The Shasta courier., 1869-11-27
F0of-IEiH Prosperity.

There are indications that the State of
California is about to commence a new
course of prosperity; that it is about to
renew its youth, aud that the good time so
long coming is about to dawn. We shall
not have the flush and the excitement of
1919, nor the plethora Of 1850; we shall
not have carnival of gambings, hang
Jugs, highway robberies, and all manner of
crime, as we had in our elevated past, but
we hope that the day of homesteads of
quiet and plenty, OF virtuous and domestic
girls, of obedient and industrious boys, of
a cessation of scandalous divorce suits. of
a depleted penitentiary and the useless GAL
lows trees, is close at hand The people
are talking about these good things, and
we trust the people will act upon them, and
act in such cordial concert that action will
become fruition.
Our press is teeming with accounts of
neglected resources, which must in few
years, with some industry, be very profita-
bic. Some Of the papers tell us there are
millions of little valleys in the foothills,
which are worth more than their weight
in gold to the farmer who shall feed COWS
there make butter and market cheese.
We believe all this, and we wonder that no
oph tries such well demonstrated Con paper)
successful experiments We know too
that our chaparral covered hills, where
slate crops out, are scanned with quartz and
that this quartz bears gold, and that among
this scanned slate, hundreds of years from
now, men will find employment and for
tunes. We have agricultural and mining
resources side by side, such as no other
country enjoys. Why are we not prosper
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We might venture to reply that farmer
does not become '.stuck after, eve use
California expression which is expressive)
those neat little valleys because to irrigate,
to raise and harvest his crops, to toll from
years end to years end ON his farm, he
finds, most generally, that he has not quite
come out even. We speak knowingly on
this subject. He has to pay out more than
his products bring in. He may cling to
such farm for years, get poorer every
year, and see his ragged progeny grown up
around him to ignorant manhood and wo-
manhood, but he does not like to do So
He had rather sell his COWS to the butcher
and hunt better dirt, in some less noun
famous region We know of such things
being done every day, and we know of
still more persons who would go if they
were able. The remedy is to give these
people market, in which they can make
a profit on what they grow Enable them
to reach city, and have something left
after paying for transportation and other
charges, and the foot-hill farms become
thing of value. At present our mines,
especially in the vicinity Of Grass Valley,
give market for our farmers hereabouts
but the farmers need wider and better
one. Then we want more mines open, more
miners at work, larger cities on the plains
and by the sea side, and cheaper and easier
transportation to all these from our foot-hill
farms. When all these things come about
our orchards will indeed bear golden fruit,
and the foot hill farmer be man of ease
and wealth. The mines will be open when
that can be done at cost less than the
value of the gold they will produce. Not
sooner. Our citizens will grow when people
come to the country, and commence making
all that the country needs Grass Valley
Union