Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-03-19
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SOUTHERN OREGON.

Letter From an Occasional CORES.
pomdent A Backward spring -
RaIlroal Is Needed Business DE.
RESPONSIBILITIES, Etc.
ASHLAND, March IL, 1880
ED. SENTINEL My efforts to furnish the
readers ofyour excellent paper an occasional
letter from this isolated part Of the world
have as yet proven somewhat spasmodic.
My only excuse is that, having nothing
particularly to do, / have felt the usual in
ability to do anything.
"Spring still lingers," etc., but we have
hope. not that kind that springs immortal
in the human breast, but the common sort,
born of inward consciousness, that warm
weather ought to reach us some time before
the meeting of the third ermers. We shall
see. Usually at this season, many kinds Of
fruit trees are in bloom, nature has on her
best clothes, and everything seems joyous.
Yestesday, a robin, which winters here.
sang merrily by my window; to-day, old
Borea sends him shivering to sunny hooks,
his merry chirp somewhat ont Of tune.
The oldest inhabitant" is dead; you
know the ancient gentleman invoked in
such cases twas grief killed the old boy
in a vain effort to rummage from his an IT,
quated craninm the precedent for the pres
ent state Of the weather.
Having exhausted item No. l, weather,
what shall l say next? The great wave Of
property, sweeping over the older Eastern
States, has not yet reached us. CONNER
cial affairs have long been on a dead level
Of mediocrity in Oregon. The longing
eyes of the people rave scanned the horizon
closely for some sign Of approaching i'm
provement, but among many mirages so
full of hope at first flush, the last bubble
almost pricked, so far as regards instant
relief, may be mentioned the distant puff
Of the iron horse, heard in the north, 80
miles away; in the south, some 100 miles.
What is the use OF raising wheat to be
consumed in freight to the eastward? Ye
grim ghosts, stalking iDsolently through
the corridors of the nations capital, purse
in hand, to prevent legislation unfavorable
to railroads, answer. 1.-THE mills Of the
ances is yet a long way from the upper and
neither millstone.
We have the grandest mountain valley in
the world prove it by the Sphynx now in
Mexico J and yet We are only a helpless de-
tendency, ever paying tribute to San Fran
cisco.
Your scribler thinks the "entering wedge"
is already here to aggiavate our grievances,
and that is the ip1ux of small capitalists, to
be followed by larger ones, with weather
eyes ON our fine lands, threatening us with
land monopoly.
If ] dared venture into the realm OF pol
tiles, l might tell you something Of inter-
est. You know my weakness for the mule
side of all questions, so l am afraid to say
more han that soon those at a distance
may see something analogous to what Col.
- experienced during the late tiff be-
tween the States. During the progress OF
a great battle he had occasion to order a
stalwart son of the p~rairies to take his place
in the ranks just before an onslaught of
the enemy. Laying low behind a friendly
log he parted the command by saying:
- Lay low, Colonel, and yon'ii soon see the
the d-dest fight on record. We have al
ready held our municipal elections. In
we gather the clans for a sortie, pre-
paratory to the grand struggle in November,
and, altogether, we expect fun. / hope
only one condition will be recognized as
necessary to the stability of our institutions
in this campaign, and that is that they be
of all acrimonious or sectional
In other respects let the longest
pole knock the persimmons.
Truly thine, I. r.