The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-05-03

|thing-not they. We had either got
| to make a smart loss on them, or
stop. and retail them out, so we built
| a store room, and Coburn is there
now doing the best he can to dispose
| of them. We become satisfied that
money could not be made very fast
| at Shasta, and having dissolved our
| Co. I left: but not before doing my
| best to dispose of part, or the whole
,, of the Boots, that we took along with
us. You may say, for me, to the
gentlemen boot owners, in old Som
erset, that l am under the necessity
of saying to them. that ultimately
they must pocket loss on their in
vestment. There is no help for 1t,
In my humble opinion. The time
was once, that such boots would sell,
but that time has gone by, never to
return-short of big fire, or some
thing OF that sort. II ] had nice
calf or goat boot here, l could sell
at profit; and whoever the man may
be, who thinks he can sell those now
here, to pay invoices, without costs,
had better come right along and try
1t. l am going to write the owners
all the particulars in the case. On
a given moment, in company with
four others, | embarked on board an
old wagon. and bid good bye to my
old partner and Shasta city. After
riding, walking and crawling, six days
we arrived at boat navigation on the
Sacramento river. The day we left
Shasta it commenced raining, and
continued IL hours: the creeks were
raised little. and we had to go round
in many places, which consumed
more time. My expenses for the six
days were sixty dollars. and no bet
ter fare than one could get in the
States for the same amount of money.
Now I'm on the little steamer called
the Orient, Capt. Bartlett. formerly of
Augusta. He recognized me as an
old acquaintance, and passes me down
to Sac. city, as a dead head, the first
dead head trip that ever took. Now
we land at Sacramento city.
Marysville is located on the Yuba
rived, about "a of mile from its
mouth. 1t is pretty village and a
smart one too, but very dirty diminu-
tive little river passes 1t, made so by
the labours of the miners for miles
above. In my view, the location is
a bad one. Yuba city on the west
bank of the Feather, Is the spot where
the natives should have located one
and all; a high level and beautiful
bank, a pure clear river running past
1T, and within IA of mile. of the
present city of Marysville. The city
was orig nally commenced tYuba city,
in the right spot for convenience and
beauty, but up comes some spectators
and land on the shore. The price of
lots are too high--there Is difficulty
lin their minds,) about crossing the
Feather river to gain the city, by those
who are settled on the Yuba, and so
on and so forth. Consequently they
paddle their canoe. right across the
Feather, and strike into the mouth of
the little, nasty, dirty river Yuba, go
up half a mile. land, lay out city;
get out their bills and circulate them.
from the bar up. then blow, blow.
blow; hire two little steamers to hang
out sign for Marysville. and when
they get up to Yuba-wheel right
square to the right, and pop right into
that little nasty goose brook, and
land their passengers at the city of
Marysville,
In this country a strike is made
quick, and before the Yubans walked
up-it was all day with them; and
there Is that most beautiful of loca-
tions on the clear Feather river, aban-
doned to the red men, and Marysville,
(city too, with It's Mayor and alder
man, big town--and fiourishing-on
that most miserable of all rivers, the
nasty. muddy Yuba. All this comes
| from over sleeping. Had the Yubians
reduced the price Of their lots, and
hired steamboats-that might have
saved their city. They are taking
down their buildings, and moving
them across the Feather, over to that
miserable Yuba. for the purpose of
being somewhere. II makes me vexed
every time | go up; but | cant help
lit. Marysville Is we'll enough locat-
ed, relative to site--Only for the
water-the other being far the most
beautiful of the two. There may be
at this time, over quarter OF the
business men In this country. who
may be reckoned on, as sane, but on
my word. from what have heard, and
seen. since have been here, | am
of the opinion that no sane man in
habited 1t. from 40 to about 81 deg. All
crazy: every one of them, and should
you pass up this (Feather) river. you
would see evidence to substantiate my
assertion. The great effort was-to
hit the right point, and build up a
large town. JUS jump on board and
take trip up with me. Now we are
off: here we are at Fremont rs miles
from Sacramento: you'll notice that
this city is located on the west bank
of the opposite, you will
notice the mouth Of the Feather river.
The city on that bank, Is called YER
non. Did you ever see two more love-
| ly spots, to locate on? No. nor
either Now still tell you some
thing of the two cities. Some three
or four spectators came up the river
to this point: landed, took view
of things in general, and the mouth
of the Feather liver. In particular.
Well gentlemen, no steamer can ever
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