The San Francisco call., 1895-10-18
TO DEVELOP THE STATE,
REAL ESTATE CONVENTION AND
SERIES OF CARNIVALS IN
PROSPECT.
DAVID R1cH'S SUGGESTIONS ON THE
BEST WAY TO INDUCE I'M
MIGRATION.

The State Development Committee is
looking forward to two things which it
hopes will help to induce immigration.
One is a convention of real-estate men and
the other series Of carnivals.
The executive committee met yesterday
and decided TO call meeting as early as
possible of the entire State Development
Committee to consider these ideas. In the
circular letter sent out to the members,
Tuesday, November 5, was the date named
Tor the meetings
David Rich read paper while the exec
tive committee was in session on the best
way of inducing immigration to this State
IN the course of which he said:
To no State in the Union is the question of
immigration more interesting or more vital
than TO ours. The want of population alone
stands between US and great destiny. Wealth
accumulates in California at the rate of about
htty millions year. but the advantages which
are expected 10 now from this accumulation
are not proportlonately felt We are in fact
better off than we think we are. Unconsciously
we feel wealth only in the proportion that we
can use it. To accumulate it simply is TO
waste 1t. Unless we can people the State with
II and find employment and visible occupation
Tor them it is like making riot with it: there is
no inward satisfaction IRON it.
In connection with this observation he
gave some interesting figures and conclu-
sions inAthe following:
California is the second largest State in area
in the United States, being 157 900 square
miles In extent or in acres about 101 900 600
About 90 per cent of this area is arabic and
about 10,0O0,0 600 acres are taken up She is
the third or fourth in fank in the production
OF wheat, the annual WELD being about 25-
OOO,OO to 80 1000, 900 bushels, of which about
one-half is consumed within her border In
spite OF the enormous yield of citrus and de-
"a +nylt rf h.ar,
wheat is still believed to be the largest staple
crop.
California has the largest percentage of
wealth per capita OF any State in the Union,
and IS the most diversified in her agricultural
yleid; The orange, the olive the fig, the prune
and the grape thrive ol her soil. She leads in
the production OF the vine, is the greatest pro-
Queer of honey and the only State in the
Union in which raisins are produced.
CaliioTnia's export of vegetables in 1894 was
SO ,o00, 900 pounds; raisins, crop for 1894 81
260, 600 pounds; dried fruits produced i'll 1894,
125, 900, 900 pounds; production of brandy dis,
titled from grapes, ], 10000 gallons.
California has produced in gold since lS4e
81 232, 900, 900, and now yields about $l2,-
o0O, 1000 to $15 100000 per annum in gold
alone Certainly, then, # we can furnish fig
ures ike these, we need have no scruples in
encouraging emigrants to live with us either
from the settled East or from Europe.
He advised efforts to induce the agricul-
tural class of emigrants to settle here.
and added:
The information conveyed to them in respect
to the soil and climate in the different parts OF
the State should be detailed and scientifically
accurate. The expected emigrants to any par-
tlcular region should be informed as to its
nearness TO cities and towns and its aptitude
and fitness for different classes OF crops and
thus be put IN position to make an intelli-
gent choice of locality.
Lands should be secured for them adapted 10
their wants and sold to them on fair terms and
upon conditions sufficiently liberal to give
them good start upon their entry into a new
life. The colonization companies of the State
might well be asked to cooperate with our eff
forts as they best understand the wants of the
several people which they in manner repre-
sent.
Mr.. Rich's suggestions are to be SUBJ
mltted to the real estate mems convention
when it materializes
Arrangements have been made by which
the California stereopticon lectures at At
lanta are to be sandwiched in between the
hrst and second parts of the musical pro-
grammes of Gilmore's band. They are to
be given in the main Auditorium building.