The Empire County argus., 1855-06-16


Following the Cows proclamation are our San
Francisco advertisements, which see,
We clip the following communication from the
San Francisco Sun:
Messrs. Editors: have read the Sun leader of
Monday. You state that it costs one third
more money to 90 from here to New York than
from From New York to San Francisco. Good
that is Just what citizens have been working
for the last two years-what California wants is
popuaton-we want the bone and snew of the
country at large to come here and develop the
soil. mining and agricultural pursuits. The rich
pay high fares the poor can not. We want an
increase of population we should do every thing
to encourage emigration to our shores and with
low fares, families will come here to reside. We
want to women and children brought to Cali
fornia at half price Let the men, the heads of
families pay full price, and women and children
less, and we will soon see cur country fill up.
1t is the worst kind of policy to have low fares
from here to New Iork--the very worst feature of
the times is to many hundreds leaving us for
the East; and the lower the fare the clear
out 1t is the policy of State to get and keep
all we can in the way of emf grafton. We have the
most productive soil in the world, and the best eli
mate.
Oh no, Mr.. Editor. you are all wrong low fare
from New York here. and rice rerSa homeward. is
what we need and Garrison and the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company deserve the thanks Of the
whole community for the present arrangement.
We can not, for the life of us, sec any good and
equitable reason, why this discrimination in favor
of immigrants and against Calfornians, should he
the policy of our State In the first place there
are certain laws of service and equivalent, which
extend to this carrying business to all other
lines of trade. The carrying of passengers is
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San Francisco and New York, and the steamers
could not afford to go under ballast to either port
without charging greatly advanced rate for pas
sage to the other. Then where is the justice of
this variation in rates. when the business is equal
ly profitable from either port at general scale of
prices for the trip1 rhe advanced cost of coal
or other commodities, on this coast, over cost of
same in the East, can not afford q reasonable
ground for the increased rate of passage from San
Francisco. for they must have coal to return to the
lsthmus for their New York passengers, even though
they went thither empty When fares were high
est to this State, and when ccal and ship stores
were as hens teeth. any person could rcad
ly obtain situation as Fifth Mate to work his
way to New York. poor clap who took a
passage from San Francisco to n York in 40.
would have had the DEVILS own coal bill to foot,
when he the only passenger, if the steamship
company had made the return trip pay expenses
And now, we can't see exactly. how the State is
to secure permanent. contoned and prosperous
population, by setting herself mp on edge like an
old-fashioned deadfall to close down every visit
when once here and allow him no other show
than to work his way through. Men come here to
better their fortunes, and, having rather elevated
ideas of the facilities for making the amount re-
auired. they do not mean to be great while about
it. When they have learned something of the
country, and conclude to make it their abiding
place. nine of every ten Of these men, find it neces-
sary to first visit the Atlantic States Some 90 to
bring families, some to marry, and others to see
once more an old father or mother, and take last
leave of their schooboy haunts and friends No
man who has Travelled in this State with his eyes
epen or has read the papers of the day. will ques-
tion that almost all Cafornians who consider them
selves permanently located, have made at least one
visit to the East, since their first arrival here
These men should certainly not be pounced down
upon by soulless corporation of nabobs, and made
to pay an exorbitant price for going for their fami-
lies merely because they have the money 1t is
certainly not wise for people to countenance
such outright robbervfor all that is exacted over
rates of fare From N. York, as robbery
Rather put fares on equality to and from our
State, and let men, by one, see the advantages
that we posses, of climate and SOIL and try their
fortunes in the exhaustless mines of California and
the State will soon enough be populated by
those who come here to make their homes, because
they prefer the country to any other,