Year: 1860

The San Francisco Times on MarysVille'


Our goodly little city Of MarysviIle has
often been misreprcseuted, but never quite
so much so as by the san Francisco Times in
its issue of Tuesday morning last. SO fear
ful is that paper that the liberal offer of the
city to furnish the State with a site, together
with extensive surroundings, for state Re
form School, may be accepted by the present
Legislature, it conjures up all kinds of imag
ary and possible objections to the location.
The site is good enough, it admits, so far as
the fertility Of the soil, the beauty of the
scenery, &c, are concerned, but then the eli
atel-the climate is terrible This same
objection has been industriously urged before,
by the enemies and enviers of Marysville,
but not quite to such an extreme as by the
Times. Observe how that paper expectorates
on the point


six months ef the year the vicinity eff Marys-
VILE and the whole interior ot thus State, Is one
tierra cgIeufe wherein the inhabitants during all
this time swelter in fearful heat, alike debtating
to body and mind. Here for half the year there
Is neither comfort. energy nor enjoyment, aud we
can see no reason why the unfortunate youths
who are to become the inmates of the State Re
form School should be subjected to this enfee-
bling, comfortless climate, when we have one SO
invigoraing and pleasant as that prevailing about
the Bay of San Francisco"


This statement shows a deplorable ignor-
ance of the interior portion of this State.
The hot weather in this part of the valley
never lasts more than a month or two at the
farthest, and, last summer the uncomforta-
bleness of the weather during greater por-
tion Of the season was owing to the cold
winds which came from the mountains. Dur
ing the summers We generally have few
weeks of tolerabe hot weather, but that it i:
so extremely debilitating to body and mind
is not true. On the contrary most constitu-
tions experience an altogether different re-
snlt, and there are hundreds of our citizens
who prefer the summer season to the winter
by hundred per cent The statement that
for sir months in the year the vicinity of
Marysvlle is one te,ra caliente, is wholly
destitute of truth.


1t must be taken into consideration also
that the site for this School is situated upon
the banks of Feather river, and that, in the
hottest of weather ever known, the river mar
gins are cool.


The effort of the Times to make it appear
that Marysville is not central point of the
State, is ridiculous beyond description. A
mere glance at the map shows that it is in
every respect, whether we regard geographic
cal position on the bulk of the population
Of California, as thoroughly central a point
as can be found in the State


The Times talks about heat. How many
months in the year are the streets of San
Francisco and the whole vicinity one great
whirlng world of suffocating sand, alike de-
structive of comfort and of health? How
many months are the people afflicted with
drizzling, soaking rains?


But, the great point to be considered in
the location of this School is, not only cen
traity Of position, but freedom from those
communicating influences which belong to
large seaport cities. And this consideration
must weigh greatly in favor OF Marysville,
for it is a city, even for its own size and in
terror position, uneommonly free from those
temptations which too frequently beset the
young.


However, we do not see the necessity Of
arguing the matter at all, since the Legisla-
ture will most probably be governed by the
recommendations of the State Reform School
Committee, who were sent out for the ex-
press purpose of selecting the best and most
eligible site, and who have decided that the
100 acres SO beautifully situated in the vcin-
ity of Marysville and on the banks of the Rio
de los Plumas, constitute the spot of all spots,
which they have seen, for the location of
this School