Year: 1860

opening before 1t as beams on California TO-
day. She has mines which enable her to
export fifty or sixty millions of gold every
sures contained in these mines, and the per-
sonal investments therein-and beside her
mines of silver, mercury, coal and iron, her
population of six hundred thousand own
property which has an assessed value of
more than one hundred and thirty millions
of dollars. Within her borders are seventy
six million acres of tillabe and grazing
lands-all of it probably fit for cultivation,
and millions OF acres of the finest timbered
land in the world. Her soil produces more
grain to the acre and larger fruits and yege-
tables, with less expense, the difference in
wages considered, and in a shorter time
than that of any other State in the Union
To crown these material blessings, her eli
mate is bamy and wholesome, and so mild
that roses bloom in the open air of winter
and strawberries ripen during the same sea-
son. Her skies of seldom-cl -clouded, deepest
blue, bend over every variety of grand and
lovely landscape. The scenery Of Wales
and Switzerland is equalled by that of the
Sierra Nevada; the rolling foothills with
their orchard-l like groves of oak and spring
garment of many hued blossoms, have a
beauty of their own while the level valley
at their bases, stretching for hundreds of
verdurous miles north and south, and dash
ing its waves Of grains and grasses against
the far purple wall of the Coast Range-who
shall describe its delicious beauty, or that
of the sea ccast and bays lying ''glassed in
their own loneliness far beyond?


Well, this favored land is free heritage
to all who will occupy it, and the indnce-
ments for our eastern brethren to come
and share it with US are multiplying every
day. There has not been sach activity in
mineral discoveries for many years. Not
only have the most astonishing developments
of mineral wealth been made in Western
Utah to the east of us, and in Southern
Oregon to the north of us, but within our
own borders new placers and new gold-bc
ing quartz and other metaliferous veins have
been discovered in every direction, until the
authenticated reports of rich strikes are
hardly regarded unless they approach the
marvellous. A person disposed to see in
every event the hand of special providence
would conclude that the new sources of ma
terial wealth were revealed for the purpose
of stimulating that march of emigration
which has somewhat Jagged of late years,
and so throwing into the unclaimed regions
Of the Pacific the seed of future empires
at least consider the circumstance alluded
to as redounding to their special advantage.
From the unusual attention paid in cur State
to agriculture, it was to be feared that the
amount of grain and fruit produce would
exceed the demand, and thus seriously dis
courage most important interest; but these
numerous mineral discoveries, of such
,empting richness, will attract to our midst
and to adjoining territories which We alone
,an supply, large army Of consumers
Thus both Of the great industrial features of
he State will not only be sustain ad-they |
Will receive a fresh impulse. The exodus of
some of our present population to outside
gold and silver regions will be more than |
made up BY new comers, and those who /
cave MS will eventually return, many of them |
With fortunes to invest in the favored land /
where they are satisfied to live and die
While the rush that the new mines will oc-
asion in so many different directions will /
multiply the cases of individual disappoint
ncnt and even ruin, the masses of onr peo-
lie must be benefited and the common
wealth enter upon future of brilliant pros
,erity.