San Andreas independent., 1858-02-27
Stockton City, and San joaquin County.

Stockton City, and San Joaquin County.
The advantages of Stockton and San
Joaquin county are unsurpassed by any
other section of the State. The city and
county have been more than doubled in
wealth, within the past two years. In
reverting to these facts, the San Joaquin
Republican thus sums up some of the
many advantages:
" 1t may not be out of place to draw
the attention of parties desirous of inves
| ting capital, to some of the inducements
offered by Stockton and San Joaquin
county, for permanent investment. It is
conceded by those who understand the
relative advantages of different cities and
towns of the State, that Stockton, in all
the elements of wealth, industry and
prosperity is not second to any. 1t is
true that in point of population, she is
but third among the cities. But this
apparent disadvantage is far more than
counterbalanced by the fact that she has
no surplus, idle, or useless population
Her people are an active and working
people. On the score of population,
therefore, she is at least equal to any 9th
er place. Let us see what she is in point
of commercial, manufacturing and gen
eral industrial resources. She is the en-
trepot and depot of the trade of one-third
of the State, by virtue of her geographic
cal position. She enjoys natural facili-
ties for an extensive and profitable COM
merce, not enjoyed by any other inland
town. She offers inducements for the
increase of the active capital now employ
ed, three, four, or five hundred per cent.
She is the best and most economically
governed city or town in the State Her
public debt is but trifing, her credit un-
sullied, her taxes light, and her revenues
ample for the payment of current expen-
ses, interest on the debt, and the gradual
liquidation of the debt itself.
The tenure of real estate is regular,
simple and perfect. Her people are in
telligent, virtuous, industrious and frugal
She possesses theappliances of civilization
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mites. Her climate is unsurpassed in any
part of the earth, and there is nothing
that the physical wants or general neces-
sites of man requires, that is not to be
found here. This is fair, but by no
means exaggerated picture of Stockton
We think it is picture that should at
tract the attention of people whose tastes,
or habits, or necessities, induce them to
live in city, and who live by useful in
dustry. We cannot hold out many in
ducements for those who spend their lives
in idleness. Men whose business it is to
live without capital or labor, vote the
place bore. They find no congenial spir-
its here
San Joaquin county presents to the
farmer inducements quite as strong as does
Stockton to the merchant, mechanic and
citizen. The soil is unsurpassed by any
in the world-it is all convenient to mar
ket; and there is a larger proportion of it
to which titles are clear and fixed, than
can be foundsn any other county in the
State. The affairs of the county are in
a healthy and satisfactory condition; the
debt is trifing, the taxes light, and cur
rent expenses are reduced to the lowest
point. The face of the country is as beau
tiful as the soil is prolific. The farmer
can make larger crops, with less expense,
and lighter taxation, than in any other
part of the State When his crops are
made he can put them into market with
less delay, expense and trouble than he
can do from any other point. These are
some of the inducements offered by this
city and county to men who have capital
or labor to invest. These are some of the
resources that will at day not far distant
place our city and county far ahead of all
competition in point of population, pro-
ductive industry and wealth.