The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-10

John +. Miller, senator elect from
California, visited Garfield at Mentor
on Monday, and passed an hour in con-
yersation with the president elect, and
to a reporter he said, yesterday, that he
believed that Garfield would make a
president with whom the people would
be amply satisfied, but he declined to
state the nature or substance of the
interview with him, on the ground that
the talk was entirely confidential. OF
California and her prospects he talked
freely. The gold mining of the state,
he said, is progressing fayorabiy, both
the quartz and gravel mines yielding
good returns. The Comstock lode Of
Nevada, however, is in bad condition,
and the mines are yielding absolutely
nothing at present. They are a con-
slant drain on San Francisco, where
most of the stock is held, taking away
n million dollars a month in the way of
assessments; that is the cause of the
temporary depression in monetary af-
fairs in San Francisco. II makes q
great difference whether the city is
drawing two or three million dollars a
month in dividends. as San Francisco
used TO do, or paying on: a million in
assessments, with no return. The fail
ure of the Comstock, however, has had
one good effect, it has resulted in
almost abolishing stock gambling, that
has ruined so many Californians. There
is no longer anything like a stock mar
ket in the old sense, and the people are
not dealing in stocks so recklessly.
They have got TO bed rock, and from
this time on we shall go on n surer
basis in our financial methods. This is
caused by the decadence OF stock gam
bling. OF course, if n new mineral
zone Is found on the Comstock, the
stocks will advance and the gambling
be resumed, probably with as great a
furore as ever, or greater, but at pres
emit there is nothing to indicate any
such discovery. 1t is TO her agriculture
that California must look primarily for
her prosperity as a state, and her agri-
cultural interests are %iourishing. 1t
may be that the recent foundations
have injured some of the wheat, but
last years. crop was the largest that
California ever had, and this is also
true of Oregon.
In the large and arid region of the
San Joaquin valley they cannot have
too much rain, and the farmers are
looking for very Leavy crops the COM
ing season. The grape and wine inter-
ests are also very prosperous, and the
vineyards are regarded as the best OF
property. The vine growers last year
received $25 n ton for grapes, which was
an increase of 80 per cent. over the
price the year before. This was due to
the partial failure of the wine crop in
France. California wines are coming
into favor rapidly in this country and
Europe, and the result is that more of
our agriculturists are paying attention
to vine growing, and an immense acre
age of vines has been planted during
the year.
With regard to social and political
questions on the Pacific coast, the sem
ator said that there was very little to
be told. Kearneyism seems TO be ut
teily dead in San Francisco, and the
sand lots meetings are no longer heard
of. II is singular, that not withstand
ing the hard times there are fewer UNI
employed people, and less complaint
among the working class of San Fran
cisco than at any previous time during
the history of the city. This is ac-
counted for by the fact that many Of
the unemployed have gone to Washing
ton, Idaho and Arizona, those going to
the latter territory being drawn thither
by the mining excitement, which has
greatly benefited San Francisco, by
attracting some of the worse element of
the population.