The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-04-01
A RUSHING AGE.


yet past the meridian of mans allotted
threescore and ten, many of US lool
back with profound astonishment at tn
progress and achievements, made with
in our n emory, BY the arts, the sciences
discovery, capital. and last, but no
least, almighty labor! We are not very
gray, and yet we well remember when
since our years Of majority, Prof. Morse
trained and broke in," to immense
usefulness, the subtle element which
Franklin first induced to give his race 4
i" friendly grasp We we'll recollect
with what scep,ical derision and
laughter, the proposition: to both write
and transport our thoughts, by means
Of electricity, harnsssed to poles, iu
sulators, wires and batteries, was met
1t was paralleled only by the scorn
heaped upon Fulton, when attempting
to " steamboat" the world! We hold
in green memory the time when men
who had business calls from the Empire
State and east Of there, or from New
Orleans to ST. Louis, or vice versa,
would " settle up" their fiscal affairs,
make their "last wills and testaments,'
call in their relatives and neighbors,
and bid them solemn and long adieu,
in view of the fact that their absence
must be long, possibly forever! We
have not lost from memory's pages the
time when America had no " iron
horse" and even a four horse coach
attracted more attention, than does
now four horse thea'er or horse opera.
We bear freshly in mind when We
caught the" California gold fever" in
March 1870, told our " sweetheart" We
were going the Plains across" made
her Sigh, aud he- us not to do it, for
fear the Injins would &c, our scalp. We
sac when We completed the " Pilgrims
Progress from Pike to the Pacific, in
November 1919, tina: up to that time,
California had been under greaser and
grizzly rule that the land which now
d" flows with milk and honey" end
golden sands, had received no fruc,ify-
ing and progressive touch from the
Yankees eleetrifying hand. On thai
trip, We crossed Nevada, froEa East to
West, and thought her territory but she
fruitfufness, sars of Digger, of the
lowest grade, grasshepper., crickets,
lend variety 10 the group OF productions.
Since then we have seen the greaser
and grizzly fude away before the mighty
tide of Yankee immigration we have
seen the plains and mountain oases of
California and Nevada, touched by the
magic hand of rhe husbandnan, send
forth their unparalleled productions of
cereals, fruits and grapes ; we have seen
the ravines, gnlches, flats mountains and |
rivers of California, open their treas
nries and pour their millions into the
lap of commerce we have seen
he rock ribbed mountains of Nevada,
pierced by the mighty pick and crow,
send tons of silver forth to swell the
true circulating medium of the world,
md lend substantial aid in the needed
-e.uin to specie payment" We have
'een, in the metropolis OF the Pacific,
he western end of the lightning rail,
way, stretched thence through the briny
ieep and across a continent, uniting,
rot New York and San Francisco, but
he Old nad New World! We have
cen the Iron horse. meandering, With
teamy snor, aud red-hot hoof, the
ALLEYS and mountains of the Pacific
slope, and feel the earth tremble with
lis tread as his approaches westward,
rom " the land Of steady habits" ,
Within the last thirty years, a perfect
etwork Of railways has been made to
rarerss the olden States telegraph
tues stretch hither Ed thither trade I
nd commerce i" spread out their hnnds
ike seas, and grasp in all shs shore :"