The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-05-18
SAN Francisco, April Oath, go.
Ma. EDITOR:

several weeks IN The city OF San FRANCISCO,
where one can meet daily people from ev
cry part Of the State, as well as every
part Of the known world, we are con.
strained to believe that we have profted
by this contact, sufficient to warrant
brief expression Of what wc have seen
and heard. BY this assurance we do not
wish to be understood as guaranteeing
anything entirely ne,o but only to present
what seems to be positive and replete
with interest because Of presenting facts,
figures, and phrases of which we in
measure were ignorantbefore. The State
of California embraces such large and
varied extent of country, and is identified
with 80 many resources, commercial, minis
eral and agricultural, that it would furnish
subject matter for many letters; but not
feeling sure Of opportunity to write them,
we will briefly allude to some general fea-
lures, and such as most naturally come TO
our notice.
Having direct communication with
every part of the world her commercial
advantages are very great, and such as
insures rapid growth in wealth and pop"
ulation. The last China steamer arrived
yesterday, bringing 1850 passengers; 1900
ofwhom wore celestial "pig tails, beside
large quantity of freight Every stea-
mer from the Empire brings great num-
Der of this peculiar people, who form a
large element in the population here, and
are becoming identified with all the large
institutions Of the State, and almost every
branch of trade. The Bank Of California
employs several Chinese clerks, and all the
express and insurance companies as well
as most of the largest commercial houses,
from necessity. Several of the wealthiest
merchants and largest importers in this
city arc Chinese. Le-Po-iia, a Chinese
physician, does the largest business of any
DR.. in the state. He has 500 patients
at the present time, mostly Americans.
He is a very intelligent gentleman, and
through several conversations we have
held with him, we gather these general
ideas entertained by his people respecting
their own and this country. In the first
place they esteem themselves superior be-
cauee the history Of their country and
people date back 1888 years, or nearly
1000 years before Moses discovered the
world had been created, and because their
Empire is the largest in the world, and
contains larger population than all Eu-
rope combined. Because this inconceiva
bly, vast population is governed by the
strongest, brightest intellects OF the land,
upon system which was old thousands
of years before the oldest Governments of
Europe began to exist ; because the sci,
ence Of medicine with them, dates back
2000 years beyond the days Of IIipocrates !!
Because education and religion is univer-
sal, even more general than with US. The
DR.. declares thai his people are pre- emf
nently patriotic and more profoundly att
tached, than the people of any other ma
ton in the world, to their own laws and
institutions, and boasts that China was n
great nation ages before what we call the
ancient nations of Greece and Rome had
been founded, and has remained great
nation while its earliest contemporaries
Egypt and Assyria are only known i'm
perfectly in the most ancient Of the earliest
records of our race, and that the Roths-
childs, the Astors, AMI Stewards, among
the millionaires Of Europe and America,
are but pigmies in wealth, compared to
some Of the great capitalists of China.
California is GOO miles long, with an
average width of 900 miles, making an
aggregate area of "a, 4SO,O acres. OF
this amount 60,OOO,OOO are adapted 10
agriculture, 100000 to grazing,
100000 are swamp and OVERLOOKED
land, and lO,4s0, 900 acres are Lakes,
bays, and precipitous mountains. The
Federal Government has granted to the
State 1912, 100 acres of the public
lands The state produced last year a
surplus of wheat amounting to 10000, .
900 bushels, Every climate from torrid
to frigid is within the borders of the state,
and every variety of fruit and vegetable
raised in the totrid and temperate zones,
are produced here. Strawberries, Green
peas, new potatoes cucunbers, abound in
the markets from the first of March until
late in the fall, Silk and wool are staple
products, and enormous quantities of beei
and mutton are produced annually. i, is
well known fact That the mineral re.
sources of this state are unprecedented il
the world We have been assured that
there are at the present time running