The Shasta courier., 1853-11-05
CalifOrnia---Elcr Necessities aad Resour.
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CalifOrnia---EIer Necessities aad Resour.
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Every great commercial community has from
tine 10 time occasion To complaia OF hard times
and ours is not an exception. We are me VIC
TINS OF overtrading. Three hundred thousand
people cannot be forced To eat the food sufficieh
Tor mllien; neither can one man, though he
Is aCalfornian, wear four pair of boots at time.
or destroy more than limited amount of MANN
factured products. As our friends at the East,
however, seem to regard our capacity to destroy
as about equivalent /, that of ten natives of any
other country, they have supplied US on the
most magnificent scale, aud, in consequence.
everybody is full, and still our warehouses groan
under their stores OF goods. Whether taes are
sold or not, the freight moaey averaging about
one million dollars per month"; has to be With
drawn from our business here, and transmitted.
to the East This state of things must continue
just as long as we continue dependent upon less
favored countries for all we consume. The
remedy is to Increase our productions. We send
annually out OF the State upwards of four mill
ion dollars to pay for flour. California can pro-
duce every pound we need, fresh aud pare, and
thereby retain these four millions among our
farmers and millers, TO be expended in improv-
ing the country and further increasing the pro-
ducton. Another instance of our short sighted
ness is, the lack of paper mills on this coast.
There are nearly fifty newspapers in this State,
Oregon and the Sandwich Islands, besides
multitude of job offices, consuming a large
amount OF paper, and yet there is not u mill in
the Country to supply them. The manufacturer
would have the benefit of heavy protective
tariff, in the shape of freight, insurance. COM
mission, ETC., upon the imported article and an
ample market for all he could produce; and yet
we are left dependent upon the East The fact
is, there are too many traders in proportion to
our population. Our pursuits are not sufficiently
vared. Because some have met with great sue
ce SIS in trading, new corners think all must do
as well, and Immediately commence a competi-
ton. which so divides the profits that but few
can pull through unscaihed. There are hun
dreds of enterprises in this State as yet un-
touched, which offer far better chances for sue
cess than merchandising. We want more pro-
ducers; and man of energy and intelligence
will be almost of remuneration here, no
matter what he undertakes to produce BY
producers mean as we'll those who make any
of our natural products available to exclude the
foreign article, as those " no manufacture from
the material. Our ice companies are an IL
nstralion OF this. Enterprising men, who have
had the intelligence TO look beyond the Cnvary-
ing routine of business pursuits usual here, have
realized handsomely by supplying the mining
towns with this indispensable article from the
mountains, or by importing it from the cold re-
gons Just north of us. There. is another enter
prise which IS destined before long to save the
State millions OF dollars per annum. We refer
to the discovery and opening of coal mines in
our vicinity There now twenty ocean
steamers, and some forty river boats in Califor-
MIA aud Oregon, consuming an immense amount
ct coal annually, all of which has to be imported
distance Of sixteen or eig gh cen thousand miles
al great expense. A large amount of money is
drawn out Of the State to pay for this to The inn
poverishmen of our State and the profit Of for
eigners. A good coal mine here would be worth
a score of gold mines. Recent discoveries have
shown that there is coal of good quality upon
coast and it only requires capital and enter
prise to make it available. The existence of a
large bed of coal within twenty miles of Puget
Sound has been known for nearly two years.
Another deposi,e has been found on Columbia
river, and very recently an immense bed of ex-
celIent quality has been discovered at point on
Goose Bay, accessible TO vessels of suitable ca
pacity. Still other rines Of superior quality
have been discovered in the foot hills of the ST.
ezra, in Butte county. abou, fifty miles from Ma
rvsville. The time must come when these
mines will be made TO yield their hidden treas
ures, and thus give employment TO thousands of
our own citizens, and stop the drain of millions
OF dollars into the pockets OF foreigners.-S. +.
Herald.