The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-05-10
ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO.

San Francisco, which is always on the
make, is now terribly excited about
mining stocks, and her stock sharps,
whose name is legion, are half delirious,
some over their enormous gains and
others because they sold out just at the
wrong time. The wide sidewalks of
California street.-The Wall street Of the
Pacific coast-between Montgomery and
Sansome, from 10 A. NJ. to p. NJ. are
literally black with assemblies and ex-
cited brokers, and resemble somewhat
the mouth of a beehive in the swarm
ing season. A few rich strikes on the
Comstock lode, over in Virginia City
and Gold Hill, in what is called the
sagebrush State of Nevada, have ad-
vanced in one year the market money
value of the mining stocks, on about
four miles of that lead, at least one
hundred millions of dollars. Crown
Point, that sold about a year since at
$40 share, sells for 1,50O, and Belcher
from S5 to $500. Men who a few
months since were comparatively poor
are now rich. 1t is reported that several
have cleared within the past six weeks
from one TO five millions of dollars each.
Speaking of stocks reminds me that one
gentleman who owned and ran n very
fine and extensive job printing office,
becoming suddenly rich by the rise of
some mining stocks on his hands, put
his office in the market for sale. Mrs.
Emily Pitts Stevens, the active and ir-
repressible proprietor of the Pioneer
newspaper, and President of the Wom-
ans Pacific Coast Publishing Company,
saw that it was offered at a bargain,
closed the contract, made the first pay
ment Of $500, and will now carry on
an extensive book and job printing bus
iness. The capital stock of this Pub
fishing Company is $4,000, divided into
$500 shares at the par value of $40
each. Mrs. Stevens has demonstrated
to the business men of San Francisco
that woman is not only capable of MAX
ing first-class newspaper, but that she
/ is equal to the management of an extern
sive business. OF her success in her
new enterprise no one who knows Of her
energy, perseverance and business tact
entertains the least doubt.
We have not had time to go about
much and renew the acquaintance with
our old friends made nearly two years
since and learn by personal observation
as to the growth Of the suffrage cause in
this city. This labor is not necessary to
obtain a knowledge of the fact that the
cause has numerous and influential
friends both in this city and State.
While neither of the great political
parties is at present prepared to incorpor-
ate Woman Suffrage as a plank in its
platform, the sentiment is very general
among all classes that woman's indus
trial and educational sphere is alto
gether too limited, and that woman
ought to be encouraged to follow any
calling or profession for which she has a
taste, inclination or capacity, and that
she is entitled to equal pay with man
for equal services equally well per-
formed. The lower branch of the Cali
fornia Legislature, '-which adjourned
about month since, adopted two bills
by a large majority, to enlarge the per-
sonal, industrial and property rights OF
woman, but these failed to receive the
approval of the Senate. One of these
bills, adopted by vote of 43 to IL, al
lowed the widow to succeed to the estate
of her deceased husband, and thus de-
strOy the thieving probate system, so
far as it allows the yultures- of the law
to fleece the estate which belongs to the
widow and orphans. The other bill
made women, married or single, eligible
to any official position in the Public
School Department in the State. The
next Legislature will doubtless-be in a
condition to grant to woman all that
she now claims.