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( the salinas being five miles il

quantities of saone of the salinas being five miles in
circumference, and yielding inexhaustible supply.
Nor is there any why manufactures should not
flourish here The country well adapted 10 the growth
IF the materal-cotton and wool and the streams
OF such character to afford excellent power
Ii is said know that these streams fail before they reach
The towards which they aow; but in the hlly
portions of the country their sources, they are
kept full by the melting of the large quantities of snow
which remain upon the mountains till late in the summer
Besides We should recoeet that there abundance
of rain from April 10 October that the streams must
be supplied with water a large part of the year A.,
Let us now, sir, take glance at California. And
here again. shall avail myself OF the information dem
we'd from my friend from Missouri. Mr. HALL he IN;
forms that the climate is the most saubrions and
the soil is quite good that in the valley OF the Nus
sisspp yet that is superior to that N oher loruohs
Sacramento which is about three hundred and hity miles
in length and thirty forty in width probably one OF
the most fertile in the world There are olher valleys
equally fertile though not so extensive And ne July
confirms the statement OF others, to the effect that II is
finely adapted TO the raising OF grain, and Tor grazing
numbers, and of excellent quality. Wild horses; elk
deer, and other game, abound IN the uninhabied
portions of the country Those parts OF the district
which habitable capable OF sustaining as nu-
merous population as Italy My friend from Mis-
sour correcs statement made IN a letter written by
him from California, after his arrival IN the coun
try and before he had seen much OF IT, IN regard to
the necessity of irrigation for all the crops raised. lie
remarks that wheat oats, and the grains generally, can
be raised WITHOUT irrigation but that later crops require
this process. Vegetables OF which large quantity can
be raised on small piece of ground, produced with
out much expense, even at the cost OF irrigation.
The remarks that made in relation to the
mineral of New Mexico, will generally apply
here, with the additional remark that there is near the
quicksilver IN the world Coal also abounds
will here introduce one extract from Waddy Thomp-
sons Mexico:
''From all the information which have received-and
have been nqusve the subject am well satisfied
eren s desabs as oeyoa nor any o' hs world
nmhI As MAJ adv MA
To nothing OF any other harbors In California, that
the world and its shores covered with enough timber,
Ga species OF the veoa) TO build those navies If man
California There portion of the western
tinent which produces all the grains well have been
that they had known whole fields produces quantity
incredible, thatI will not state it The whole face Of the
and cotton, find their own congenia climate Besides
covered there and the pea fisheries have always been
of the largest profit and more than these there
venng but calm and ssormess Pacific The dis
from the head of navigation in the kansas and Red
ionia is than five six hundred miles: let that
distance be overcome by railroad and what vista opens
10 the prosperity and power OF our country"
| Such being the character of Upper California why
should not the hardy, industrious, and enterprising
farmers" from the United States desert the compare
lively sterl hills and plains Of the NORTH and take up
their abode this paradise of the west' twill be found
sir by any who will take the trouble 10 read Col j.
c. Femonts report that even farmers from the broad
Californa-that their labos rewarded by bountiful
harvests and that they are within reach of the Of
carrying their productions TO market
cannot forbear giving short extract:
"Captan Suffer emigaredt this country from the west
part Missouri in 1888 1885, and formed the
dement, valley (le Sacrameno) large grant OF
land which he obtained from the Mexican government
He had at first trouble with tue Indians but by
occasional exercise of welltmed authority, he has
ceeded in converting them into peaceabe and industrious
people"
He then goes on TO describe Mr. Suffers establish
ment, his employment OF the Indians, &c. He then
marks:
'He this year (and altogether by labor
three hundred anegas OF wheat Ohe anega being about
as we can a, present know is thirty fnegas for one
sown but of its fertility, may be mem
where sheep had been eight for
eight sown" The Sacramento here noble river about
three hundred yards broad deep and tranquil with several
homs OF water in the channel and its banks continuously
Suffer- az anchor near the andnsone nle twomps,ed
lighter, and the other schooner-whch shortly
proceed voyage to Fort Vancouver Tor OF goods
find by reference to McCulloch's Geographical Die
tonary that the number of white people in this province
in 1881 was $4,000. What the number is at this time
have not been able to learn with accuracy; but it is
probably less than 10000; and the tide of emigration is
rapidly flowing IN from all parts of the Union, and the
fertile valleys of California will TEEN with million
of active and thriving people.
But the acquisition of California OF great i'm
portance in a commercial point of view.
have already incidentally spoken OF the bay of San
Francisco There other harbors on the coast which
though not safe and capacious yet of consdera
BILE consequence But San Francisco the harbor of har
bors the Pacific coast hardly be overestmated in
its Importance not only to California itself, but to the
commerce of the whole Union Our commerce in the
Pacific ocean is quite eXtens ve and still increasing
And should the plan of Mr. Aaron H. Palmer, lately
recommended to this government, of shpcana to unite
the Atlantic and Pacific, and Tor railroad from some
point the Mississippi to San Francisco San Diego
in California, be carried into operation, it doubtless
will be before the lapse of many years, its value and inn
portance will be greatly augmented.
Why sir, it estimated that at the present time "he
Amar hal aln tho ID. tG,a
number hundred and give employment upwards of
twenty thousand men; and that during the year ending
the 31st OF December, 1887, the whole number of our
merchant vessels which cleared for ports the Pacific
and to ports in the East lndies amounted hundred
and eighty The amount of capital employed does
not, probably, fall short OF eight millions OF dollars
perhaps tits more.
merce to foreign nations, with whom liable at
any time to be engaged in war shall adopt the
means necessary to protect 1t ourselves? believe, sir
that should not hesitate for single moment Ii we
embrace the opportunity offered TO us, may Sc
cure the prizes otherwise, it may be forever too late
Every at all acquainted with the history of Calfor-
MIA, must be perfectly that Great Britain has been
Tor number OF years past upon the point of laying her
rapacious hand upon it, And she would doubtless have
effected her purpose had not government wisely in
terposed. And take this occasion to say that con
slider the doctrine proclaimed by Mr. Monroe in 1923
and lately reiterated by the President in his message on
Yucatan, sound and that it should be strictly and
constantly enforced by the United States We ought in.
deed TO coDsder any attempt the part of Great Brit
am or any other European power to take possession
California las dangerous to peace and safety"
Sir consider this of acquisition as one OF
great Importance other respects than those | have
named 1t is not merely question of to-day The idea