Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-11-29
ABOUT CALIFORNIA.

The Baltimore Sun has in California n
correspondent whose letters are always
replete with practica, information and
good sense. in recent communication
it says:
Millions for speculation, but not dime
for industry, is what is the matter with
San Francisco. The leading commercial
paper intimates that it is nc: the industry
of the Chinese, but the laziness of the
whites and the industrial adherence of
capital, that causes the general prestation,
and that it is sure to retard our recupera-
ton indefinitely. What California re-
quires is a large accession of more in
dustrious race. We want men inclined
to invest in manufacture, we want farm
ers, not mere wheat growers and soil ROB.
bers. But with these must come capital.
There is immense overstock of capital
here for gambling in stocks, cornering in
merchandise, lot specuating, and for all
purposes involving no industry. But for
manufacturing not dime. Our wool
and hides we send 1000 miles, via Cape
Horn, TO be made into cloth and shoes.
and brought back to us. These, il we
bad New England industry and capital,
we should be making at home. We send
away furs and felting to be made into hats
and wraps. Our agricultural machinery
we import. Even soap and candles also.
Though we have the best white vinegar
and vegetables, we import pickles. Hogs
run wild, yet we buy hams, fitches, and
lard abroad. Nearly all our coal oil is
from Pennsylvania, yet we have twice as
large range ot coal oil of our own. We
buy vast quantities Of hydraulic ce-
ment abroad, yet not excepting Port
land, England, there are nowhere more
nor finer material for making it than at
our Santa Cruz.
We buy all our iron and stock-an
enormous amount-while iron ore, fuel,
and lime are right at hand. Foreign beer
and ale cost US extravagantly, while our
hops and barley are far superior to all
foreign growth. Even butter and cheese
we import largely, TO our shame. Gram
berries, chiccory, hops, and oatmeal, ,
crackers, olives, rasens, fruit>preserves,
prunes, nuts, tobacco, and cotton we buy,
while we nave every facility for raising
them here, always excepting industry.
Every bushsl of grain we use and ship
is packed in East India sacks, which we
can cheaply make from our own wild
textiles.
We ever import foreign wines largely
aduterated, while our country is covered
with vineyards and our own wines are
pure, wholesome, and well favored. We
could extend the list, but enough is given
to show what field there is here for prof
table industry in the most genial climate
in the world, and in land literally flow
ing with milk and honey, and teeming
with every variety of food to gladden. the
heart and tickle the bowels of the faithful
After this expose let no rlan say "Thsre
is no chance for industry everything is
overdone." On the contrary, nowhere on
this broad earth has any nation such in
ducements to offer to willing hands and
hearts. There are here mines of copper,
antimony, manganese, and chrome that
can be get for a song. Farmers can raies
cotton, but we have no factories to buy it,
Silks, also. but no reeler to buy the CO.
coons. Tea gardens would cover our hill
lands, but there is no industry to marip-
ulate and prepare the leaves. We have
20, 900 idle hands waiting FOR something TO
turn up, grinning at all these waiting in
dustries and wondering why other people
do not 60 to wsrk.