The record-union., 1894-10-16

more closely together, open up its waste
places, bring new States into existence.
enhance values of Government lands, and
furnish it the economic means for trans
portation of troops, mails and munitions
OF need from the Atlantic to the Pacific
seaboard.
a PROPOSED LOCAL INDUSTRY.
The proposed rock-crushing scheme
! moves slowly, but it moves, and that is
| something. Several level-headed busi-
ness men have given it examination, and
as result have interested themselves in
It, A meeting has now been called of
prominent business men for tomorrow
afternoon after bank hours to consult and
debate the matter, the understanding be-
ing that attendance commits no one, but
that the sole purpose is to have the plan
understood and to have business judg-
ment pass upon it. This is right proceed
ure ana conservative.
1t is nothing new at the East. Here it
is new. But there are few points at the
East so happily situated in relation to a
supply Of good road metal as is Sacra-
mento. 1t is at our doors in unlimited
! quantity. To set up large crusher and
prepare this materlal-under company
OF good business mentor use and ship
ment, means to lower the price per cubic
yard nearly one-half. and vet leave to
the company fair profit for the invest
ment.
| Outside Of this purely business consid-
Grafton the furnishing of road metal of
the best quality means stimulation of
good road, street and alley building, and
therefore the disbursement Of money,
| qaickened circulation and improvement
In business, while the highest benefit
will flow to the rural sections also by
promotion Of permanent road construc-
ton. Such was the result of a similar
awakening in Canandaigua County, n.
Y, in Gloucester County, n. j., and
many other points. Such interest do the
State Prison authorities feel in the mat
ter that they nave offered exceptionally
good terms, to the company first engag-
ing IN the industry, for the use of trans
mitted electrical power, and good terms
have also been offered by owners OF the
crude rock.
There are many miles of streets and
alleys to be macadamized in this city.
The Trustees have wisely resolved that
no more of the wasteful use of gravel
| shall be INDUCED in. Macadam or btu
menized roadways are hereafter to be or
dered only. We have wasted money
enough in this city in the twenty years
last past on few gravel and dirt streets
| to have macadamized every street and
alley in the town and have had hand
some surplus of money over. Now that
it has been found that in dozen places
the best trap rock can be had near to the
city; that treated on large scale it can
be prepared at a greatly less price than
heretofore, and that to do so is a good
business venture, it is the hight of un-
wisdom TO wait single week before put
ting the machinery into operation.
Such material properly prepared never
decays; it suffers no depreciation and it
is stock of certain sale. 1t is used in
other construction than streets and roads
also, and it really lies at the foundation
of much business prosperity, since, as we
have frequently remarked, every dollar
saved in transportation is a dollar added
to net production, and since improved
highways are the indices to business
prosperity in the average community
and reveal to the home-seeker, in a large
sense, the civilizing conditions which
prevail in district
Assuredly the business men will con-
serve their own interests by looking into
the matter and giving it careful scrutiny.
There is great good in it we are con-
vinced, and this journal is not given to
approving that which is not meritorious
We believe this road metal proposition
to be worthy. At least, it is worth look
ing into, and the judgment of our bust
ness men is not likely to 60 wrong where
there is careful and conservative coan-
selling together.