The record-union., 1892-11-28
Manufactures Wanted.

EDS. RECORD UNION: I am glad the
press of this city is giving the widest
publicity to the fact that Sacramento has
nearly completed one of the best Ievee
systems in this country-one that viii
Withstand the elements for all time to
come. Had we this protection ten years
ago we would now have a population of
al least Is, 900 Instead of 5000.
But we should not waste time by dwell
ing upon errors of the past. The future
is what we wish to deal with, and the
subject paramount TO all others, and
which we should now turn our attention
to. is to devise some means by which to
induce manufacturing industries to locate
here.
This is what builds up a city, and with
our wealth and located as we are upon
the main waterway Of this State, which
traVerses the Sacramento Valley from
one end to the other, it would seem to
any reasonable mind that it is the lack Of
push on our part that these waters should
run 10 waste. instead of being utilized for
the above purposes.
Let US look for a moment at other cities
around rs with not nenr the Inducements
that we have to offer, and see what they
are doing in this respect. We viii take
Stockton for instance with about half our
population. Look at her immense har-
vesting works, her large Touring mills
and her carshOps, which are giving en-
plOyment to many OF her citizens; and
still she is reaching out for more, while
we are lying back waiting for something
to turn up. But that something Will be a
long time coming, unless our moneyeI
men Will unlOose their well-tilIed purses
and assist in developing the city in which
they have made their all.
In the past two years a few Of our more
enterprlsing cltlZens, assisted by Outsid-
ers VINO, like themselves, had hopes in
the great possibilities in store for US, have
shown these back numbers what pluck
and push can do. | refer to our electric
street railroads, which now dotthis city
and which are not excelied by any other
enterprise Of the kind on this continent.
But thlS Is Il mere bagatelle in cOmpari-
son 10 what can be accomplished in other
directions in the way OF new enterprises,
such as shoe factories, nail works, wagon
and carriage shops, and many other in
dustrles that would give employment to
the young men and women now growing
up in our midst. There is hardly aques-
ton but that they would pay from the
start. They are carried on in other
places, and why not here?
Now that the cloud which had obscured
us for many years is clearing away and
the dawn OF a new future has fairly set in.
was there ever a better time tnan the
present Tor the enterprising citizens who
compose our Improvement Association
to turn their attention to this alI-im-
portant matter? IN the past two years
and mainly through their efforts, thirty
miles Of our streets have been graded
and graveled: miles of cement walks
have been laid; the obsolete awning OF
prehistoric ages (Which made us the
iaughing-stock Of our. sister cities is
being superseded by those in keeping
with the times; and-which should ever be
to their credit-the magnificent levees
which are now nearly completed and
which viii do more to build up this beau-
tiful city than anything that has ever
been attempted. To an organization Of
such public-spirited citizens nothing is
impossible, and were they to take hold Of
this subject of bringing manufacturing
here, with the spirit they have shown in
the past, success would surely crown
their efforts. Then would this city be
known, not as the silurian OF the past,
but the manufacturing and commercial
center Of this great State.
J. G. MARITIME.