Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-28
that navigate their canals and rivers in a
Il 81, ncn Of $50 Eilnnna farc

that navigate their canals and rivers in
Distance of $50 kilometers.
These datas are not the fantastic dreams
of julie Verne, but sorrowful realities for
the old world. wornout and decrepit
The agricultural products of the United
States are transported from their most re-
mote regions to our ports with growing
velocity and cheapness.
In 1881 the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company inaugurated a service of trains
between New York and Chicago, running
in twenty-six hours ! 40 kilometers. The
cost of ton of grain from the West to the
central railroad station in New York was
for kilometer in 1868, six cents Of a
peseta, and in 1878, two cents, and the
carrying Of cereals by the three principal
lines of the West, also by ton and kilo
meter, was of four cents two mills of
peseta in 1868, and two cents in 1873.
Consequently the price of transportation
was lowered 40 per cent in ten years.
To-day, owing to the competition between
| new companies of railroads and the navi-
cation by canals, rivers and seas, transport
tltion Is growing cheaper every day in the
| United States. In the meantime that
from Areyalo to Barcelona, wheat costs
| 6.29 pesetas the 100 Kilograms, and $40
and 80 from Medius and Nalledolid to
our city, in trade from California to BARGE
Iona, costs to $50 pesetas and New York
.43 the 100 kilos.
As the North Americans possess album
dant grain, they have engaged in the man
ufacture of -four. In 1880 there was in
| London an exhibition of milling hachin-
cry. The Americans came there, and they
| ,.as4.I IL. e Al.
travels, where they work powerful ma
chinery, moved by steam, for the elabor-
alton of -four and in Il short time there
appeared in the West, in st. Paul and
Minneapolis, MIMI place where the
Mississippi has a fall of fifty feet in hight,
twenty-five great Touring mills. The mill
called Minneapolis may, forcing its pro-
duction, alone supply the market of Lon
don. These mills are supplied with all
kinds of articles and elevators, and have
at the foot a line of railroad. In 1885
they exported 10,64S,000 barrels of -four
The cultivation of the vine takes singu-
lar flight in the United States. The soil
and climate favor the life so that they
bud and vegetate in many districts spon-
taneously. In 1880 they cultivated the
vine in thirty-five States, and to an extent
of 60,257 hectares. The production of
wine advanced the cipher to 1,064, S04
hectoliters, valued at S13, l26,000 Cali
| fornia is the country Of the vine, and then
| follows Ohio, Missouri, Illinois end New
York. In day not very far the United
States will be one of the first vinicultural
countries of the world
That they may comprehend the rich
pecuniary importance of the United States,
We cite the official data of 1885 alone
Had in said year II, 100000 horses, 2,000,-
600 mules and asses, 100000 of the
bovine race, 100000 sheep and $4,000
| 600 hogs.
The lack of space prevents us from pa
rading all the products of the United States
and our country, but it is not necessary
to be sharp-sighted to comprehend that
over the seas exists an enemy terrible and
powerful; that if its iron hand is not de-
tanned will dry the rest OF our sap, and
agriculture will perish.
The principal secret of the economic
| force of the United States is its activity
and intelligence, spirit and strength to the
warmth of protection, without example in
the world. The average import duties
that from 1889 to 1861 (before the war;
was 1884 per cent, has been, from 1862 to
1866, 1895 per cent. 1t is no wonder,
since that 1860 epoch, that the United
States abdicated the sorrowful errors of
free trade, its expectation was only $780,
100000, when to-day they are over S726,-
100000.
The nations of Europe already know the
secret. France promulgated on the 18th
of March, 1885, the law quintupling the
duties of entrance of foreign goods, and
laws prohibiting the entrance of pork from
the United States and Belgium, Italy, Rus
STA, Germany, aud, lastly, the Argentine Re-
| public, has raised It's duties.
Spain, whose critical situation is not
exaggerated, needs, among other remedies,
| defense from foreign competition. Each
day it is more threatening. Raise the i'm
port duties, and the Government takes care
that without justification they are paid on
the frontier and in the ports;but at the proper
time cheaper the rates on the Spanish
railroads and employ in many districts
greater activity and intelligence in culti-
walton, and then we will not read in con-
sular reports or in foreign market reviews
that our wines and oils, principal products
of our soil, are repealed by bad elabora-
lions, authorizations and careless packing.
We have much, very much to do to
moue the Government, but much also the
Spanish will have to do, we repeat.
If they will restore our decayed agricult-
ure.-JOse Elias dc Motins.
! (t) For greater clearness we supnress the fraa