A Gigantic Undertaking

A San Francisoo correspondent of Ihe Cincinnati Gommercial writes : "It will Le ruadily undtrstood tbat in a country rainlufii for six months, the qucstion of water to drink ranks the quesüon of Lapüsm enlirely. On I be eoast rongo rory ittle suow desccnds, aud all the creeks wilhin nuy rea sonable distance of San Francigco go dry for months togother. Hero in Sacramento, Midíiü-likc, wo drink a solu'ion of gold, for tlio Sacramento, which was of vore a pelluuid and arcadian rivor, s readered by the padanog and dabbling mincrs un cloudy ís a bog-wallow. Tho water is wbolosorae, as that of all quiet rivers i, but oue docti tiot like to ba plowinj;, grubbing, Bcra.!ngand hanowinj; in one's washbowl tho live-long year. tío coucentratfcd and abominables is the mud. tïiat when a firu takes place - which is the principal souree of popular üinusenient iú Sucraniento, iunlcad of the theater - thuy oflen liavo to f?]uirt out gaïlons and fiikins of it fro:n the hydrauts before the engines can begin to ?lay. ■ "With that gublime audacity of conoeption which distiugnishes Californians, ttiey re going for a snpply not only to tlic veiy Kummit of tbc Hierra Nevada, BtH over it, to the Nevada !npe. Tlity Save dainmed the Truokee, ntt below it psint ofexil from Lake Tahoe, and thcv vfill procecd to tnnnel through tiie Sierra Nevada, and carry tho water down nearly 800 miles, supplying five cit iws on he way - Anburn, 8eramento, Vallájo, Oukland and HaB Francisco, OTOWÍDg thc Sacramento Iwice and tho bay ouce. There ia a mining canal, tlio Eureka, in El Dorado county, whioli ia -Jijt) miles íoiig, and niany oiherg bundreda of miles ínng, but they are only ditclies. Whit ibis will oost is not estimated yet, llie amount íb so immense. "If San Fiancisco nnd Sacramento ver driuk tho water of that lake, thcy will (jiiiuT llio iaut crvstxl supplicJ to any great city oa cartli. EJflti.Dg on its Buifaoe, you can loek down and wululi the trout fnr, lar below, a&rlintr ubout, absoiutely iucapuble of con:ealment. Kntcr it fnr a hall), and tkough :-. may oouu' yourself o practioutswimmar, you will Ciad ynurselí II uhiIitíhi' about und able to fc I only wil 1 1 (he utmost exarti n. kb Mghl üi ivider l'ully ure are i it is said that ii. i in iu i'iuniiud in Lake Talioo Iiu.h cvur beeu recovercd. In i country of Buob atniö.spliiro and ficli vator, -io you wonder tlj.it tiiu old Spuniardtt, and the A.O)erioaQH who took o wifn tlieir i ta ij uhters, lpiv) begon en ttud raared 20, -■■. or DO children & is-ce.