, 1877-08-04
Our Resources and Wants.

interests are destined W CicNdtV "O' !"
degree of wealth and prosperity, un-
dreamed of by her most sanguine adj
mirersN
What the mines have been to CaIitor-
nio our timber lands have been to
this territory. They have made US
what we are at present, and they are
destined to play an Important part in
our future development for long time
to come. It is by no means our only
resource. California has no natural
commercial advantages that are superior
10 ours. Great commercial lines oil
.,eam and sail navigation, stretching
across and up and down the Pacihc' IL
conferred here would find as great advanta'
resand good accommodation as anywhere
IN the world Connect us by rail with
the Willamette valley, with the vast
regions east of the Cascades and the At
lantic states and line of commercial
marine would follow as natural conse-
quence. rc
We have lust as rich mines as Caliior-
MIA ever had, of coal, lead, copper, silver,
rold aad iron ores that assay as high as
their richest bonanzas, undeveloped,
waiting for the magic wand OF capitol to
make known and offer to the speculator
in the money marts of the world
We have water powers just as nature
formed them, enough to turn all the
machinery of the world. Iron the great
ciyilizer OF the nineteenth century, is
laid down in paying quantities in every
country. The foremost commercial ma
,ions of the world are beginning to look
with longing eyes upon our magnificent
forests of ship timber. None complain
Of our climate except such as find fault
wherever they 60. Many persons when
thew start for new place draw map OF
the country with picture Of its features
and scenery, all filed in with beautiful
eoloring, in their minds eye, and then on
their arrival, take one look, and finding
some expected feature or scene wanting
or transposed, leave in disgust because
this new frontier country does not pos
scss All the advantages Of an old settled
community.
We have not only good climate, but
luxurant soil. True our territory is
not all fenced in and dotted all over
with villages, farm houses and country
villas. The land is in its natural state
vet, majority fit. No man who has
redeemed it, subdued and cultivated it,
has ever had reason to complain of spar
city of yield. Nowhere is the husband
man paid better for his labor. But
farmers do not get paid for doing roth
ing. Crops cannot be harvested that
are not put in the ground first and tend
ed afterwards. We come just as near
doing that in this country as any other.
Let us do little summing up. We
have as good commercial advantages,
as good natural railroad communications
ss extensive fisheries, as fine natural
water powers, as rich miaes of undevel-
oped ores, more extensive timber lands,
much of our agricultural lands equal In
richness to the valley of the Nile; all
these natural resources, mostly in al, un-
developed state, but as capable of paying
as good dividends on investments, as
such resources ever pay in any other
part Of the world.
Why are we not prosperousl Because
all this natural wealth needs invested
capitol, industry and enterprise to devel.
op it. Connect the Willamette valley
and the country east of the Cascades by
raIl with the Sound and the products of
these valleys will come here for shipment.
Let the Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake
road be built. We need throw nothing
in its way. The necessity of communi-
eating Portland with the waters of the
Sound will be greater than ever. Build
ing that road does not remove the heavy
towage and pilotage from the Columbia,
or the bar from its mouth. The greater
TIL amount to be shipped to and from
Portland the sooner will the road be
built from there to the Sound. She
may become the great Chicago of the