The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-09


Market street, by rail, 10,917 tons; Mar
ket street, by steamer, 1919; Lombard
street, Is, 351-a total of 80, 421 tons, an
average per working day of 242.o tons.
In addition it is estimated that water
craft bring an average of 800 to 1000
! tons of fruit and vegetables daily.
| The free market, when established,
| will be called on to furnish space to
handle LOCO tons of fruit per day. A
| fair estimate of the space required to
| handle 1000 tons of produce per day
would be $4,000 to $4,000 square feet
| clear, or, to put it in another way,
| space 500 feet long and 80 feet wide.
| In addition to this there would be
needed adequate truck facilities for
| handling the freight delivered at the
/ free market and loading out subse-
/ quently the cars made empty thereby
| 1t is obvious that the space provided
| for the purposes should, therefore, be in
| full recognition of the necessity for
handling a large water craft and rail
! tonnage incidental to the important
volume Of traffic the free market would
| presumably develop.
w. H. Mills contributed an able and
| instructive paper, the concluding por-
! him of which was as follows:
The most profitable use of the soil is
| that which employs the largest amount
/ of labor A pastoral condition depend
j ing on the natural forage of a country
is a concomitant of barbarism. Next
/ to this lowest scale is the cultivation or
large grain areas. by crude and de-
structive methods. The process which
| confers value by the application of hu-
man intelligence, human skill and hum
man industry is the concomitant OF
/ high state of civilization. 1t is analo-
| gous to the artistic skill which is ex-
pended upon material things. In
| speech delivered in the United States
Senate an honorable Senator from an
Eastern State demonstrated that a ton
| of iron ore worth less than Sc at the
| mine, when worked into watch find
ings, became worth S6,000,000 a ton.
Crude labor is always cheap and those
! who pursue it are doomed to poverty.
Skilled labor alone confers the oppor-
| tunity of DISCRIMINATING wealthin a single
lifetime. 1t is the acre of land capable
| of intensive culture, inviting skill and
intelligence, which is capable of the
highest results. 1t is for this reason
that the field of culture of California
is fraught with such high promise OF
future wealth to the people OF TINS
/ State. Consider an acre of vineyard,
from the pruning TO the attractive
| package of wine ready for the table;
trace all the process through cuitiVa-
ton, through vintage, through WINE
press, through the skill and attention
! of thoughtful and scientific fermenta-
ton to the chemically sound and pure
| wine. and you have a case analogous
to the painting of a fine picture. A
few cents worth of pigments, teWef
cents worth of canvas, constitute the
physical basis for a work of art when
will sell for 100000.
The intensive culture which the fer
tile areas of California are capable OF
will come into being, not so much by
! encouraging their production as by en-
couragement to their profitable distrl-
button and sale in the markets OF the
world. California must address itself
| to the merchandising side of the ac-
/ count, because when production is
made profitable all other things will
| be added.
The free market you have under con-
! sideration this evening is the begin
| ming. There is no friend of this market
who believes that its beneficial results
| will be seen at the outset It's slaalS
will remain empty for some time us
onnortunities will not be understood.
The instrumentation of the subject al
| ready manifested warns us OF TINS re-
suit. Yet these facts are the most CO.
gent argument which could possibly De
offered in favor of the vigorous prose-
| cution of the enterprise. II is the eX-
istence of the opportunity which is the
evolutionary force calling results INTO
being.
At the Worlds Fair in Chicago a
chor11s of 800 voices delighted and as
tonished the world. They rendered the
great classics of music in a manner to
excite the commentator and the ad-
! miration of the music-loving world. In
technique of execution, in interpreted
ton. in expression, they were received
and recognized as having achieved the
| perfection of choral vocalization. Tney
| were not from the great worlds me-
tropolis, London; nor from Paris, the
shrine of art: nor from New York, the
metropolis of America; nor Chicago,
the giant metropolis of the West. They
st were from st. Lake City, mountain
village remote from the great center OF
artistic influence. In the early days Of
the occupation of Salt Lake Valley and
the founding of the City of the Saints,
a great man had direction of affairs.
He conceived the idea of vast temple,
the acoustic properties of which had
not been excelled by any structure III
the world. The existence of the Tab
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suggestion offering an invitation to the
formation of great choral society, and
the chorus which conferred honor upon
the West and illustrated the musical
achievement of the age came into being
in response to that invitation. In the
presence Of a perpetual opportunity re-
suit may be delayed, but cannot be
defeated.
The free market in San Francisco
will possess the evolutionary force of a
constant opportunity, and the better
merchandising condition to attend the
industry of the State will have its be-
ginning in the accomplishment of what
we so ardently desire.
Finally, the greatest obstacle to the
progress of California has been and is
to-day the lack of capacity on the part
of it's people to act together. 1t is for
this reason that its channels of COM
merce are bound in the chains of mo-
nopoly. The orchards of California are
furnishing annually in the green fruit
form to be consumed on the tables of
the people of the East from three to
five million dollars worth Of products,
and yet there are but two firms en-
gagged in handling this vast source OF