Year: 1860

A cotemporary was complaining, the other
day. that the population Of California was SO
fuctuating and migratory in its character, as
to forbid the possibility of the establishment
of those permanent Improvements, in the way
of the building of houses and cultivation Of
the ground and the erection of family home
steads which characterize those countries
which are truly happy and prosperous. This
thing, though partially and only partially
true, at this time, was wholly SO, few years
ago At present, it could scarcely with jus
tice be said that majority of the business,
| professional, and working population were
not striving to build up for themselves per-
manent positions and permanent homes on
this coast Especially could it not be said of
! the citizens of Marysville. Our business men
! ore those who have secured the confidence Of
the people among whom they live-their in
| terests are identified with those of their fell
low citizens-they have grown with the
place and strengthened with its strength.
/ Here have they cast their fortunes, and here
/ III lutN lNluulhs Oul uiOSS IlpullHtHb liO'
/ fessional men are those who are building up
their homes in our midst. Our mechanics
and laboring men are gradually accumulat-
ing property of permanent character in the
city, erecting houses and beautifying their
homes. They intend to prosper with the
prosperity of Marysville.


Bayard Taylor has we'll said that no city,
according to its size, in California is so well
built as the city of Marysville and he speaks
truly. Look at our Court House. Look at


our Churches Look at our business houses.


Look at our printing offices. Look at our


hotels. Look at our private residences. They
, are mostly all built with view to durability


and permanenee, while the projectors have


not, at the same time, been unmindful Of or


nament As to the latter-private residen-
r ces-where can be found evidences of more


care, nicety and taste than are displayed in
and about them and in and about their sur.


roundings? ? How neat and how durable in
their structure! How beautifully are the
vines trained and trailed around the columns
, of the porches! How sweetly the roses
, and the lilies and the thousand and one lux
, urious exotics from the oriental and the trop-
ical climes bloom and gladden. in the JOY OF
their existence, as they overshadow the gray.
eled walks and give fragrance to the air
Skirting the very precincts of trade and traf-
fc, these residences of the well to-do and the
opulent run back into the most distant sub
urbs, until their surroundings spread out into
such magnificent gardens and groves as those
which embosom the dwelling of John c.


FALL or the fruitful orchards and vineyards
of C. Covillaud and his neighbors Wescoatt
and Teegarden.


Everything bears the marks Of permanence.


Close upon the skirts of our city are the pro.
ductive farms of extensive agriculturists like
Jack Haun, and adjoining him, as far as the
valleys and the plains extend, and in fact on
all sides of the city, farms and ranches are
owned and cultivated by men who expect tc


rear their families thereon and to be buried
i within their limits. These farms and ranch
es are bounded alone by the Sacramento
4 river upon the west, Bear river on the south
and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada on the
& east and north. Their trade is with Marys-
c Vile; their interest is with us; they are o


US and whatever advances their prospect
will advance ours, as on the other hant
- whatever advances ours will advance theirs


The ultimate wealth and prosperity of Marys


ville with such surrounding country a


this, is certain. There can be no doubt as t,


the future. But her wealth and advance
., ment may be Of course more rapidly secured
t by lively attention to her immediate inter


ests by direct communication with San
Francisco by railroad and by facilitating
communication with the country by means
o: good highways open at all seasons


We have said nothing Of the immense trade
which we must necessarily have with the
mountains, by the opening of good roads, be-
cause we have sufficiently dwelt upon that
topic in former articles.


Situated as Marysville is populated as she
is by enterprising and Industrious citizens
backed 10y vast agricultural and minera


region, he must be poor reasoner indeed


who cannot see for her an undoubted great
, ness in the future.