Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-27
LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO
From a sojourning Base Ranger.l
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Francisco from the time the first ten
of the American emigrant vas pitched
on the shores Of her bay in lS47, to the
present time. Then the place she now
occupies was, il not a wilderness, a
semi barbarous waste, with inhabitants
but little more cultivated than the hills
and valleys around them, with 10 pur-
suits save those of the wild trapper Of
the Rocky Mountains, or early hunt
srs of the western wilds.
The pursuits Of the swarthy sons OF
the soil were those of the seiri. civilized
red man, only hunting and fishing.
say and except such abortive attempts
at cultivation As produced the melon,
the squash or other almost spontane-
Gus fruits, and barely enough OF these
10 season The dish OF meat or game that
the lasso or rifle furnished. Almost u
4 moments notice, as it we're, in less
than thirty years. behold the changed!
Where the Mexican hunter lassned the
wild bull and COW for the sake of their
hides alone, and careered his sieed over
the sand hills in vain wanlonness. now
long streets extend their goo6ly pro-
portions, and on either side we'll
stocked stores display the products of
every CLINE to CRAFTY the luxurious
taste of the pasSer-by, who may have
the means and will to intel and pur.
cha.e.
Summaries, where the arts are dis
.eminated, can he found in every quar-
ter. and the houses of God tower
heavenward in their majesty. from
whose sanctuary may be heard nightly
the sound of prayer and the pealing
anthem, as the devotees of some faith
pour forth their praises to the supreme
Being Yet, on the spot where these
sand, t~wenty-six years ago, the howl
Of the famiShed wolf or the yelping of
the cayote alone disturbed the silencp
of the night.
Her hay, where a few years since n
solitary whale ship might occasionally
anchor for woOd or water, II trader in
hides and tallow, or the canoe of n
Mexican or Indian in pursuit Of water
fowl or fish, were the only crafts that
dotted it, surface, now bears the ships
OF every nation of earth. laden with the
manufactures or fruits of far-otf lands.
brought hither to he exchanged for the
| kOlud anu SliNtT nItn HOWS mo nfT zap
daily from the hills and r~avines of the
interior, and from the State of Nevada.
Row upon row Of wharves, grooming
with warehouses;, run far GU into what
was the bay in 1919, and where Mort
goInery street and principal business
houses o proudly erect their heads.
vas then a sandy beach, but a few
yards removed from high water mark
See what Anglo-Saxon progress has
effected here. Had the native lords OF
the soil remained in possession, would
a Francisco now sit enthroned o n
her seven hills, like ancient Rome, dis
persing her wealth to the most distant
points of the globe, and creating a new
era in history? Not so; indeed the in
tellect and enterprise of all lands made
her what she is, and who may pierce
the dim vista of futurity and see what
she may vet become.
With able and honest men to sit in
her councils and direct her course.
there is nothing she may not accom-.
pliSh within The next fifty years.
Behold her to day with u population
Of two hundred and fifty thousand
souls and her age within thirty years;
yet, not II particle of the germ OF her
rise and progress has diminished,
hut, OH the contrary, it rather increases
from aav to day, and science, system,
energy and skill are each in turn.
brought into action in the develc pment
of her resources here, as we'll as Ia the
interior.
In the city and vicinity manufacture
ers of all kinds are in successful Oper-
alton, from the coinageof the almighty
dollar down to the making of a tin
cup that costs ten cents.
The higher branches Of art have a
cherished abiding place here; and the
tlrama, whose inti uences At once in
struct the mind and chasten the spirit.
has established for itself many proud
temples that will compare tavOrably
with those of Europe and confess no
inferiority to their sister dOmes in the
Atlantic States.
Music, whose strains, COngreve as
serted, has charms to soOthe the saw.
age breast, claims a position, and has
secured It, for IL there not AN Italian
Opera House, a Music Hall, a German
Society, and others? and each
of these add their quota to the
enjoyments and refinements of
civilized life. Nor. on these alone
do l predicate my theOry of this
city's future magnituds; lar from it; il
is to her natural position l would as
sign the cause, and nom can deny that
my basis for a structure Of greatness in
broader than Rome ever had in her
palmiest days, or the city Of the Con-
s%tantines, ere the efhnIinacy of Alexis
Commenus opened it's gates to the
warlike and enterprising Moslems.
She has in the first place a climate that
even Sunny Italy can not surpass.
and in the valleys beyond, that stretch
away for miles and miles, there is a
soil of such productiveness that every
fruit known to tropical or temperate
zones, as we'll as plants and roots fit
ting for the food OF nan or animals,
will reward the labor of the agricul-
t~nralist with such a bountiful crop
that the fabulous cornucop,a of the
valleys Of Thrace will become n real
ity. Before her lies a hay, where the
shipping of the world might ride at
anchor, without one ship getting
athwar. her hawser; and. finally, the