New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-11-21
THE CALIFORNIA LABOR MARKET.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7.-There il not sol
itary opening In the State OF California; vast 1t IT, for
another clerk bookkeeper salesman, half educated doc
tor, mining stock broker, general adventprar For
five years Mt least have been telling the wOfd
that We orc already delayed with representatives OF
these various producing classes but despite all our
protests the cry is, "S they come" They are here
starving by the Dozen floating on the light at
mosphere Of circumstance, md trusting to- luck III
stick poked into any hsyries In the Suburbs recruit
from army of nothing toos Is likely to be nn
earthed. Caution IL required IN walking around the
vharyos at night to prevent tie pedestrian from STUN
bling nest Of them An er,py dry goods box Is
sure to have its ledger and outside door mat s lux
ury not always atanablc where there are 50 many wan
derng preemptOrs Many OF this eass like the rascal In
the Fleet Prison, mako eight am wholesome break
fass castaway stubs OF cigars, while more take the
morning meal out In sleep.
Were possible for this city gou7like, to grow In
night TO the size and commercial importance OF New
York. have almost enough liable mon here claiming 10
be bookkeepers clerks saesmen, &C.. 10 I'LL all tho open
ngs which the increase would create ss Francisco and
California suffer greatly by this influx. The calls OF
charity certainly promptly met IN this city as In
any place Of like size in tho world but line must be
drawn somewhere. lIf poirproducers. runawaysfrom-
home ne'er do weels" sons haaught professionals,
and Others will crowd he-o-in the majority OF cases
with only a few dollars in their pockets-they can
promise themselves nothing but CHASTITY welcome to
starvation.
There is in the country farms and in our
mines who dig plow. and WELD the pick and
the and for carpenters, acksnith, and shepherds
but for non-prOducers, and men who would rather
SPONGE shirk steal than work. have not an unoc-
cupied Each newcomng representative Of these
classes feels satisfied In bs mind that he Is not wanted
but he thinks that somehow ether he will he excep
tion and that he can squeeze and make "cheek"
calty shape" friends take the place OF muscle and
industry In pushing him along But all his calculations
miscalculations His game, whatever it may be- has
been rung upon with all discharges hundred times,
and is thoroughly "played ont" outside OF the aims
house the State Prison, or the highway We can promise
him nothing. .
have Travelled over nearly every part of the United
States, and have lived in ten OF them and know that
am not departing from train when say that no state
of the Union can offer the worsinglnIh better chance
for independence than California. lis climate Is unsnr-
passed Tor slubThy, its soil FOR fertility, aud its people
that 81 many persons who did honest days
work i'll their lives crowd ont here, expecting to make
and State are most uIJustly blamed. They line our
streets In dlencss and then al'ow newspaper CORE
spondcns write letters TO Atlantic papers representing
speculative furore prevailed in both city and country
lands in 1868 O. everybody Cyp-cting fortune
from the completion Of the Pacific Railroad but the
have since down like very prOsac sticks and now
both farming lands and city lots may Ne bought at mneh
PeoGv Al rs to - pr Gent T pr a HsS mo-
plenty at 10 TO II cent The solid men of the city,
who used 10 Command their own profits as importers, are
now going extensively into manufacturing The farmers,
who used TO. cultivate nothing but wheat and That in
shallow and sOyenly way and who used tO depend
upon the village store for tcr butter eos vegetables
SOAP bacon, &c. attending to diversity OF pro
ducts, and much harder WORKER and more elise and
Intelligent cultyatOrs Railroads are making great pro
gress rwo years ago trip from this city 10 facra-
mentO cost s. by river steamers; IL can DO made by
railroad Tor g. 60 and by steamer for ST. The California
aud Oregon branch OF the Central Pacific RasOad is
quickly building northsard through the largest and
Richest valley OF the and will give 7airnad
communication with Oregon. Tie southern Pacific Rail
road, which ia already III operation to Gi.roy 20 miles
south OF this city, Is aDont TO De extended rapidly south
ward while work with Joaquin Valley, she Peta-
luna and the Humboldt Bay Railroads, and upon three
or four other lines Is either progressing will be.
Everything on the Industrial horizon il Indicative .!
healthy progress and absence OF speculation We have
room for thousands Of workers, who still find plenty
OF the beet farming land in the northeru part OF the
Sacramento Valley and at the southern end OF the san
Joaquin Valley for S To SIS per acre. and In the foothills
of the Sierra Nevada for ~ 80 10 g. Der acre; but have
not even standing room for any lders or hafCdu
Gated professional Of any Class. The state cries for
WORKERS and protests against any further invasion OF
"btatr."