Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-03
THERAYTO FRREUNE.

THE WAY TO FORTUNE.
From the time Of it's discovery until
our own day, California was in the
hands OF the Spanish race. While in
their hands, its vast mines and fruitful
valleys were valueless. There was no
progress, no advance in wealth, civiliza-
ton, knowledge, and the arts Of life.
Another race seized upon its riches, ex-
| plored its mountains, peered into its
secret recesses-and see the result! Is it
possible that 1Ue ere at this moment liv-
ing in the midst Of country whose ele-
ments of wealth, whose power Of con-
tributing to human comfort, we have
never been at the trouble to penetrate?
Things happen now and then that tempt
us to think so, and when they do we
feel like wishing for some superhuman
power by which We could approach
every dwelIer in the valley Of the
lower Mississippi, shake them as the
wind moves the forests; sound
the truths they ought to know as they
know their. mother. tongue, into their
ears with the force and solemnity of
thunder peals; open their eyes with cor
ruscations IS gtsring as the morning
sunbesms on the mountain snow. "Facts
are stubborn things" and we will try
whether q hard, clear. simple, stubborn
fact will not arouse some reader OF the
APPEAL. from the almost Spanish indif-
ference that has so long sighted the
good gifts nature has lavished so gener-
ousIv around US. In Denver City, Colo
RADIO. is q mercantile firm which, obserV-
ing that the nature Of the country and
the pursuits of the miner-to which
must be added the vast intrusion Of i'm
migration - left the people deli
Gent in a supply Of food, I'M
dertook largely to supply that
deficiency. One year they had an agent
in Sacramento City, whose dealings fer
vegetables and fruits shipped to Denver,
reached the sum of one hundred and six
thousand dollars. Next year the same
agent went to Galveston, Texas, and did
his shipping to Denver from that city.
This year, on his way south in the same
pursuit, ne stopped at Memphis to see
what was doing here. Quickly he dis
covered that this was the best place he
had vet found. He commenced opera
lions. One week is not over, yet ].
H. Martin, Esq, of the firm OF Martin
& Cornforth, Denver, Colorado, hiss
spent in this city one thousand five hum
dred dollars on Front street, principally
for Tenpessee-grown potatoes. Is that
fact stubborn enough to wake up" the
Western Tennessean? Mr.. Martin
is here now, busy, day by day,
barreling and shipping off products
We have never enough valued-so little,
indeed, as to have bought them from |
I'D the river, when our sun and our soil |
will beat up the river with half an in
finitude to spare. Mr.. Martin finds he |
can send to Denver quicker from Men,
phis than from Sacramento, and at one !
hundred dollars less expenditure for |
every carload. With the Irishman we
ask, "D'ye see that now?" We want,
also, to point out another fact that is not |
only 8 stubborn but q stupid fact. No |
Tennessean told this Denver firm what
advantages Memphis and West Tennes-
see could Offer-they had to come here,
discover them, and now he is telling US.
He certainly puts us in mind of those
folks at Suffers Mill who told CalifOr-
MIA that its soil swsrmed with
gold. This gentleman says we
do not, even now-and we
are doing wonders compared with
old times-make an approach toward
getting all from our unrivalled soil that
nature stands ready to pour out in TN
stinted lavishness. The apple that is
sent TO market to-day, little larger than
a chiId's marble, would be Of a size to
bring exactly two dollars where 1t brings
one, il the tree on which it grew, and the
the soil around it, were only the objects
of the ordinary care that all culture re-
quires. We have excellent agricultural
publications.; every neighbOrhood can
carry on farmers club, and obtain the
neLG6EdIN luSlINCslOLl anu bOSaS AOA
study. There is a glorious country
around US, if we will only throw off Span
ish lethargy, open our eyes, look abroad,
and intelligently set to work
to make the best Of what kind PrOvi-
dence has given US. Our country is
splendid one, on'y let the industry en-
ployed upon it be directed by brains,
and we shall know no more of the sigh
ing, dropping, sinking, moaning, anx-
ious, evil-anticipating spirit that has
crippled our energies and clogged our
endeavors. The world is awake and
living; thinking men are they who will
possess and govern it-let US listen to
the voice from Colorado that is speaking
in our streets, recognize the rich Califor-
MIA we have around US, and with indOm-
liable tread, march on the wsy to for
time