Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-06-08
Encouraging Prospects.

| From all sections of the coast come cheering
reports of local prosperity, and not for years
have the prospects of a bountiful harvest been
better, or labor in the mining communities been
more generally rewarded. The influx of emf
grafton still continues, and instead of falling
off in numbers every arriving steamer multiples
our population by few hundred, and shows
margin of nearly one-half over the departures.
At present we occupy the most fattering position,
perhaps, as regards the general prosperity of our
people, of any portion of the Union. Few who
desire opportunity, and have the disposition
to secure employment, are living in idleness, and
business in every department of trade and mech
anism hourishes. The necessarics of life are
procurable at rates quite advantageous as in
any portion of the Eastern States, and the prn-
cipal articles of food, as breadstuffs and meats,
are obtained at much lower figures than indica-
ted by New York retail market reports. Flour,
which sells in Atlantic markets at nineteen dol
lars per BARREL and which alone is large item
to the man who receives but one dollar per day
| for his labor, is to be had in San Francisco at
less than so per cent. reduction those rates.
| Many farmers in remote sections of the State
have but recently been afforded the opportunity
of employing improved implements for harvest
ing their crops to advantage, and throughout the
mining counties numbers who never before titled
an acre of soil will in future rely upon their own
resources for the production of cereals for home
consumption, and the proportion now absorbed
in those districts will in future help to supply
the demands of Eastern and European markets.
The industry of our people meets with more
liberal recompense than those of other States,
and the laborer who receives two dollars per
diem will not exchange the scene of his opera
tions for where but half that amount is es-
teemed q fair recompense for his services The
agricuturst with US is not compelled to provide
against the SHOWS of five months of winter, and
jack frost cannot play such havoc with fences
and crops as he is wont to do under Atlantic
skies. In some portions of our State two crops
of grain and one of grass are yearly harvested
from the same soil, and the interim of time can
be pleasantly and proftablv employed in plant
ing and rearing the orchard and vineyard. Min
ing will no doubt be carried on in districts yet
undeveoped long after the bones of the first har-
dy adventures have been committed to the
tomb, and history will repeat itself in chroni-
cling rich strikes and rehearsing the ofttold sto
ry OF fortunes exhausted IN the search for gold.
If there is one feature of our condition which
might be amended, and of which we cannot
speak encouragingly it is the presence of too
many non-operatives, or dependents. Sturdy
farmers and miners, and skilled and unsklled Ia
Dor is needed to insure future prosperity, and
when these requirements have been supplied the
professions which are now too numerously rep
resented and langushing in our principal cities
and towns, may find profitable employment, and
mercantile interests receive the patronage requi-
site to success, and which is unproductve
of profit, owing to superabundance of compe-
tition in a market bountifully supplied with the
staple articles of trade.
The commercial wants of the coast daily
increasing, and San Francisco ship-yards offer
the only extensive facilities for construction and
repairs afforded the shores of the Pacific
The growing export business in grain, -four, ores
ETC., demands additional tonnage, and the open
ing of commercial intercourse with Asiatic ports
will augment this demand, ana its requirements
not long remain uunoticed by ship-owners of the
East who now complain of decreasing trade, and
idle capital invested in splendid sailers anchored
in Atlantic harbors.
Altogether, our State to-day occupies an envi-
able position among its sisters of the Union, and
we have cause for congratulation in the fact that
the inert condition of affairs.
industrially and financially, throughout the
country to the Eastward, we remain unaffected
and fourishng.