The record-union., 1895-09-10

sures rapidity of movement in the hand
ling of goods. Our merchants not only
receive those goods which come across
the continent earlier than the coast mar
for the trade on the same day on which
received. and save to the purchasers from
two to three days of time in transporta-
ton, and material item of expense in
the way of freight.
Fifth-The Sacramento merchant &C.
cords to his customers rate level with
that Of his strongest competitors, and in a
great many instances lower rate. The
local situation gives to the wholesale
dealer of Sacramento sill the advantages
which his business rivals of the metropo-
lis claim by reason of the large amount
of capital there invested, and the great
volume Of business there transacted.
Sixth-The commercial base of supplies
for any region is always the nearest aud
cheapest point, and as it has already been
shown that Sacramento, to vast and i'm
portant region, is the nearest point, and
that goods can be sold at a desirable rate.
it follows that the claim made for the city
is sound one That market is also best
advantaged which not only sells but
buys; which takes the product of the
buyer as we'll as furnishes him his sup
plies. and Sacramento extends this adj
vantage to the trade.
Seventh-An artificial market cannot
have any permanence of growth; physi-
col foa re- al Iafar tko of
commercial Importance; commerce has
no higher interest than its own; it builds
up great trade centers and points out
their locations, and no community. how
ever dense its population, can for any
great length of time dictate to commerce
the channels in which it shall move.
Whatever Importance, then. Sacra-
mento has as trade center to-day is the
result of natural advantages, based upon
physical facts, and affords undeniable
evidence that the city is one in the inter-
est Of trade and responding to its
demands; that it is the natural base of
supplies for vast region OF country
which must always look to this point as
its depot, and a market for the sale of
products.
Eighth-Sacramento merchants are di-
rect importers. They are free from the
charges for wharfage which prevail else
where, and are visited upon the pur-
cnasers. There is here no charge for
drayage, which saving also accrues to the
purchaser. For all northern. central and
eastern sections goods are shipped from
Sacramento at saving to the buyer,
measured by the cost of freight carriage
between San Francisco and Sacramento.
Ninth-Her warm, dry climate adapts
her admirably to manufactures. Espe-
cially is this true Of all classes of wood
material. This enables her manufact-
ures to put up work in furniture, car
riages, wagons, boxes, etc., which endure
any climate, and outlast those made in a
humid atmosphere. AS lumber depot,
the city enjoys the advantage of being
located near the great sugar-pine regions,
and has cheap and ample storage grounds,
while the dryness Of her atmosphere
gives all lumber stored here perfectly
seasoned condition not possible to be at
tanned in the immediate coast region.
Storage Of liquors here improves them,
because of the dry, warm atmosphere,
and hence il is that Sacramento is a
cheap storage and shipping point for such
goods.
Tenth-A consideration Of the highest
Importance. as influencing the location OF
the seat of densest population on this
coast, is that OF sufficient rainfall to pro-
duce agricultural crops. Northern and
Central California, of which region, as we
have shown, Sacramento is the trade CEN
ter, possess the two leading elements
necessary to the inducement and support
Of large population, namely: breadth
of area of cultivable lands and sufficient
annual rainfall to produce crop. What
ever may be the value of irrigation, when
developed. to other sections of this State,
it is certain that the sections requiring
neither irrigation nor reclamation will
first be occupied and cultivated. For
many years to come the great body of the
population of California will occupy the
territorial area of which Sacramento is
the strads center. The section alluded
to embraces 10000 square miles-an
area over three times that embraced
within the State of Massachusetts,, and
equal to one-half OF the State of Ohio. 1t
is capable of supporting a population
more dense than that of Ohio or Illinois.
Upon an equal area to that under consid-
Grafton in the agricultural States of the
West will be found population of from
one and half to TWO millions of people.