The morning call., 1891-09-26
FOREIGN TRADE OF THE PORT.

The gradual growth of the foreign trade
Of the port is not attracting as much general
attention as perhaps it deserves. In the be-
ginning, California shipments were chiefly
god; of late years they have been mainly
wheat; now We are shipping assorted car
goes, which comprise products of the field,
tie forest, the mine, the sea and the range.
This is the kind of trade which builds up
States and seaports. 4 single resource is
never reliable.
\ ship sailed on Thursday for Liverpool
with a cargo valued at nearly half million
of dollars. The most valuable article on her
manifest was canned fruit, of which she
. tuok out Al ,399 cases, valued at sos, $40.
Next to this came canned fish, of which she
slowed away cases inYoiced at $685. 26.
Thirty thousand dollars worth of wheat and
barley followed, and 800 barrels Of taIoW
worth S14,5lS. Eucalyptus boiler iiuid, an
article of which this State has a monopoly
in North America, figured on the manifest
for SI1,13O, and next came $500 worth Of
lump boratP, and 167 barrels of wine. A
number Of sundrieS-mOther of pearl shells,
honey, 0rchilla and bark-filied up the cargo
Several leading products Of the State were
not included in the shipment. 1t contained
no gold, nor silver, nor quicksilver, Tor
wool, nor hops, nor dried fruit, nor nuts.
But even without these, what remarkably
diversified assortment of merchantable
goods this Norwegian ship Bredablik is
carrying round the Horn!
Another striking proof of the develop
ment of the products of the Coast is the
export Of lumber. That article occupies the
first place in our shipments to Chile, and
every year the consumption of Puget Sound
lumber is increasing in Australia. There is
single corporation in New South Wales
which owns mines, and is large consumer
Of American lumber, owing to the scarcity
Of suitable timber in Australia; it has
lately ordered 20000,000 feet of lumber from
this city. The ships will be loaded at the
Sound ports, whence they VIII sail for Sgd
Hey; it will take about thirty of them to fill
this single order. There is not another
country watered by the Pacific which can
supply the lumber required for house-build-
ing in Pacific communities which are grow
ing; they will all have to come here for
boards and deals and two-by-fours.
These facts are coDsOla tory TO those who
embark in enterprises which prove at first
unsuccessful. There is no end TO the re-
sources Of the West or 10 the opportunities
which it offers to men of enterprise and in
duSlry. When one endeayOr fails 1t Is
always possible to find another which may
be tried. Other States have one, or at most
two resources. Here the unsuccessful miner
may betake himself to ranching; the wheat
grower whose crop is scorched by a norther
may plant his land in fruit; the fruit-grower
who cannot get his crop picked for want of
labor may betake himself TO drying and
canning the fruit of more lucky neghbors:
the Gamer who fails may set up a saw-mill
and cut sugar pine in Siskiyou and Modoc
and Shasta; the unsuccessful man Of bust
ness may dry raisins in Fresno; there is not
county in the State in which some profit
able pursuit is not calling for the intelligent
labor of man. And the geographical shape
OF the State is such that every producer can
reach a market.
A variety of unfortunate circumstances
have combined to delay the growth of our