Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-05-05

take u Ulp To Gan Itai"Si o'Si pAop"''y t'~
shortest steam railroad in the United States
three miles in length The passenger car
(and they have only one) is built inside pre-
cisely like very large horse railroad car.
There lisa small baggage and express car and
a mite (not a mighty of an engine. After
pleasant ride of ID minutes we are landed in
the village, which nestles snugly among the
great hills and mountains of the Coast Range.
1t is delightful spot, and though only 10
miles from San Francisco, the climate is very
much finer than there. The disagreeabie fog
and wind of the city is rarely If ever felt
The town is a favorite resort tor consumptives,
who are glad to escape from the too stlmulat-
ing air of San Francisco. The village con
tains population of two or three thousand
1t has many fine residences-all of wood
and among them that of Cen Rosecrans, who
you will recollect would not accept the Dem
ocratic nomination for Governor of Ohio, be-
cause he had private business to attend to in
California He is understood to be interested
with Fremont and others in the Southern
Pacific Railroad. Within few years San
Rafael has become the residence OF quite
number of the business men of San Francisco,
and land is held at very high figures, although
too high for the best interests of the people,
which is true pretty generally of the whole
populated portion of the State. High priced
land will retard the progress of California
from ten to twenty years. There is probably
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coast than any where else in the United States,
and all lands which are any ways valuable
are held at enormously high figures, at least
twice as high in gold as they arc in Illinois
and the other equally fertile Western States
in currency. California can hardly expect
emigration to flow in from abroad as rapidly
as it should while this state of things lasts.
What she needs more than anything else is a
portion of the hardy Germans and Scandina-
VANS who are pouring so rapidly into our
Northwestern States where lands-better the
sun never shone on--can be got almost for
the asking. California cannot expect to en-
tce these people across 2000 miles to her
shores while the present high prices exist
She must learn the lesson taught by what we
see going on every day East. She is suffer
ing now terribly from her stubborness in OK
Guiding greenbacks, emigration and capital.
She has not half enough money to carry on
her business; she has, comparatively speak
ing no Railroads; she has not tenth part of
the population that she should have. Forty
times larger than Massachusetts, she has not
over half the population, nor tenth part Of
the miles of Railroad of that little common
wealth. MISUNDERSTANDING all these
temporary drawbacks-she is mighty young
giant, who is but just beginning to realize her
immense strength. She has mountain ranges
for her back bone, outlying mountain spurs
for her ribs, and that backbone and those ribs
cover and protect heart Of gold and lungs
of silver and coal, and are themselves
strengthened and held together by sinews of
steel and granite. Her whole being throbs
with latent power and hidden fire RACES be-
meath far down in her bowels. Her whole
frame is shaken with the mighty contending
forces of nature. The air she breathes is SO
pure that the lightning rarely quvers through
it. An intense life and vitality animates
everything and compels everybody to be at
work-to move or be crushed beneath the on
surging tide California must be a mighty
State, and San Francisco must be great city.
Slowly but surely she is adapting herself to
the new state of affairs brought about by the
conquering of the rebellious South and the
defiant Rocky mountains. With the telegraph
and the locomotive comes an humiliation OF
both time and space, and for the first time
California seems a part of us-one of the
States-and not an isolated province which
could only be reached by month of toilsome
journeying across vast trackless plains or
through the treacherous seas. Hail Califor-
MIA Hail San Francisco the glory and pride
of the Pacific!
PROFESSIONALLY"