The record-union., 1895-01-01
MARKETING OUR PRODUCTS.
The Dealer in Fruit the Arbiter of
the Price Paid.
California Must Secure Wider Dis
tribution of the Fruit it Sells TO the
East-Growers Must Cooperate.

The following very interesting and
valuable article, from the pen of VIM. III.
Mills, appears in the Christmas number
of the san francisco Chronicle:
The resources OF any country may be
said to include materials capable OF being
wrought into forms useful to man. The
broad general term OF resources has, for
convenience, been permitted to include
the fertility of the soil and the favoring
conditions of climate. The development
of the resources of any country resides
primarily in the intelligence. industry
and morality OF its people. The existence
of resources and the productive capacity
of the people upon whose industry their
developmen ent depends are the prime 1ac-
tors in the aggregation of wealth.
The division OF labor into separate de-
partments OF industrial activity was the
suggestion OF economy, and the assign
ment of various products to the soils and
climates faVoring their production is the
economic suggestion of nature. The eX-
change of products between countries
possesses an importance equal to the ex-
change OF the results of labor between in
dividuals; hence we have economic com-
mercial relations with other countries as
a third factor approximately equal in inn
portance to the prime factors already
noted.
The value of the surplus products of
any people is dependent upon the eco
nomic commercial relation with other
countries possessing natural resources
which supplement their own.
The commonwealth of California, as it
exists to-day, represents less than half a
century OF groWth-scarcely a yesterday
in the history of States and nations. In
considering the future OF this State we
are absolved from any presentation OF
natural resources. Their diversity and
magnitude stand admitted by the world.
Under state of civilization analogous to
that existing in Belgium and Lon bardy
California is capable of sustaining in COM
tort and even luxury population of TO-
UOO,OOO. On the basis OF the area of lands
occupied and cultivated in Japan Califor-
nla is capable of supporting %, 600, 600 of
people. BY the census OF 1890 California
contained / l,20S, 900. Estimates raise this
hgure to 500, 900.
1t does not. however, follow that Cali
fOrnia is entitled at the present time to
the entire number OF people her resources
are capable of maintaining. The progress
made in the construction Of railroad lines
on the Continent of North America
South America, Europe and Asia within
the past fifteen years has extended the
area OF profitable cultivation TO such
breadth as TO afford broad fields, inviting
occupation. In the decade between 1880
and 1890 there was constructed in the
United States 1900 miles OF railroad, or
approximately one-half the railroad
mileage now existing, opening to settle
ment nearly one-half of the national do
main. a like expansion of the States of
South America, of Europe and Asatic
Russia, and to a limited extent on the
Continent of Africa, has afforded COM
lnunication with regions heretofore
closed by their isolation and inaccessi-
bility.
In inviting reinforcement of our pop-
uiatlon, capital and enterprise. we are In
the presence OF strong competition at
home and abroad. However great her
resources may be, or however easy OF de-
yelopment, California Will not contain
population OF 10000, 900 until the civilized
populations of the earth are vastly aug
mented.
1t is an offense against the highest in
terests of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. too
common-to say that California has not
grown as it should have done. When it's
remoteness from the centers of Industrial
aud commercial activity are considered;
and when the obstacles which must be
overcome to reach it, including cost, dis
tance and wide separation from all family
and social relations are also considered,
lhe growth of California has been salts
factory. The population in 1850 was less
than 100000. Forty years later the CEN
Sus credits IL with population OF over
1000 an increase of 1000 per cent in
forty years. But if the comparison of
these dates be deemed unfair, it may be
noted that the population of California in
1860 was less than 100000, and thirty
years later it had arisen to figure in
excess of ,200,O 900, or an increase OF over
800 per cent in thirty years.
The increment OF values responds so
readily 20 the increase of population that
men are impatient OF tardy growth. How
ever rapidly a country may be accumu-
lating population and wealth its people
desire TO accelerate the movement. But
California is entitled to d more rapid ac-
cession of population and capital than is
observable in the present time, and the
coming OF that population, with other
elements of future greatness, will depend
upon future markets for its surplus pro-
ducts.
Facilities for communication have
brought all parts of the world into closer
relation. In this new and more intimate
relation competition between these parts