The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-30
COMMERCE IS CALIFORNIA;
HOPE.
What Must be Done TO Place Our State In
the Condition Of Prosperity IL
nnaarNes.

Deserves
Productions of California, which
must seek foreign market, do SO
naturally by the cheapest route, water.
IL is a matter Of grave Importance TO
the people of the entire State that as
large an amount Of goods be shipped
away As possible, because by this
method; the selling of our productions,
and this alone, can we expect to at
tract money to our Golfers. If it is
demonstrated that it pays to cultivate
the soil in California, then our lands
will be sought after; we will have
more farmers, more shipping and con-
sequently more business for everybody.
This means that agriculture, horticul-
ture and all other farming pursuits
must be encouraged if we wish TO pros
per as a people.
How shall this be done? First, we
must secure for our goods the cheapest
possible water transportation in order
that the net returns may be sufficient
TO give to the legitimate farmer fair
remuneration for his labor and invest
ment.
This done and we have opened the
markets of the world to our people,
especially to those who are enabled TO
reach the seaboard at moderate cost.
The cheapest water transportation will
be provided by the people of California
themselves if they will give every pos
sible encouragement to owners of ships
to induce them to make and afford to
provide low rates of reight to foreign
ports. Unusual, unnecessary and ex-
cessive burdens exacted by authority
of State laws must be removed from
our shipping as first move. This
can be accomplished through the State
Legislature at the proper time if the
voters will give it their moral support
when asked.
Let us see how the matter stands
with the shipowner. We assert that
che farmer must have fair return for
his labor and investment. and as human
nature is pretty much the same in all
lines of business, it may be presumed
that the owner of ships is naturally
| looking for similar returns. The
farm will not be cultivated if the
farmer must starve or lose money,
neither will the ship sail the seas if
her owner cannot earn something. A
ship represents the investment of capt.
tai, and her only excuse for being afloat
is the prospect of making money. You
cannot get something for nothing in
this wide world and ship is no ex-
ception to the universal rule. A ship
is subject to constant depreciation by
wear and tear an also to the ever pres
ent dangers of navigation on the high
seas. Certain fixed charges, such as
repairs, salaries of masters, mates,
stewards, carpenters and sailors; in
surance, State and county taxes, wharf
age, dockage, pilotage, etc., must be
provided for, besides the earning OF
interest for the owner sufficient to in
duce him to put his money into such a
precarious investment And is it not
self-evident without argument, that
the producer who supplies the cargo,
and no one else, pays all of these
charges from the sale of his produc-
itons? Of course it is, because the
carrying of goods is the only means
the ship has of earning money, and,
therefore, no other class of citizens is
so directly affected by and interested
in cheap transportation as the producer
of wares that must seek a foreign mar
ket, and therefore in the reduction OF
any if these charges that are excessive
or uncalled for. But the entire State
is interested in the encouragement and
building of our Commerce. because OF
the influence of commerce upon the
general prosperity of people and to
that end, the producer and the ship.
owner must be aided and invited in
every reasonable way to work together
for the welfare of all. They bring
money to our shores in exchange fol
our products and make it profitable fol
others to do business in our State, an6
when everybody is profitably EN-
ployed happiness results. Agriculture
and Commerce must work hand il
hand, otherwise CALIFORNIA; grail
Fleets of well-laden ships coming anC
going freely from January to Decem
Der, carrying to the outside world thu
products of our soil and labor will
supply the silver trimmings for GU,
Golden Gate, which is now in DANCE
of becoming covered with fossils ant
rust and falling from its hinges int,
the sands of the ocean, while we enfolt
ourselves in the narrow selfishness o
indifference and satisfaction, ant
wonder why business is dull. Sto
the stand and deliver" policy b,
which we strangle the "Goose tina
lays the golden egg" and the fleet
will start and their cargoes will in
crease apace. No people ON earth ar
favored with natural blessings and ad
vantages equal to these that surroun
} us on every side; they abound on to
of the ground, in the bowels of tn
earth and on the blue waters With
and beyond our borders; and added {
, all a variety of climates unknown else
where on the face of the globe, suite
dllhS w lll0 ulOSO Nl01lCdtS anu tLlo uAOs
} sturdy of men. The orange blossom.
: the ripe fruits and the full blown flow
r ers nestle and flourish in the laps {
l the valleys beside the snow-cappe
? mountains, which furnish an everlas
$ ing irrigation system; holding mi
: lions of golden eagles that await br
9 the seeking. And yet with all thes
: things before our eyes, we see thel
: not, or, if seeing, heed them mot. Al
e we dead or only seeping? If onl
/ sleeping let us awaken before we al
g buried alive; rub our eyes wide opel
Q shake ourselves into activity, go
t work with will and all co-opera