The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-09-13

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Khh1a contrast TO all TINS ON exle.
rience han Afforded - Our rieIY] ot&~zpd
genial climate have yielded a variety
of wealth vastly more beneficial to
humanity than the precious metals,
(whiie the energy aud Inventive genius
lOf our people are developing manufac-
lures that not only enrich the COM
munity, but fertilize the streams of
commerce. rG IL
The wheat, barley, oats, potatoes,
beans, borax, mustard seed, hops etc.,
gathered from our, fields, the wool and
hides from our cattle, the salmon from
our rivers, the dried and canned fruits,
wines and raisins from our orchards
and vineyards pour ont from the Gold
era Gate ina steady stream, spreading
not only among the islands Of the Pa
cific and the continents watered by its
waves, but extending to the Atlantic
and Mediterranean. Before many years
the myriad jewellers in the valley of
the Mississippi will receive daily and
bounteous supplies OF the oranges,
almonds, olives, lemons, bananas
and other tropical fruits, whose lucious
superiority over such as are imported
across salt water is already strengthen
ingan appetite that will grow by what
1t feedsupon.
Even the sterile plains, where the
sage-bush pr0claims the scarcity of
water, and not a flower lifts its head
above the sand, are found to furnish
eagerly-s0ught pasturage for countless
swarms of bees, and their store of un-
surpassed honey is spread by white
winged ships through lands to which
the swift flight of the gatherers could
never carry them. i IF
Last year upwards of ten thousand
dozen of the brooms made in our fac
tories, from material grown by our
farmers, were exported to Australia,
Japan, and other Pacific countries.
This year. probably, amillion cans of
fish, caught In adjacent waters, will be
shipped to foreign lands. frequently
some enterprising mind devOtes itself
to a vigorous development ola neglect
ed source of wealth, and astonishes the
community by the magnificent results
which pluck and energy accomplish,
with q rapidity rarely seen among
older peoples. Comparatively q short
time ago our townsman. Hayward, Or.
will serve to illustrate the features of
California which we are discussing.
The Sierra Nevadas may be Justly
proclaimed the grandest physical fea-
ture of the North American continent.
Clothing the hillsides which bound
them are thousands of square miles of
forests, comprising fir. white, yellow
and sugar pines, gigantic redwood
trees, and still more majestic sequoia
gigantes. Mr.. Hayward, with far-see.
ing sagacity, has harnessed the noun
tain streams-nature's swift cOuriers-
and by constructing one hundred and
fifty miles of fumes, utilities these
forests. Clinging to the mountain
sides and leaping across the canyons,
lifted in places more than seventy feet
above the earth, these fumes carry the
collected drops from the weeping
glaciers with their burden of "balsamiC
boards" in winding and picturesque
ways from the mountains towards the
sea, and, frau as they look, transported
last year over thirty million feet of
yellow and sugar pine, which YVES
scattered throughout the State, and
helped to erect many home which,
but for Its abundance and cheapness,
might have longer remained hope
instead of a reality to its inmates.
The custOm-hOuse records shO " that
San Francisco last year exported over
$25, 000, 900 worth of our products by
sea alone, exclusive of the great wealth
I'm less bulky condition which we sent
eastward by the overland railroad, and
exclusive Of the gold and silver ex-
traoted from the mines on this coast,
two of which Consolidated Virginia
and California; alone yielded over
thirty millions. That all our wealth
does not go away is evidenced by the
fact that the savings banks In this
city hold over seventy millions in gold
coin, which il chiefly the accumulate
ed savings of our laboring classes.
Surely California has been a paradise
for working people. Itil,tp
Some poet. who has his head full of
political economy as well as q heart
filed with love for his fellow-men,
has praised as the worlds benefactor
the man who causes two spears of
grass to grow where but one grew be-
fore, but his harp would vibrate to a
more exultant ealogyif he could safe
ly float $50 miles on the waters of the
Sierra Flume and Lumber Company.
amid the widest and grandest scenery
nature citu auOru, anu see Tile preVl-
ously Inaccessible forests fastening to
render to man the service for which
they were created. The company will
bring to market fifty million feet the
present year, and, as their supply is
inexhaustible for nalf a century, they
are arranging to secure foreign mar
kets, such as China and Australia, TO
consume their surplus, r,.,,li 0..i,..,.,1
Their sugar pine Is superior in many
respects to the white pine which Bos-
ton and New York have been tor many
years supplying to those countries
and Maine and Michigan must be con-
tent for a generation TO surrender those
nearer markets to their younger sister,
California, which twenty-five years
ago the Hub" newspapers used to
mourn over as bowling wilderness.
Now, amid the solitude of the Sierras,
machinery from. Boston, moved by
Oelting from Boston and managed by
men from Boston, Is making doors,
sash and blinds, of which they will
soon deliver q sbip-load weekly to the
markets which New England mechan-
les and ship-ownen " have hitherto
mohopoiizeu. n