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Show 142 NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. ' present date, we give room to two, as samples of the advertisements that appear in our daily newspapers. [From the Eve'Jii.ing Bulletin, Dec. 4th, 1857.] W IFE 'V ~NTE~.-An American Gentleman, 40 years of a e a farmer 111 easy mrcumstances, wants a wite. Any Americ~X: Lady, between the ages o_f 22 ~n.d ~' can r eply to the above. N 0 one need address, unJcss the d1spos1hon 1s-a country life and a comforta. ble home. Uefercnces must be undoubted and exchanged Addres Lock Box 1576, I>. 0., San Fra11cisco. ' · 8 [From the Morning Call, Dec. 8th, 1857.] WIFE WANTE~.-A .young .man, American by birth, 32 ':£; years of a~e, a Farmer 1n comfortable circumstances wants a w~ e. Any Amerwan Lady, between the ages of 18 and 25 c~n a 1 w1th r~alname and address-who would lie contented with a P~!J home In. the country. Address,-, Box 112, Wells Fargo & Co'fEx press office. ' • WHY SHOULD I GO ? To this question, Why should I go to California? we answer: to build up a home and fortune, in a new and princely c.ountry. For two or three years succeeding the first dtscovery of gold in California, the larger number of those who made the journey here either by land or water, were young men, mere adventurers, and almost their only object, the speedy acquirement of a for:une in gold from the mines, intending to return .to their eastern homes for its enjoyment ; believing, or seeming to believe, that California could possess no other attraction than her gold-fields. But no sooner had the first .adventurers returned to their homes in the east, with the story of the beautiful and fertile valleys, and delightful climate of the Pacific c~ast, than hundreds of families, from among the hardy pioneer~ of the Western States, were seen wending their way with their flocks and their herds, over the broad, APPENDIX. 143 wild and almost desert-belt of our great continent ; whilst from along the Atlantic border, came "floating palaces," freighted with living hosts. , "Who 'd left their Eastern homes to rear, ~n ~mpire 's proud foundation here." A few months more had elapsed, and again the story of new ad ventures and successes, was borne back to .other kindred and friends, and then another emigration ensued, and which on each succeeding year has been renewed, until a continuous annual emigration to California has become a fixed fact. Nor will it ever cease ; but, 'vith the new and increased facilities to emigration-the construction of national wagon roads across the plains, and the opening of new routes by sea and land -will be greatly increased, until all the vast unoccupied plaius and valleys of California and the Pacific coast, shall teem with an industrious, prosperous and happy people. BUT WHY LEAVE HOME? You ask; Why leave home, and kindred, and friends, with all their dear associations, and go to California ? To which we answer: to make homes here ; homes for I yourselves and for your children, that will be as dear to them at least, as are those of our childhood to us. With the spread of civilization, our borders must be extended~ homes must be multiplied; and where can this be done more advantageously, than amidst the fertile valleys, and beneath the sunny skies of the Pacific coast lands ? ( |