The Nevada journal., 1855-07-20
bitches,

decrease of our population 1t is stated
on good authority, that for some time past
the departures from California exceed the
arrivals, and the public are beginning to
feel the importance and even necessity of
adopting some certain measures to attach
the present population to our soil, and in
gite greater immigration. The causes
which have led many OF our citizens to re-
turn to the Atlantic States are variously
stated. The high rates Of fare cannot
have the effect which some aver, because
the rates are much lower to, than from
California There are greater facilities
for crossing the plains than ever before
No alarming epidemics have prevailed
among us. Wages, compared with the
Atlantic prices, are not low, and living is
moderately cheap. No country ON earth
can produce the abundance which the gen
erous soil of. our yallics yields to tho Ag-
riculturalist 1t is not for the want of
money to carry on and support the avoca-
tions of life, for the mines were never
yielding larger returns, and the shipment
of grains and other articles of food from
the Atlantic States, Chile and the Sand
wieh Islands, have now nearly ceased, and
we instead, have become exporters to some
ofthese countries. Thus the money which
formerly went to other countries for arti-
cles of subsistence is now to great ex-
tent retained among us 1t is true that
the late failures of some Of our most prom
inent banking firms has had tendency to
weaken confidence, and many might be
disposed to bury their gold once more in
the soil from which it came, rather thao
trust it in the hands Of those who cannot
give the most undoubted security. Yet,
for those whose securities are approved,
and whose integrity is unquestioned, it is
not difficult to procure any amount ofcap-
ital
No country in the world according to its
population, has circulating medium equal,
or even approaching, to ours. 1t is not
therefore for the want of money that pop
llation decreases Indeed, if there was
demand for labor, millions of capital
now unemp ployed, would seek investment,
thus swelling our currency beyond its pres
ent limits, to which no other country even
now approximatcs 1t, has been alleged
that the vice and immortality every where
prevalent In our young State, and the cor
ruption in public, as well as in private bu-
sinsss, has driven the moral and upright
from our shores and deferred the same
class from leaving their homes in the
East That this has had its influence i:
not to be wholly denied, but we conceive
there is a great cause for the decrease in
our population which all the emigration
societies ever formed will never remove
without applying the proper remedy
There must be demand. for labor and Ia
Dor must be remunerative The laborel
now employed throughthe year, is general
ly amply rewarded, but the demand fol
labor is limited All the mines that WELD
a return with triAing expense are occu-
pied. The mineral wealth of the State
lies deep in the hills, and capital is requir.
ed to develope it Thousands of our citi
aens, able and willing to earn an honora
Die subsistence are, under the existing stat,
Of things, deprived of employment durin,
one half of the year. 1t is common re
mark that "a majority of miners do no
make enough during the rainy season t.
last them through the dry" 1t is not be
cause there are not diggings enough in tn
state to employ ten times the present mi
ming population. But capital is required
to bring the golden veins to light Th,
miner who is dependent upon the labor o
his hands alone, cannot engage in an en-
terprise which will cost thousands of dol
lars Put the available means within hi
reach, and there is nothing the enterpris
ing miner will not dare Give him stream
Of water, aud there is not mountain sc
large, he will not attempt to wash away
Water is the great desideratum, but te
bring it for miles out of deep canons il
channels cut in the solid rock, along tn,
Drinks of frigbtful precipices over yawnint
ehasms in lofty fumes, requires an invest
ment of money and time which only thc
capitalists is capable of furnishing. Tall
about emigration societies whose objec
shall be to increase our population EN-
ploy one half tho surplus capital now ly
ing idle, one half the sums daily paid fol