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Title: Volume 3 (1858-1859) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Collection Name: Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine Published: 1858-1859 # of Pages: 592 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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TO CORRESPONDENTS, 239 we have nearly eight hundred saw, quartz and grist-mills; besides iron and brass foundries, machine shops, sugar refineries, apaper mill, soap, perfumery, furniture, safe, lock, broom, candle and cracker manufactories, and an untold number of others. These, and a thousand unmentioned causes, have united to assist California in writing her importance upon the everchanging pages of history, and are suggestive of what she might be if her destiny were united to the East by that longhoped-for, but too-long-delayed Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. Ata time when the public mind, throughout the Eastern States and Europe, is alive with the excitement of an active prepara-~ tion for emigration to the shores of the Pacific, it becomes our duty, as a public journalist, to offer a word or two of caution and advice to those now contemplating such a step. You are aware that the severing of social ties and the removal of family landmarks are no unimportant proceedings in your history. Many have done this to their hearts’ sorrow—not so much on account of the step taken as the way in which it was done. Men left their wives and families behind them, thinking, in a few brief months, to make a fortune, and then return to share it with those they loved and had left behind them. Their absence was prolonged for years—aye, many long, long years—during which time, changes by death and other causes, far more painful than even death itself, told them, in tones of disappointment, that the way in which the step was taken was as imprudent as it was fruitful of unforeseen and joy-destroying consequences. Their experiences should be allowed to teach you important lessons which we will mention: First, not to leave for these shores without bringing your family with you. Do not be in too great a hurry to start; but see that all your business arTangements are complete. Do not come with any other hope or expectation than to do only as well here as in the place you will leave behind you; and, if you are doing well where you are, be content to remain there. Upon arrival, take the first opportunity of obtaining honorable employment which may offer itself, or you can find. If you wish to go to the mines, first seek a spot that will be permanent, and then build you a neat little cottage, near to your mining claim, and, with those you love, be content there to live and labor for many years, in the same way as you would in any other country. Then, be frugal and economical. Gather around you such a social circle as you feel necessary for adding to your happiness. Ifyou wish to engage in agricultural employments, and have sufficient money to buy you a farm and stock it, seek some suitable location; and then be careful not to purchase before thoroughly examining, with some well-tried friend or acquaintance, the title thereto. If these brief remarks are attended to, we venture to say that, ere many years have rolled away, you will bless the day when you sought the shores of the Pacific as a home for yourself and your family; and be relieved from the anxieties of an older country, at the same time that a fine prospect is offered to your rising family. See @o Correspondents. LL. F., Sierra —With pleasure we accept your offer. J. L. R—We most cordially welcome you to our little family of contributors. T.—Certainly—send ’em along. Did California literature allow of articles being paid for, we should be willing to give you our note (and we don’t do such things very often) for 64 cents—payable on the next arrival of the comet—for every acre of such “poims.” Josie.—Your “‘ God Pity the Poor,” is worthy of a noble nature, such as yours seems to be. We shall find it a corner, for we like it. H. f., Sonora.—What ! not dead yet? Why, we expected that your giant efforts in poetical literature would either have killed you long ago, or taught you common sense. There’s no hope for you, we fear; but send ’em along.