The Georgetown news., 1856-02-14
Want of Employment-What Is to be
Done!

There is world of good and truthful ad-
vice embodied in the subjoined article from
the Alta California, which if it were more
generally needed, would save many young
man from bitter disappointment and want
If instead of lolling about the cities and
towns in listless lethargy waiting for some
thing to turn up" they would go into the
mines with a fixed determination to make
something turn up" they would all find
competency within the reach of honest eff
fort
We frequently receive communications,
from laboring men, like that which we pub
lish elsewhere to-day, headed "What is to
be done?" These communications gener-
ally come from young men who have just
arrived in California. They land upon our
wharves in forbidding season of the year,
almost entirely destitute of money, and i'm
mediately ask for workout it is not easily
obtained. These young men have gener-
ally had but little experience, and do not
know how to struggle with those difficulties
which surround almost every person who
arrives here, who does not know where to
90, or what occupation he should follow
There is perhaps no place in the United
States except San Francisco, where there
are so many things to discourage an mex
perienced person.
A man arrives in this country with but
little money. He sees everything requisite
for his support, in price, very tar above
what he has been accustomed to, and not
obtaining work speedily, the chances are
five to one that he becomes discouraged
His expectations previous to leaving home
were so greatly above the reality, that he
does not place things in as favorable a view
as he ought.
The young man, however, who comes to
California, should not be disheartened, for
he can do far better here than in any por-
tion of the Union. He can go to the mines
and obtain three or four dollars per day for
his services.
loo many young men remain IN our cit
les. They come to California without any
definite idea of the business which they
should follow, trusting for something to
"turn up" beneficial to themselves.
California is no place now for any but
men who are willing to labor diligently in
some useful occupation. A person expect
ing to succeed must husband his resources,
and look for a moderate income The time
has gone by for immense profits. The mer-
chant who succeeds to-day in California is
the man who personally watches every
thing about his establishment. He counts
his profits by hundreds instead of thousands
of dollars. He makes up his mind to work
for small profits if he cannot obtain large
ones, and to make his expenses correspond
with his income.
The labOring man who comes here, can
somewhere find employment at wages very
much above those ruling in other portions
of the Union. By saving his money he may
in the course of three or four years accumu-
late enough to purchase him home. This
however cannot be done by lettering about
drinking houses, or by spending his time in
San Francisco waiting for something to
"turn up" The truth is, California is yet
very good place to make or unmake a
man. The person who comes here and acts
prudently in all things, is sure to better his
condition. (Of course we take into consid-
GRAFTON that he should retain bis health. j.
But it is equally as certain, when man
neglects his business, frequents disreputable
houses, CANDLES, or in any other way goes
astray, giving reins to his passions, that he
will be ruined both in fortune and morals.
Men in California, like persons in other
countries, reach the goal to which the road
tends upon which they travel, only here the
road is shorter and the goal is quicker
reached than elsewhere.