The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-29
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.

II those venerable pioneers whose
memory is cherished with 50 much rev
erencc, had searched the world over they
could not have selected worse site for
a city than San Francisco. Built in n
sandy Peninsula without Il nature plant
cd tree to adorn it, exposed to the cold,
foggv winds forever blowing from the
ocean, it has not one single good ma
tural feature to recommend it. Neglect
ing the instinct that directs men to pitch
their camps in pleasant places, these
pioneers selected the most dreary spot
they could find, and went in vigorously
TO make decent habitation TOR the
Queen of the Pacific
Artistically speaking san Francisco
is not a success. Baron Hausmon with
the Partisan treasury to back him, could
not make it beautiful, much more pic
turesdue, vet ever since its settlement,
improvements have been made that are
fast reieeming it from uginess. Win
ter and Summer hundreds Of men are
engaged by property owners to remove
the sandhills and dump them in the
bay, hills are being cut down, ravines
filled up The desolate waste of sandy
suburb is gradually built upon, and
even few struggling blades Of grass now
meet the eve OF the careful searcher.
But it is in the business portion of the
CITY that the most noticeable improve
ments are taking place. Streets are
widened, good Nicholson, pavements laid,
grades reduced, new avenues opened,
and in fact everything done that can be
to make the Golden City presentable.
All new buildings are put up with spe-
cial precaution, thoroughly braced, and
girded with iron to render them earth
quake proof As no one will tenant
ANYTHING higher than three stories, the
blocks recently erected don't tower
above that. On Market street, the City
Fathers have managed to get hold OF a
disused cemetery, three quar'e of an
acre, which they are converting into a
park. The Legislature petitioned Con-
gress for portion of the Military Res
ervation to be applied to the same pur-
pose, and altogether, if the shades
of pioneers do ever visit the glimpses
of the moon, they will find some diff
Guilty in locating the scenes of their past
homicides, for all the landmarks and
sandmarks of early days have been
altered.
CAIIFoRNIANs CAN T TAKE MUCH CREDIT
TO THEMSELVES FOR BEING ESTERPRIs-
ING AGRICULTURIsTs.
With but one large city in the State,
and any quantity of land we'll adapted
for dairy purposes, We imported last
wear one million dollars worth of but
ter. This fact appears strange when
we consider the advantages this climate
gives us over Eastern producers, the
eomparatively small number of inhab-
itants to supply, and the great area
available for stock But our people
don't take kindly to what they call
"slow pursuits They would much
rather run after every mining excite
ment and stand one chance in ten thou
sand of making a fortune than settle
quietly down on tract of land, and &C
cumulate money with a slow certainty.
Eggs from Salt Lake, cheese from
Orange county, n Y, pork from Chi
cago, are all ticketed in the markets,
and then people wonder why money is
so scarce, and times so hard, and con-
veniently ascrihe it all to the China