Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-09-08
GROWING STATES.
Tho Commeroini and Industrial Progress
of California and Colorado.

Tho Commercial and Industrial Progress
of California and Colorado.
The lamentations of the Colorado,
Montana, and Idaho men over the
breakdown of mining, in consequence
of the decline in the price of silver,
have familiar sound to those who re-
call the lamen tions of the California
miners, when the profits of gold min
ing began suddenly to decline Ac-
cording to some excited Colorado min
ers, nothing can save that state from
penury, desolaton and total bankrupt
cy, except the wholesale resumption,
on profitable basis, of silver mining.
That's what, in substance, the gold
miners of California said, when the
precious metal had TO be dug for hun.
dreds of feet below the surface, instead
of being found in the washings OF hills
and streams.
But what happened? The people o!
California, deprived of one source ot
profitable revenue, sought others. To
day California ranks first among the
forty-four states in the production of
barley and in grape culture, second in
sheep and wool, third in hops, fifth in
wheat and salt, seventh in silk goods,
and eighth in soap. The wine industry
| is an en- ormous one, there being, it is
comp uted, 100000 900 vines in the state
yielding annually S0,0OO,O00 pounds Of
grapes, and $4,000, 600 gallons of wine.
| There are also 100000 fruit trees,
producing oranges, apricots, olives,
lemons, and figs to the amount an
nually of 81 ,000,0 900. The lumber in
tcrests of Califor mia are important, the
cut last year having been 300, 200, 000
feet of pine and $50, 100000 feet of Cali
fornia redwood. The value of gold
mined in year in California is Sl2, OO0,-
900, of silver $1,000 900, and of quick
silver, 50, 600, 900. The manufactures Of
California are $3.50, 000, 900, and the value
Of farm lands $500, 100000. The gold
product, therefore, is no longer an
item of Importance. The wheat crop
Is 35,00O,OOO bushels; arley, $4,000, 600;
corn, $685. 900, and hops, 6,5OO,OOC
pounds. California is as well known
for the variety of her products as for
their excellence and abundance.
Colorado is younger state than Cal.
ifornia, but there is nothing about Its
development to indicate that it will moi
advance rapidly in other lines, even Il
The silver mining ind ustry continues tc
be depresse d. The coal product of Col
| - ;pae f,on, A nOn 10
in 1870 to nearly 100000 tons in
1892; the coke product from %, 900 tC
$50, 900, 600 tons during the same period
Stone was quarried to the value of $50,
300 in 1880, and to the value of 81, 600
300 ten years later. Colorado has large
cattle interests and raises from two tc
three million bus heels each of corn
wheat, and oats, the figures for 1S9:
having been $50 $1,000, $500, 900, arit
100000 respectively. The develop
nent of the western and northwestern
states in agricultural products, rapit
Us it has been, has been no quicker o.
more surprising than the growth o
Colorado, and this fact seems to belle
many of the morose predictions of those
who allege that the centennial state Il
about to suffer from a general economic
collapse. The silver output, it is true
las averaged SIS, 500, 900 year, and tn,
yold output about S4,OO0,O00, but thes,
IRE not the only sources of her minera
wealth.
When one DOR shuts another opens
declares the proverb, nd if this prove
% be the case with Col orado as will
california, the exchange of agriculture
'ertility for mining wealth will be {
air one. According to the last census
California had Chinese population o
1000, whereas the total number 0
Chinese residents in Colorado was 300
The Mongolian pr oblem, which prove'
or so many year a besetting and dis
,, ressing one in the Golden state, will
1ot have to be dispo sed of in Colorado
20 the great inj ury of trade, wages, an,
social economy, as it WAS further west
Colorado, too, has an aim ost excl usivel,
, 1ative-born populat ion of white Amer
! cans.-N. Y. Sun.