The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-11 00:00:00

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come the first of gold-producing countries, buff):
' exported, from 1849 to the close of 1866 upward!
1 of $785,000,000, all but $65,000,000 being extracted
from this State. The total product, up to Octo-
ber, 1867, is estimated at a billion, the return for
the last year being $20,000,000. The mines 1113/1
wrought, besides gold, are silver, quicksilver, cop-
per, and coal. Tin, lead, antimony, sulphur, alnith
borax, and sulphate of magnesia are found. Petro'
leum abounds, more especially in the south, in ill°,
Mattole district. From San Francisco the silver a'
Nevada and other States s exported, and althougb
the Union Pacific Railroad will make some changes,
it is probable that the precious metals, more We'
cially silver, will be continued to be directed to Sall
Francisco for export to Japan, China, and India',
to which that metal usually finds its way as its bob_
market. Of the population not less than 60,000 are
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Chinese, whoare fast growing in favour in the labour,
market, although at present they may be robbed or
murdered with impunity by a white man, even if
in the presence of many of their countrymen, wilo3e
evidence is not receivable. On the railroads the;
sands are employed; in vineyards they supplant tii
whites. Without them woollen manufactures COu
not be carried on; to agriculture they take n,aftre
rally, and all washing is in their hands. Still `,;(31
supply of labour is not equal to the dea33.,
although wages are as follows, paid in gold ',
Skilled mechanics from $4 to $6 a day ; farm band'',
$3O to $4O a month, with board ; wood chopPT
$1 50c. a cord ; female domestics, $3O a ra°'l.
These advantages combine to give to California,'o
bright future, though they are not all. The Gold
Gate is the gate to the Pacific, and more Iliar",
and decided than is Sandy Hook to the Atlaatio
b
Ocean. Straight across the Continent is the biL
road to every bit of land washed by the Pail;
(except the western coast of South America) fr.°oo,
Europe, and the northern continent of Amer,' b,
San Francisco is a great station on a world's 14,
way, and that the road which soon will be most "ail
versed. It is the station to which will radiate 1
lines of the Pacific Ocean ; it is the station in Wbicio
will centre all American travel westward ; it
h„,O
the station for which Europeans will aim 1"..t,
journeying to any of the Pacific islands, to Das.,
ern China, and the islands of the Chinese Se7s
to Australia, and to New Zealand. Here, that ,
an advantage that cannot be exaggerated, andell ter
finest not fully estimated. Already a line ol`er
finest steamers afloat ply to Hongkong, and anonbo
to the Sandwich Islands. Presently a third '4l'o,
directed to Sidney, and even now the harbour nfs,
tains numerous fleets belonging to this port L 0
gagel in the coasting traffic, which extends l''',,,b
Sitka down to the coast of South America. Enup
has been said fully to support the assertion t 00
California is pre-eminently the land for men of mere
and enterprise. The settler will not only find tub $
a golden country, but a pleasant society, which
recent English traveller has declared to assun'e Ineho
the fat, good-natured rosy English type, than l'ipc.
of the soemn, thin, cadaverous, but more jute'.
tual, Eastern American.

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