The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-12-15
Letter from California

SAS FRANcsco, Dec. IL, SO.
EprroEs 1SpErExDESI:-I am here still at
the Orleans Hotel. find II almost unneces-
sary to use king of Pain" any longer: 1 am
now most well. The Orleans is great house,
and cheerfully recommend it to our folks, as
most of our people as well as the railroad boys
stop here .....- .----.
Money matters are not so tight as they were
here some time ago, yet it is dull in every
branch of trade; the merchants are growing,
and some failing. Cause-doing illegitimate
business on other peoples capital instead of
attending to their own branch of trade. Many
have invested in homestead and land svindles,
mines, and other speeulations, while they did
not have actual cash capital TO do their legiti-
mate business. This seems TO have been the
great fault with the greater part Of California
Tor the last two years, and can be attributed to
the want of care and an desire TO make
money too fast Here, unlike Elko, no one
knows another's business, and may have meme;
therefore, ones business is not known until in
many cases IL Is too late.
This place is laid of. so far as surveys are
concerned, to contain over four millions of
people; while II does not contain over on hun
dred and fifty thousand, out of which one
hundred Thousand are children, women, Chi
namen and bunlmers; a town altogether too
lNL DsDlIt III VINO nave
to support IL. The mines of California have
ceased to yield the amount of shining gems"
that they did IN former DAYS; the dependence
now, an unquestiOnable issue, TO wit: Califor-
MIA alone. The dependence of Oregon has
ceased In great measure, as vessels come
now from New York and elsewhere direct TO
the Columbia river; the British Possessions
are no longer inviting emigration and trade:
Alaska Is not turning out as well as was ex-
pected; the prospects of the Southern Rail-
road can no longer be regarded As doubtful:
importers are already concentrating at San
Diego and will command and keep the inland
and coast trade of Mexico: Chicago has the
trade of Montana and Eastern Idaho, Salt
Lake or Utah, and will soon have Eastern Ne
Yada- The wealth OF the mines OF Eastern
Nevada seems still doubted here; her valleys
are thought 10 be hills; her rich and arabic
lands are thought to lie barren wastes Of sage
brush mOnotony Ii is impossible to make the
people here believe that White Pine produces
ANYTHING only the lead bullion shipped to Tom
Selby; rock that comes from Cope and else
where Is looked az with lurking shoulders and
the first word said seems 20 be the password
to-wit: They send the best"' Those who
had money and those who have Joined in the
chorus that they lave been ''bilked" at White
Pine, never think for a moment that they
bllked themselves, for until they filled White
Pine with thinkers, tailors, fiddlers prostitutes
and gamblers, the Piute was the monarch Of
the surroundings. have talked with many
merchants here and have heard them saw:
We don't want the trade Of ynur country"
Well, they are not getting 1.-THE telegraph
shows that they are not getting the bullion;
hence, If II Is better to send our products
East, II certainly must be better TO get our sup
plies from there; my opinion is that so soon
Is money matters become easier here s;ru,-
gle will ensue, and either Chicago or CaIlfGr.
mia. one or the other. with difficulty will bear
OF the trophies. The word Is to California:
Be'enre! Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty"
This city is improving very much, vet |
never saw IN II 50 many houses To- let nor so
many agents 10 let them; in fact; from the
county Jail to the pnlpit, real estate agents.
Wv undrT!ul HmusoIucEts'' are Ia. order Of
the day. Humbuggery Is the ideal eagerly
sought for and readily found--tLc greater
the humhug the better the pay. Abortion.
PROSTITUTION, intuny, b.asphrmy, degradation
and insults tn Natures God. seem To I've the
waichword. God send u change in the heats
OF the people Of the country that in bovhn,d
learned tn love- Yes, | cannot HELM IL: for
here, viewing the hills the meadows, and the
placid waters, learned to love one who sleeps
IN death, Swallowed by that holy cross. On
Lone Mountain, erected to the memory Of the
one l loved. Sleep on, oh, magnet of my soul.
the day will come when thy decaving bones
Will be gathered from this polluted spot, and
in thy purity, be my wife in Heaven.
W IT II