The record-union., 1894-05-28


state. our homes are as fine as any
city IN the land for its size. Ii you pro-
ceed inteiligently you will have your
water system perfected and l also believe
the drainage problem will be intelil-
gently solved. Both these last are OF the
utmost importance. and the whole State
are holding them as dreadful to the eyes
OF the stranger that comes to Callfornla.
While | do not believe they are so very
bad, still, where there is so much smoke
there must be fire, and from the articles
in your public papers from time to time
there must be ground for uneasineSs.
The era of railroad building will start
soOn-much sooner than after the panic
in '73 and '63. There is more idle money
now than at any time in the history OF
the world, and if you will look at the
quotations on first mortgage railroad
bonds, you will find them nearly as
high as they ever were, even those OF
railroads that are in the hands of receiy-
ers. This means that the owners OF these
great tranScontinentaI systems Will soon
resume railroad building. and the next
move will be to deep water on San Fran
cisco Bay.
New countries are for a long time de-
pendent upon old ones for manufactured
wares; the manufactures of country do
not cut figure in the early stage OF its
, development, but the time has come in
the history of California when she can
commence to manufacture; she has peo-
pie now, or enough to start with, and her
growth will be great. Hereafter Sacra-
mento should build on her manufactures
as well as on her commerce and agri-
culture; they all grow well together.
Manufacturers all over England and
this country are willing to pay good
round prices for electrical power, and
consider it cheaper than power obtained
from coal. Birmingham, England, is a
great manufacturing city, and coal is
comparatively cheap there. The city has
| numerous great power plants generating
| electricity and selling it to the smaller
manufacturers at good profit, and the
manufacturers are saving money by the
change.
! At Folsom before the water power is
used at the power-house they utilize 1t
| for conveying logs down the American
River to be converted into lumber. After
that the water is used for power. That
same water is to be conveyed by canals
| and sold TO irrigate lands. BY this you
will readily understand that it is possible
| for The cost of this electrical power to be
produced very cheap.
| am satisfied, from remarks made by
! Mr.. Gallatin and concurred in by Mr..
! L.iVermore, that when their power plant
is completed here they will treat the fac
tories already here equally as well as they
expect to treat with you for new con-
! Germs.
! / think / am very conservative when
say this enterprise, when completed, will
| improve and bring in millions of dollars
within the next few years within radius
of country that should double the popu-
lation of this city.
! Some people of this city have said to
me that this would be a monopoly. To
such people | have said, on general
principles, it will not be anything Of the
kind, for by assisting in building UP Sac
| ramento this company are building UP
their own property in your midst II
| that were not a fact it is fact that the
Yuba Water Company have large terri
tory for collecting water, and have now
considerable water at Auburn, and are
already looking to the time when
| that power will be at the disposal of this
city.
II the promoters of this enterprise al
! Folsom should have proposed to this city
/ that they would give them power for the
price that they have agreed to, and saio
| that we want as a consideration S300,00O as
a bonus, and we will spend $l,5000O0 III
! completing plant. which it will cost be-
fore this undertaking is finished, it would
have been a cheap investment for this
place.
In Sacramento you can manufacture
| leather to good advantage, especially
since you are going to have electrical
| power and electricity for tanning. There
are twenty-six successful tanneries in
| this State.
Boots and shoes can be manufactured
! here. Less than 10 per cent. of the goods
| in that line used in California are made
| on this coast.
All kinds of leather goods, including
| harness, can be manufactured mere on a
| large scale.
Stockton has a tannery that turned out
! last year about 100000 worth of finished
leather, most of which went East to be
manufactured, part of which was returned
| West.
This would be good point for rubber
factory. No rubber goods are made ives
| of the Allegheny Mountains, and vessel:
carry to San Francisco freight as CHEAP
from the country where rubber is pro-
duced as they do to New York. Beside
there is great deal of scrap rubber tha
is gathered on this coast and shipped tc
the East, there manufactured and re-
turned to you again.
All kinds of woolen goods can be man
utactured here. Stockton last year man.
ufactured $350,000 of these goods; Marys
vile, north OF you, manufactured fine
| line, and are ccessful, | am informed.
You will have ch eaper power here, anC
! the raw material is as cheap here as it is
in either Of those places. Labor can live
! here cheaper than it can in New England
and should be as cheap. Beside, New
England has no coal aud very little wooC
to speak OF.
Agricultural implements can be manu-.
factured here successfully. Stockton
manufactured S1,500,000 worth last year
having six concerns interested. Only z
per cent. of the agricultural implements
used in California are manufactured here
Carriages and wagons can be manu-
factured here with profit. San Francisco
last year sold 10000 wagons of variou:
kinds, and there is not regular wagon
manufacturing establishment on the
coast, although you can get wagons bull
on special orders. One built at this poin
is worth two built in the East. Your
power will be cheap, labor as cheap as II
| the East, and the raw material entering
| into carriages cuts small figure when
| YOU take into consideration that the ma
terial can be shipped here in an unfur-
nished state so much cheaper than the
manufactured goods can be shipped here
and the profit from the business is de-
rived from furnishing or manufacturing
an ordinary piano box buggy has less
| than eighteen feet of timber in it.
In time San Francisco will be great
hardwood market; hardwood in the East
is growing scarce; the principal hard
woods are now coming from the south
For this coast hardwoods will be shipped
from Japan, China and Russia.
Less than per cent. of the carriages
and wagons of all kinds used on this
coast are made here. Beside making
these goods for the coast trade there is q
large trade on tie Pacific in these goods
for the coast trade, and there is large
trade in the Pacific Islands for American
vehicles. One firm at Columbus, o.,
working several hundreds hands. max es
| carriages, especially for Australia, and
the entire product OF the factory is not
| bourne.
| Furniture could be made here. Your
native woods are all well adapted 70