The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-10-24
yoRE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CUES
TION.

referred to =" The INTERIOR we hav
had more immediate reference to tn
mining regions of California; tour own
in Nevada, being reckoned in, of course
taking it for granted that, notwithstand
ing the many drawbacks by which thu
farmers and vine growers are surround
ed, among that class, at least, there
existed comparative prosperity and
thrift. But it seems that we have
taken too much for granted. 1t comes
TO light through San Francisco paper
that even the great "grain growing in
terest' of California is quite as much
depressed by the abnormal state OF
things which exists in that city as the
traders in mining camps, quartz opera
tors and others who have not the tillage
ofthe sell to fall back upon as au as
surance of independence The San
Francisco Chronicle in its issue of the
- inst, treats, briefly, of the wheat
question, calls attention to the fact
that while the best wheat in the world
Gully brings from sixty to ninety cents
per bushel there, an inferior article
sells in Chicago at prices ranging from
s. y TO 81 ~ and publishes, in the
same connection, an extract from a
letter from a farmer in Santa Clara
County which reads as follows:
There is no home trade with US of any
importance and all depends upon foreign
demand. Were we situated 1000 miles
frem England we could ship regularly, and
would soon become the greatest wheat-pro-
Gucing country in the world. But we are
surrounded by countries that either produce
what wheat they need, or require but small
supplies from abroad. Mexico, China and
Japan take next to nothing. We cannot
look to shipments to New Yo:k SO long as
they have good harvests in the East !; nor
can we find margin for England when
Europe has fair crops.
In response TO this, the Chronicle
says:
The fact is, as we stated in the article re-
ferred to by our correspondent, that the
high price..of land and Of labor here, together
with the exorbitant and moustrous freight
tariff, which is kept up in this port by the
ring" that controls freights, make wheat
growing in the present condition of things
very poor branch of agricultural industry.
Cur farmers ought to bestir themselves and
discover some other crop, not grown every
where. something peculiarly adapted to our
soil and climate, in raising which they could
realize reasonable profit. Atpresent our
agriculture, so far at least as wheat is con-
eerned. is the most oppressed Of all the in
Gastries of California.
This paragraph is as remarkable for
It's candor es for the amazing philosophy
C its conclusions. 1t has come to a
more wonderful pass when farmers are
urged to abandon the raising of the
ouly crop for which their lands are
test fitted because, forsooth, unnatural |
and unjusti6able causes are arrayed |
against them. Has San Francisco not
ouiy ruined ard sapped the industrial
aul mercantile interests of the mines, |
bGt throt,led the agriculture of Cali.
fornia as well ? Is everything tributary
10 the game of cent per cent every
taiug subEervient TO close corporation
{. monopolists and usure-s Is it pos
siale that the most legitimate business
Lron earth, that of the husbandman,
must be forced from the pursuance of
lis irgitimaey and resort TO uakeshifts
.li ventures of hazard?
The Chronicle, while it speaks boldly
and from truthful incentives, is lesson
itself. 1t has probably the largest
REGULATION Of any paper in California.
Why ? Because, being an excellent
medium of news, it is furnished to the
.eoHle ct the rate OF two cents per
copy Or FIVE dollars year 1t illus.
rates the old, old fact tina, business to
lie successful must be broad 10 its ten
ieucies. Il stands as living denial of G
Be state of things by which it is sur )
-yunded, high prices or none; two per i
ent. per month or pennilessness; money i,
asserting itself TO be the standard of '
alues when that standard is labor I
If the whole moneyed and mercantile /