Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-09-10
Communication.
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From the Pacific Coast.

"A journey from - OackSOnVllIe, Ofc-
gOn, to Yreka, California.
ETNA, SIsKIYoU COUNTY CALIFORNIA,
! August 9th, 1874
| took the stage at Jacksonville
a few days ago for this place
the thermometer was one hundred
degrees i'll the shade, but my trav-
cling companions soon sent a chill
through my frame. Three pas
sengers besides myself-one lady
and two gentlemen--the lady
soon froze me out--she was Lee
turess Of Spiritualism and, of
course, an advocate of Free Love.
| felt free to love somebody, but
this particular lady friend of mine
had red hair, glass eye and a
cork leg. Just think of it, gentle
reader--a red headed lady with a
glass eye and a cork leg. l was
struck dumb for one hour, then l
Summoned courage to say-"wilt
thou," and she aCilted She in
troduced me to her spiritual Gt-
! fnity-I found him to be a
literal descendant of the Proph-
ct Balaam's ass. Then we had
a pig-tailed Chinaman aboard
with the inevitable opium pipe.
When we arrived at Yreka, |
bade a sorrowful adieu to my
spiritualized essence of female
loveliness, and / made a COM
parison between the lecturess
and her travelling affinity, ,to-wit:
There is no more comparison
between the Free Lovess and
her, affinity, than there is be-
tween the insignificant dried up
skin of an Egyptian Mummy
and the majestic louise on the
head of a Digger Indian. Yreka
is a town of about fifteen hum
dred inhabitants. 1t depends
chiefly on the mines for a sup
port, though there are some fine
1armingvallies adjacent. Scott's
valley where | live is twenty
five miles long and five wide.
The soil is rich. SCOTS river
flows through the whoIe.length
Of the valley, and there are some
fine farms to be seen. y rim
/ of dark, blue mountains sur
rounds the whole valley while
far away in the dim distance,
the high peaks are clad with ev-
erIasting SNOW. Pure streams
of cold water run down the
mountain sides, lending an air
| of freshness and beauty to the
majestic scene. Shasta valley is
also a fine farming country
This valley is located near the
base of Shata Brette, and lone
lily peak-the highest on the Pa
cific Coast. 1t stands alone in
majesty and grandeur; its sum-
nit snow and ice; its sides be-
low the snow line covered with
an evergreen forest through
which the sparkling streams
flash in the beams of the yellow
sunlight. What beauty in the
eternal mountains OF the Pa
cifc! Would that l could des-
cribe them as they are. The
, Northern portion Of this State
| is an excellent place for a Ten
nesseean to immigrate to. Good
land, excellent water, plenty of
timber, IL good market and a
healthy climate. What more
does any one want? Society
anywhere is just what the peO-
/ pie make. Our society is very
good in this county (Siskiyou)
and the people are full of ener-
gy. If any of my old friends
wish to seek new homes in the
west they can do no better than
to settle down in either SiskiyOu
or Shasta counties, California.
A man who comes out here and
goes to work will make more
money in one year than he can
make in the old settled States
in five. Some of the counties
are in debt, contracted while the
State was run by Radical feGs
or There's. When they went
out of office they left a mark a:
black as black mark made OF
a black board at midnight by ;
black negro. Every one that
see now looks like the hind legl
of bad luck.
They are vast strupendous whirligig
Dancing to the Devils jig.
The Radical leaders of the =
S., in showing their platform +
the people, show a vast pile 0.
nothing and they have no plac
: to put it in.