The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-12-04
e Sress OF King County.
one fous CHARGE.

tho decided Territory Is a country
w6efS hehrprises are among the staple
s,.ts - The latest thing in this line
~ =, the No. 49,; e. s BE wsilA walla,,
metropolis, San Francisco. has stes. -
grown ct the expense and to ths l.
nent of the State. For years & hasl
besn . swarming hive and nothing ~
the tssmsndoas yield Of the Nessdt
silver mines has avertsd the induststf|
paric which the Golden City must nov
meet face to face. San Francisco has
today over one third of the population
OF the entire State Of which it is the
ccmmsrcial emporium. . condition Of
Affairs 70 be met with in no other State
OF the Union. Oregon has over ten
times the pspslation Of Portland and
Washington Territory has over twelve
times that Of Sesttle. This il healthy
end proportiopats growth.
Mich of this all head and no body"
s.yls a growth in Californis has arisen
from IL bad financial policy Of San
FTsneisco in the past twenty years.
whsn tasinsss grew dull in San Fran
cisco. the plan WAS genrslly hstcbed mp
70 coococt come wildcat mining ex.
citeuent, like Gold Bluff ON Kern Riv-
er for instance. by which q mercurisl
peopls could - lufed from steady cm
plvymsnt 70 search for chimerical
wealth; and San Francisco was to be
msde the sslly-port This brought the
minen to San Francisco to purchase
outfits and ratrouisc hotels; and in this
wsy the mining counties became pre-
mAtussly dspopulstsd. Nor was this
Ill. To Golden City rcclincd on her
coach Of mooey-bass and stubbornly
rsfussd to cid the interior. save 1t rates
Of intsrsst that werc absolutely prohib-
itory; while San Francisco enterprises
were aidsd upon nominal terms.
while Rslston was plotting the Bank
Of California slowly and surely towards
the quictsands Of ruin. be sought to
sti6e al industries Outside Of San Fran
cisco and make that the only mannfac-
tusi1g city On tho coast. Controlling
I'll tho coal mines u the coast, aud
backed BY wealthy directory composed
Of such svaricious capitalists - Lun-
ning. Reese end Sharon. no showed no
ihvoss to struggling industries outside
Of the great city. If . man owned .
6ns bady OF timber close to a good
water power in the interior, he conld
not borrow dollar at the Bank Of CAL
ifogula; but If he would come to San
FransiDco. ship has raw insterisl thithsr.
seset expensive machinery 10 work itl
upand buy bic coal Of the banks mines.
3alston would let him have all the
nonsy = aaked. In this way San Fran
cisco became great manufacturing
city. ord the industries of the interior
wses passlyscd BY this unjust and un-
genseous Discrimination.
Meanwhile the stock boards kept
gsindisg away ct swindles digai6ed
With the title Of mining. which were
hit ll11ls short q larceny. Go 70 the
CORNER oe California and Montgomery
streets ct noon aud in tho next three
hours Jon will see twenty thousand men
who have fallen out with hard work.
Msst Of thess men ere men Of some cx-
perisncs ~ niners; yet instead e ~
Ing, into tho mines Of Idahs. oseeou
and Warrington, to develop the lAtsat
wealth Of the coast. they walk from
ono bar.rsom 70 another. cursing their
leok ard signing for ''poiatsp % Ophir
~ Crown Point. Meanwhile ssrss apo
Scpts Il virgin mineral lands m lying
i1le tx The want Of ''pruspectins" By
,expseisnosd hauds. Fortunes fAll IL
idle hands bat oDos 10 thoawDd
tluos. e 4 bsttee 10. inil aud aaYa
Hhaa = hs-srsves waiting 70 b. struck
" : bo6a6sa.
We low a. scores of msa Who
wosksd stsadily and patiently sor yesrs
T. 90 A.. s~e~~f.. - N>l3e
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