St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-27

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them at a considerable value. How
ever, with moderate capital and dis
position to put up with the more moder-
ate gains of patient industry, there are
opportunities for people to come here
and live in comfort and competence,
and undoubtedly to realize an immense
advance on their investments in a COM
paratively few years. The immense
ranches of from ten thousand to fifty
thousand acres will sooner or later be
divided up and furnish good homes for
a hundred proprietors where there is
now one.
Young men who depend upon their
hands or their brains for subsistence,
should feel pretty sure that their abil
tiles and accomplishments are of su-
perior quality, otherwise ninety-nine
per cent. of them will be disappointed.
Take the laboring class for instance
They must compete with "Chinese
cheap labor" The multitude of able
bodied men who are wandering about
the country, destitute and fOrlorn, in
search of labor, attests the fact that the
"heathen Chinee" is an important factor
that must be considered in California
society. He does every thing that can
be done with the hands, from cooking
in first class hotels and boarding houses,
to grubbing the stumps from newly
cleared land. He is engaged in every
line of manufacturing, and he "dOes up"
your clothes in the most approved style.
And prOprietors employ them because
they are ''more to be depended on than
American or other foreign labOrers. If
there are labOrers in the East who can
excel them in endurance, skill and fidel-
ity, then they may obtain preference
over the Celestial :" but they should
come armed with a stock of pluck suf-
ficient to carry them over many an Oh
stacle ere they gain fOOthOld which
will enable them to view life with
complacency.
Upon the Chinese question [ may
have something to offer in future let
ter, for it is a subject which will soon
command the attention of the Atlantic
states as it does now that of the Pacific
states.
Now, a word with regard to clerks,
book-keepers, school teachers, etc. AL
most the entire second generation OF
Californians, who are willing to do any
thing, are willing and ready to step
right into the business offices and school
rooms aud perform the duties. There
are, at least ten qualified individuals
watching for every vacancy of any ac-
count which may occur throughout the
state. If young men and women in the
East are quite sure that their abilities
and attainments are of an eminently
superior character, and that they have
the requisite amount of pluck to carry
them over many rough road on the
way to success, then they may not be
disappointed in coming to California
The influence of friends may do much
to initiate one in business and bridge
over many rough place, but after thai
it is the same the world over. 1t il
true that the fact that one has beer
schOoled and disciplined i'll the East il
a good general recommendation bu
there are countless influences which
tend to counteract this advantage.
Visions of land auriferous, lactifer
Gus and mellifluous, ever and anOl
titillate the imagination of certain rest
less individuals. My object is to dispe
any illusion of this character which ma.
be entertained in connection with Cal
ifOrnia.
The simmer of the "Star of Empire
extends too far westward to permi
many hesperian "bOnanzas" to be still
lurking about to surprise somebody
California has seen too much of specn
lators and Adventures. What she nov
wants is the addition to her people o
thousands of good substantial settler
able to buy land and willing to cult
vate it on principles of good husbandry
To such she holds out the most libera
J offers of abundant increase on their in
, vestments, and homes in one of tn
gardens of the earth.
To people possessed of means SUI
ficient for their support and who pa,
, some regard to physical comforts, thi
coast country affords unparalleled at
fractions. The cost of living is n
f greater than it is in the East and wha
, you will eat depends upon your appe
tite rather than the cost and supply
, You may live in little paradise G
flowers and all manner of vegetation
f with comparatively slight expense, an
sit under your own vine and fig tree i
) fact as well as in figure. The societ
f that you may have depends upon th
culture you may possess, since the com
3 position of California's people is th
D most thorough conglomerate that ca
e be found in the United States.
s AS to the comparative merits of th
e various counties in the state as place
= of residence, / am unable to judge frOI
s personal experience. The people of th
e different counties, with the usual locs
n prejudice, may exalt the merits of the
f own sections perhaps unduly in som