The Shasta courier., 1870-09-24
California Need.

The following beautiful and appropriate
remarks were made by Mr.. Lyman, at a
meeting of the eastern editorial visitors to
California;
He said the grand recipe tor lasting
prosperity is to create home market for
every home product, and base high civil
lization upon diversified industry The
ocean on. one side, the snowy peaks and
wide wastes on the other, you own rich and
varied rural wealth-pines on the noun
tains, redwood on the hills, oaks in the
valleys, the fig, the pomegranate, the or
ange, the apple and the pear, all growing
and fruiting in the same garden. Sheep
climbing the rocks, cattle ranging On the
plains, streams used in their upper courses
to wash gold, and afterwards diverted to
irrigate valleys; bark for tanneries, soils
for fax and hemp, elegant veined and mot
tied wood for cabinet work. marble, sand
stones, porphyry and granite. clays of all
sorts, stones Of various names. Silver in
the hearth of desolate hills, and gold
cleaning in every line of quartz; coal,
timber strong and constant winds, masses
of falling water-these all, with one accord
point to the brilliant future that awaits
you if you can but master the prime law of
your situation, the golden rule of political
economy. To illustrate: You are repor-
ted by a carfu statsticiant of raise at least
eighteen million pounds of wool. In max
ing pair of blankets, such as the climate
of San francisco requires upon every bed
the year round, sixteen pounds of wool is
consumed; at present prices that wool can
be bought for three dollars You pay ten
dollars for pair of such blankets. The
seven dollars for the manufacture is of
more than double the importance to Cal :
fornia than the three dollars for the sheep
raiser; for, while Il c spinner and carder
and washer and fuller and bleacher and
jobber is making his seven dollars, he
wants bread and. meat, timber aud stones,
land to build house, milk, and horses,
and perhaps wines, all of which you who
own farms are only too glad to furnish HIN
Of hides and leather; so of cabinet
woods; SO of iron and timber SO Of the
shining stones and the precious metals
You should not use the ocean that rolls
along these shores, Or the railroad that
scales you Sierras to float or to roll away to
distant artisans the raw staples Of the land.
In the long lun factory is tier pro-
perty than mine; there is more true
and lasting wealth in machine that draws
mouths tp your door than in a machine
that coins eagles. | see some marks of
over pansion in certain directions; your
papers speak of some discouragement, as
falling rent, and some ranches that pay a
low interest If California has made a
mistake it has been in over estimating the
value of hard money and untitled land,
and undertaking the importance of varied
industry. Many dreamed that the per
petual rivulet of shining coins would enrich
all. Some thought that trans continen-
tai railway would food the slope witt
wealth Too much confidence must not be
placed in currency that represents Cur
rency only. When ship or rail car is
used to carry away wealth in the raw, as
wool in the fleece, leather in the hide, or
silver in the dross. such snip or car, in the
end, IS damage, not help. 10 the long
run it makes few rich but many poor.
The true use for ships and cars is to bring
in workers and take eway articles made
valuable mainly by the work they repre-
sent.