, 1877-03-28
Consolidated Virginia Promises to Dis
appoint The Cronkers OF Cali.
fornta Street.
An Explanation Of Recent Eseuls that VIII gs
kewa 10 Many nisinEermed Easts
erD Readers.
The Great Possessions Of ito Bonansa Firm
in Virginia City and San
Francisco.
What It Costs to Run = Mine.


bcem patterned after French Landscape, while |
tic warm, balny air, ludcn with the fragrant
t,erfumoo Of the sea aud the sprfngirg vegetation,
nre attractions wholly Irresistible. Tilcnce f'Y Fa!l
through the broad, fertile Valley OF tho SaeFa-
mento, over The rugged Stcrrast and along the
WazlIue range, aud you ltavo more VI the bcnu- |
titul and sublime In Nature In the given spatc,
believe. than ran be fouud clscwheru on the |
globe. And when you layc reached this Pic
nolnenal town. clineing fast halfway up the
steep ASCENT Ut Muunt Davidson, you haze !
attained the ncnc Of the picturesque. hut |
Virginia scenery Is not The uniy thing
hers that Is picturesque. licr moralk, tier
energy, l,cr wealth, are equally grand in
their separate and several why's. Here Is city
OF TO- 000 inhabitants tersaced Upon the eastern
slope Of Mount Davidson, 5000 feet above the
level Ut the sea. which, like Chicago. lost three
quarters Of her business and residence houses
by fire little mora than n year ago, and which,
witt, Chcago-like cncrgy, to-day prcfeuts Il
cou.paet front Ut substantial houses aiong al!
Its streets, with scarcely lrcak to show where
tho old tlre.iienl onco held Ills rcvcia. Some
thing Hike slD,000,000 worth Of property was re-
luecd to ashcs, to offset whicl, there was but
$4,000 of insurarcc. But to~<lay the city Is
better built than before tho great eondlgrat!ou.
:, ,,,,,,u. ,,,n,,, to,rn IN foct o,vcs al, 1,cr
wealth, prosperity, and moral oGlloulty, too, to
the almost unprecedented richness Of llcr MIN
erals, for sc ]!as no agricultural ur urn,anuiastur-
tng interests and, consequently, ITO commerce,
which must Eastern cities depend for an exist
cucc. Upper Virginia depends on Lower Vlr-
Cinla, hundreds Of feet below In tllr bowels Of
The mountain. Nor /, this nll that depends on
thIa subterrancnn town. II Is The treasury Of
tho Pacific eo..t. Milllonaires " ~ hundred
q,1ns,x: 1 uT Xxi. II tus trn,ic San Fra,lsss, liz
LILLE, ~, one m Inn somtn.,,1 ,.aratai II y1
inH"is ti,antrns oni nl,hIjr Imii.linvx ",nn,,,
ths la1gcst aid iat,dso1',est IN Amcrtra tncrcas-
ctl.nere by rail and steamship to every quarter
of tha ,,lo' It vii. indeed. lt surry Iay for
Nm Ersmdsco II. ns fnn,,v stt,c| |ramhjera n..rrt
t1S Doanz'' WHICH a' oone a'i '"'3' ' "oou'
Pnnf" interest md curto.;tv naturally cling
tn \ ncrsn,, vii, counts iis wcalth by liz inili-
I'm fESrrvhrsIv hns rr,snrrt fnr n min wbt, hv
his ow sth nst s @ 15 sF a e as ,s se
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stoc;. % The Thereby ' gntninr princcly fortunes for
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city, as eMe eu!e' pso'Aostte ~ INV slun :" W
p!r1'hln CNy. tho uaust t @ as.s'1tcrs
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