Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-26
THE RESULT OF SECURING A FOREIGN
MARKET.

The wine-makers, grape-growers and
raisin-curers of California are agreed that
their production will very soon reach the
limit of the United States market. In
deed, the raisin-curers assert that the pro-
duction of raisins in 1889 will far exceed
the home demand. The home market,
like a sponge charged with water, will
hold Just so much in suspension, and be-
yond that will reject all efforts to intro
duce more. What our producers need is
steady demand for their products if it
can be made an expanding one it will be
reflected in the enlargement of the indus
try. If the demand for fruit product is
one day, say 5000 boxes and tomorrow
but 5000 boxes and the next 1000 and
then 5000, the market is said to be
unstable, and the tendency is to crowd
down prices and cripple investment in the
industry. An exhibition of our products
in London, in distinct attractive and ex-
haustive exhibition by the State of Cali
fornia will, aside from other important in
fuences upon our industries, more than
any other agency, introduce our soil pro-
ducts to the markets to which we must
look for that reliable augmenting demand
that will give permanence to production,
encourage small farming, division and oc-
cupancy of lands and the full development
of our productive capacity.
The reasons for such an exhibition have
been over and again set forth in these col
umns, but there is one that is of superior
importance; that when foreign market
is once established and source of supply
once recognized by it, they are practically
Interchangeable. Commerce adheres to the
avenues it once adopts with loyalty not
paralleled. Just at this time the preserved
food market of Europe is not fixed in any
channels. Owing to decline in soil
production because of the indi-
rect and improbable ownership of
LAND in Europe, the consumers are in DO
sition to listen to propositions from new
sources of supply. The opportunity pre-
sents now, as never before, and as it may
not again for California, to prove by exhi-
bition her capacity to meet the worlds
demand in several distinct lines of pro-
duction, all of which relate directly to and
involve all the industries of the State and
concern our permanent prosperity. 1t
must be understood that in Europe our
system OF putting up food products is I'M
known. There the process is individual.
The producers themselves prepare the
goods London agents throughout Europe
advance to them upon prospective produc-
ton and direct the uniformity of method
to be observed. On delivery by the fam
lily Of the producer of the result of its
home labor, full payment is made and the
goods sent on for labelling and marketing.
1t is by this means, and not through the
agency of large canneries, which are I'M
natural means, that the food products reach
the London market. With us the cannery
secures the goods from the producer-be-
cause of his necessities and his inability to
deal directly with the market-at the
lowest possible rate and sells at the highest. !
With European demand, however, which
the London exhibition we are confident
will create, there will grow up a system
under which the producers will put up
either by cooperative, community or by
home works-ard sell direct TO the Lon
don and other Europen dealers. This in
itself will stimulate small farming, family
industry, higher state of production, and
secure for the producer the largest reward. |
The result must be state Of prosperity
and general cultivation in California, COM
pared to which our present measure of
production sinks into insignifcance.