain number
Of shrewd and sober traficers Who, i'm
proving the market in saiabie articles
at the time Of its best condition were
sagacious enough 10 turn themselves
into "bsnkers when the cream Of
the trade had been skinned OF. Then
these .ibsnkers." remaining yea. or
two-loog enough to exhaus, the ca
paci,ies Of their surroundings for pay
log the percentage Of usury, carefully
gathered up their big buckskin purse-
and migrated 10 San francisco, there
to help their fellows Of the Bay city to-
wiring dry the State whose exhaustion
is becoming so painfully apparent. Thi>
history. which the interior towns of
California have 10 such dreary common,
aimo., suggests that the money makers
xho thu. went OF with all their loose
c hanes must have been actuated by a
sort of Tree masonry-a common under
standing with regard to ~hst must be
done in order tina, the game of killing
the goose which laid the golden egg
might be played with an assurance OF
success.
With the working out" of the coun-
lies, the exhaustion of tie State comes
10 be mere matter Of time. Excepting
where largo orchards AMI vineyards
have been planted on the hills of red
dirt which lie over and about the gbast-
y old, abandoned digsiugs. and except
ng where enterprise has undertaken to
make the god belring quartz yield up
is treasures, the mcuntain counties of
californis aIe little better thar poverty
stricken, forsaken wastes. The melan-
holy spirit Of complete depletion seems
o reign supreme in the precincts where,
II old, the most adventurous. hardy
md intelligent. race Of gold digging
,rofiieares lived aud rioted.
Is there any treatment to apply, as
remedy to this sad diseased San Fran
isco, with i's money market strained
o tension which will only b. abatei
Then breaking comes which will
mash the narrow theories Of the dying
'c,sn,ates who have bied California to
.eath with gold basis +" ard usury,
!, 10 dsy the most helpless, desperate
city 10 the United States.
Ind there IL sits, cliuging to the causes
Z It's ruin with its fists c!euched rgairs.
be Only ;wn things which can rtsurrect
Is prosperity. ereenbacks and cheap
aho-, It's poor false bubble burst all to
ije-es 30 soou as il got tapped by the
'a~.fc Railway and the consequent
:rsrs or. eastward, ofexchaage.
Look at Sacramento, observe its
eal'h aud Increasing vigor. It's great
dTtanes have come upon it in spite eff
S cOin basis " and us dependence
pan San Francisco business principles. ,
shy? Merely because i. has been :