Arizona citizen., 1878-07-19
Eo San Frnnctsc0.

m!Nu or 'nc NlStlpr 10 NAn IhnclScn, l who has iravele over the Southern Pacific Railroad from Yuma 10 thel metropolitan city and sees he bu-yI crowd surging ever to and fro, is, what do all these people do and how doi they manage to obtain sustenauce. Al natural question loo is this, for, leav- ing Yuma about D. m, he cars take him all night long over the great desert where ihe only human beings. save wandering bands of Indians. arcI the few enplo, q of the railroad com pany, and 'un after day break, stop for a short time. al Cnltnn. within view ni he beau iful city of San Der nardin0, where live snme thoUsands of people; thence onward they speed him again through country pleasant indeed 10 lhe Sght, wHh orchards. orange groves anu vineyards on either Eand, bu! where vast tracts are pointed out a, the lofily domains of great land barons, winch make their owners alone rich, but give no homes to the industrious settler that would maNe ihe State rich. ill Lls Ang Is, Nuh is l2,0O0 TT l5,OOJ pc ,ple ues led in the mids. of fruit anI fl iIwers, affords hlm an inviuas resting place. Starting anew from ihis angelic spot. along the daZz.ed stranger iS rapidly borne through the San Fernando valley. owned principally by few men. through lhe San Fernando mnun;rin- ant out unto The great waste O. the
 N0have deserl, over and through the barren Tehtchipi range, with the track twisting and bending upon itself, wrilhing almost like a snake, into ihe San Joaquin valley gre-n wi,h grain for fully TWO hundred miles, with here and there settlers house, and here and there a town, turning ptf towards the west al length at Lathrop, leaving Stockton with its 1000 people 8 short distance 10 the north, thea through the | Livermore and San LeandrO valley. knots of paradise" inln the classical shades of flower bespangled Oakland,
 with lts claimed population of 51,0l0, and across the bay, where float ,he ships of hundred flags, To fine great city of the Golden Gle, claiming within its limits 33JO0) inhabitants. With such an aggresaiion of people
 n the cities and few in the counir, ,
 with S, many c3nsu nrrs and such a llimnei number of froIacers, il is in Legd strange that all manage io su7lain life.
 The area of C hfornia, in round
 numbers is 190,0OJ square miles, and
 lhe tpial population is estimated a,
 about 750.O00 Ot this number San Francisco claims 3J0OJ0. Oakland
 sbout 5O,00O, Sacramento 20O0O, San Jose. Lrs Angeies, Stockton, Grass | Valley. Vallejo, Santa Ro-s and per haps other cities from 10000 Io lJ.OO0
 each. Here then in nine cities Art
 cinfiled nearly 5O0,OOO people, and in
 the lown~ and villages, scattered every
 where through ihe mountains and ya.- llevs. from one end of the State tO the other, there must be 15J,000 more,
 a, least, living upon he labor and productions of the remaining lO0,00C who cultivate ihe soil. raise the cattle
 and work the mines Knowing thai
 primarily, all aith comes from The earth. is this moi evidently an abnormal icnndi'inn of affairs and one wei Icalculated Co occasion discomfort, rest llpssness and crimeg With nearly one
 half the population of The entire Stai' Ihuddled together within the thiriy-sil square miles embraced within 'h, county limits of San Francisco, vii more people there than live in the vas enuire of the Staes and Territories excepting Calif,rnia, west of the R'ckl mountains. tne clty Is evidently over grown. Occupying command.n; Dnsi ion ln influence the trade of tn
 Pacific with means of communica'ioI connecting il with all parts Of 'h 10 world. with abundance of .spital an'
 linen of energy, San Francisco today ! n, ver,heless dul, unproEre~siye, "itI D ,ba icnnrant class d ,miJant and
 feeling of distrust and want of con
 tilence prevalent.
 e Not only is there a monopoly e
 populsli n. but all great industries az s concentrated in a few hands. Tn D Ronanza Firm, en,hroned in The Ne' ada Bank. has sn tight grip on lh money and stock markets, that a ,; others. no mater how daring and e, ierp7ising in past years, quail whe brought into contract with a power s
 great ,Eat A mere tura of it's hand wi ; crush them forever; an1 il Is current Ibelieyed that this powerful hand :, also grssping me, enterprise an il energy must, of necessity transfer then
 selyrs to some section which has n' :, vet been encircled by single finger n inc Bonanza Kings. Again the Cenir' I and southern Pacific Railr0sd Con ,anies hold control of all trsnspnr'' .a ion routes leading by land io and fr"i
 ,be city. While il would be far bette
 il this great power were distribute