Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-09
CITY AND COUNTRY.

t:uces much .xuitation." will meet with
sore disappointment. That journal adds
tha. the great majority Of this emisra-
ton consists of persons relying upon
their labor for livelihood and possess
ing but slender resources to yield them a
support while out of employment. II
adds: 1T is therefore matter of great
importance that these workinsmen. who
are crouding hither in search Of homes,
should be able to find work promptly.
Ii is easy to declare in a general way
that there is room enough in our fertile
plains and valleys for millions of indus
;rious emigran.s; that any healthy man
willing to work can find work to do. etc.
But the fact is that emisrants do fire.
quently experience considerable d'iii-
Guilty and delay in finding the kind of
employment they seek or for which they
are fit There is nothing rash or eZac
cerated in the statement that we have
ample rooa and large opportunities for
hundreds of thousands of emisrants
who come provided with the means to
purchase and cultivate land or go into
business. But il would be dishonest.
treacherous and cruel TO hold ont the
expectation to persons coming to this
coast. with Just enough means ID brln2
them here, that they viii be sure TO find
profitable employ ment as soon as they
&c. out of the cars" Further along IN
the same article, the -CEroTjcle strikes
the remedy which Californians might
apply. 1t says:
What is needed in order to utilize the
vast tide of emigration that Is now flow
ing westward is that new channels OF
employment shall be opened. II our
capitalists as q class were more enter
prising and more philosophical, if they
were less welded to investments prom
isirg an immediate and sure return; II
thev were more inclined to sagacious
ventures carrying them into new fields
Of enterprise or opening up new indus
tries, there would indeed be work
enough for all the willing hands that are
coming. But unfortunately large por-
ton Of the wealthy men Of California,
though by no means destitute of energy
and liberality, are addicted to running
in familiar grooves and slow to strike
oct into untrodden paths. The high
rates OF interest on good securities
which money has commanded have ten
81. S.f sslt-
lists mere money-lenders. But there are
now numerous signs Of a change for the
better in this: and so soon IS the accu-
INFLATED wealth Of the State shall be de
voted in a large and enlightened spirit 10
the development of our manifold re-
sources, there will be work enough and
70 spare for all
The great trouble has always been in
California that every dollar made in its
mines-and in our own, fog that matter
has been taken to San Francisco for
generally in real estate.
while industries that could have been
built up outside that city have been left
to languish. Money can be obtained in
plenty in San Francisco for eight and
nine per cent. per annum. Outside that
city it is higher. In this State. which
furnishes the principal bullion that
flows into the Pacific metropolis, money
is worth from two to two and half per
cent. per month. Money properly
placed to build up diversified interests
FOR Californis and this State would cree:
mills of various kinds on the rivers OF
California and on this side of the noun
tains on the Truekee, which belongs to
both States. But the past and present
tendency of capital is to concentrate in
San Francisco, and its most active en-
ployment is to raise and depress mining
stocks. The effect Of this is to make
the rich richer and tie poor poorer.
A change may come over the spirit OF
the wealthy men of California after
awhile; when they see that a city to be
permanently great must have a great
and prosperous country to back it up
that the prosperity of city and State are
identical; but not till then.
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