Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-07

its climate is Incompatible. There are
vast deposits Of the royal metals-gold and
silver in the adjacent mountains. Great
forests cover the mountain ranges and
there is every kind of cheap and lasting
building material The Sacramento river
furnishes cheap transportation to the Bay
of San Francisco, and thence through the
Golden Gate to every part OF the
world. From its wharves and warehouses
net works of railways radiate to all parts
of the coast. Sacramento within the past
ten years, has silently but steadily built up
a system of varied manufactures, and is
still extending that system. Her ware
houses contain the largest stocks of goods
in the State. In educational institutions
the Capital City occupies foremost rank
Her school buildings are numerous and
commodious She has the largest art gal
lery west of the mountains, and it is being
utilized to establish schools that will make
that city the art center of the coast. Its
residences are among the finest in the State
and its citizens are energetic, hospitable
and enterprising. They know that the
possibilities of their city are boundless.
and they are determined to realize those
possibilities if energy and enterprise will
do it. A powerful factor in working out
the development of the Capital City is her
press, which in ability and enterprise ranks
with that of older and larger cities. Any
forecast of the future of the Pacific coast
that does not include Sacramento viii be
sadly incomplete. There is no reason why
the city at the junction of the American
and Sacramento rivers should not within
the next fifty years rival the present wealth
trade and population of Minneapolis and
Kansas City. They each have nearly
100000 people. The country tributary
to Sacramento is as rich as that which
pays tribute to either Of those cities"
Our contemporary INDUCES in some little
exaggeration in its estimates regarding
present business investments; but this
is minor matter. The spirit of the arti-
Gle is Just, and the conclusions drawn are
logical and justified by the facts and the
reasonable probabilities of the future.
Calmly examined it will become apparent
to any just mind that the perseverance and
determined spirit that has made and kept
this a city, and built up for it great
trade, will insure it a splendid future.
Natural and artificial obstacles are never
confronted and overcome by commerce ex-
cept at points where there is positive de
mand for the latter. Trade naturally seeks
the easiest avenues to reward, and when it
stands firm before endeavors to drive it
from given path, it testifes to the natural
fitness and advantages of that line Of
progress for it. Sacramento's CONNER
cial importance has been maintained in
the face of discouragements that in
vast majority of cases would have proven
death to endeavor. These have mainly
DSCil OfCISoilt HI Otll SdSS. 1lSlC lOulitliS
now fair and honorable competition with
other points, and the threat to destroy
utterly the navigation of the river. The
question of heavy taxation will soon be
eliminated from our business problems;
the restoration of the river must be had,
and the causes that threaten its integrity
be effectuaily and for all time checked.
When these two things are accomplished
this city will offer TO business and
upon the whole coast 1t is now, with all
the threat of river destruction and the
legacy Of debt, one of the most prosper
ous and progressive of cities What it
will be when all its burdens are cast off ii
needs no prophet to forecast. 1t is no Sc
cret that taxation has been unduly heavy
in this city, and that hydraulic mining is
a menace to our safety in more ways than
one. To attempt to deny these patent
facts would be the worst business policy
imaginable. But it is true that there is
nearly an end, if the people will it, to the
one, and a certainty that the other will be
speedily removed. This people is equal to
the task of displacing both him
ORANGES to their more rapid advancement,
and they will do it, with the same vigor
and spirit that has characterized them in
the past in founding and maintaining
city whose bow of promise is plain to view.