Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-09-21
SACRAMENTO, September is, 1870.
Routes 10 Sacramento.

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On Thursday last, in company with
some four hundred others on pleasure
and business intent, I left the City of
Sandhills for the purpose Of visiting
the State Fair at Sacramento. There
are now three ways of reaching the
Capital. You can either take the
river steamer direct, or cross over to
Oakland and 60 from thence by the
Central Pacific, Or. take the boat for
Vallejo and from that place proceed
via the California Pacific Railroad
and as all the routes are equally dreary
and uninteresting, the last, rs being
the quickest, Is the n generally pat
ronized. 1E ~ garEE ..ssa
Vallejo.
Vallejo is about all hour and q halls
steaming from San Francisco, and n
place of much greater pretensions than
Its prospects warrant. On the strength
Of having built the only grain elevator
in the State, 1t asplres to be considered
of some Importance, and even INDUCES
in wild dreams Of wrestling the conf
mercial supremacy of the coast from
the Bay City. 1t Is a forlorn, bleak
looking village. scattered owe a great
deal Of ground. with about three
houses to the acre, and but for a good
water front, would never have been
heard of. From Vallejo to Sacra-
mento-a distance Of about fifty miles
the cars run through 4 flat, treeless
country, showing few houses and little
signs Of cultivation. The soil appears
to be the tenacious black clay known
as adobe, and Is cracked into huge war
maps by the burning sun, but notwith-
It's apparent irreclaimable barrenness,
Is capable of producing rs good crops
as ever gladdened the eyes OF u farmer.
-Gg.F sncrnmcnte.
know that l ought to abuse Sacra-
mento, and write about Its vast stretch
of arid plains, its insufTerable heat, Its
vicious mosquitoes, and its muddy, I'M
drinkablc water. 1t is popular to run
down the Capital, and popularity pays,
but apart from being indifferent to the
,..,.ru,o.i,. 7 confeus m como small
latter motive, l Confess " so'''
liking for the metropolitan city. l like
its wealth of se%mi-tropical foliage, and
its shady trees, that line each side OF
tho smaller streets. l like Its quiet
somnolency, and general appearance
OF tahlnS tm,m unb,nshinr ok.
tortious' It's hotel brigandism, anil its
guileless Samaritanism to the moneyed
stranger: Sacramento swinales o
80 openly cr nv" two:s cxncrience Of San
Francisco's secret style of doing the
thing, It is quite refreshing TO meet
with undisguised Imposition. II there
Is 10 resisting the plea Of tho smiling
Sacramentan: 1--WE must put IL on
just n leetle during Fair time So Tor
these reasons, l. Will write notning
against the city, but may remark, what
every one already knows, tiat IL Is
beautiful in It's situation, perfect III us
mathematical arrangement OF streets,
and only wants q background oil mills
to make 1t rs picturesque as all artists
ideal.
Hotel E1tortions.
San FrancIscans take but little inter-
est i'll the State tair. lhey ook upon
it rs a moncy-making scheme manaSeu
entirely for the benefit OF their capitoi-
ian cousins, and solely intended 10
help them over the dull times between
the adjournment of n Legislature
and the meeting of another. The ex-
tortions to which they have been sub
iected in times mast also rankle in their
,ooo,Ioct;o, CO that Socramentans
"
nave iong s.lice .G"seu W u
large llhuX rom INC goIl'nSrc.a III
tropoiis' lh,s o'u poiiyy VI, eNoiurE
ant charges has certaiisiy uoie nia ,i,n
to keep VISITORS away put wnilc tne
residents begin 10 see tlat tney iafg
In q measure klliea the goose thaI iulu
their annual golden egs, tney maze Tmtc
but small attempt at reformation. inIS
year two OF tho motel proPrlctons
signed an agreement only 10 ask 9rul-
nary rates from guests, Il OUTSIDE OF
this conscientious couple the PIC pian
OF treoie Prices ior e aHhSroS ~
~
,, the n,nu,u
was neia III i"rSe ot'oN '''s
called the fav,llon, Ine s'o'"'u i.1 w
being supposedly SET "pals 10. VIC onI
play OF agricuitur"i nh"''nt''5' YIN
the upper n for agricultural produce;
but all that was exhibited of either
could have been nut in such a very
su,or, sn.co ,h,t ono glance Il sufficient
sn ~ .n spsI ,be visitor that that the term
:. Snrin;,,tnr,I Enirn IL n misnomer.
Tbe principai' attraction appeared to
be the great lottery wheel, and our
$1,000 hearsc of home manufacture,
ABOUT wn'cn ooa.n";es oe d.i,abt tb.,
it Is said he teiegraphed a half column
description of it to his paper. A COLI
tinuni throng gathered romn ob, r uies
;mac",,itv If the one and the gLastiy
oargconsness of the other, while the
fohIcs devoted To the different varieties