Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-10
THURspAx. OCTOBER 10. 1889.
They Will see Greai Changes.

THURsDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1859.
They will See Great Changes.
A circular is being widely circulated
announcing great excursion Of the Cali
fornia pioneers of New England to re.
visit the State next spring. The train is
to leave Boston April 10, 1890. The cir.
cular states that a number of the mem
bers of the society have formed a party
to visit the Golden State where we
toiled, suffered, and were young and
happy"
To one who can loose the reins of his
Imagination this visit is one of more
than usual significance. 1t will be forty
years and upwards since these men first
left their eastern homes to travel three
thousand weary miles across an almost
unexplored continent populated by bands
of hostile Indians; or to sail three or four
times as many thousands of miles and
brave besides the dangers of tonic fever
and hostile tribes, to climb the Cordillerss 8
of the isthmus of Tehuantepec, or
the spine OF the continent along
the Chagres river; or, worse than either,
to sail around world by way of the
stormy Cape to get to the land of gold.
Few of those who set out on these peril
ous journeys were less than 20 to 25
years old. That would make those who
shall revisit the State next spring go to
IS years old, some of them registering
the three score years and ten set as the
limit to human life by the Hebrew poet
1900 years ago. Some of these visitors
will no doubt come here with the full
iour score years Of King David chroni-
cled in every snowy hair, in every furrow
on the brow, and in every painful move
ment Of the gait. What sad and
instructive changes will be there
in the halting steps and dim eyes, from
that vigor of manhood and glow of youth
which was the possession of these ad-
venturous men who braved so many
dangers to seek their fortunes in the un-
known wilds of California;
But the change in them will be insig-
9il2cans to that which they will find in
this great State to which the heart of
every man turns whose eyes have ever
beheld Der glories for the short run of
one set of seasons. They came here these
four decades ago to vast wilderness,
whose future was as dark as the grave.
Her resources were unexpiored, their pos
sibilities were unknown, their elements
were unanalyzed. All was wild, savage
and untried. Her plains were unpeopled,
her cities unbuilt and her soils untried.
If they remained here as late as 1870,
after score of years of toll, they still
went back to their old homes, men of
middle life, with but a faint conception
of what the Golden State was destined to
become. They left but an outpost of
civilization here, which might or might
not win the land and hold it as a perma.
nent possession. All was merely tenta-
tive even as late as 1870.
They will cone back as the last dec
.ade of the century is about to unfold,
in whose middle period they came here,
and they will find the fair land they left
behind won forever to the highest type
of civilization that has yet blessed man
kind. They will find men still delving
for gold in the mountain. sides as they
did nearly half a century ago; but they
will find that the treasures of these rocky
hills were as nothing when compared
with those which their fellow -adventurers
have since found in the broad rich
plains at the feet of the Sierras. They
will find population of million and q
half OF people engaged in all the highest
pursuits of civilized men. Fifty million
bushels of wheat, ten million bushels of
barley, forty million pounds of fine wool,
twenty million gallons of noble wines, a
million boxes of raisins, as many boxes
of oranges, and other fruits, cereals and
animal products of the soil untold will
be seen being loaded into ships for
Europe, or into cars for the
East. Where the little hamlet stood |
by the great bay in 1849, they
will zee one of the most magnificent
cities of the age. All the plains they
will find full of prosperous farmers. All
the river banks and railroad tracks will
be aligned with villages, towns and
cities. They will find the farmers made
rich with their corn and wine and oil.
They will find the foreets OF the State
being cut up to 90 to Australia to build
houses, and to their own towns to decor
ate the costliest mansions in the old
Bay State. They will hear the
ring of the artisans hammer
wherever they may 20, and they will
hear the shrill scream of steam made
captive to do the worlds work all along
he thousand miles that measure the
State from north to south. It will be in
Ill respects . revelation of mighty
achievements done by the companions of
heir early days, who remained here
While they went homo. The changes
viii appear to them great, and yet as
hey look over the great State they
ome to visit, and see how
title of her resources are devel-
ped, how few Of her many acres
re occupied. how much of her treasures =
till lie hidden in the soils Of the plains j,
= The ribs Of the mountains, they will u