The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-01

extent taxes the placeSoI the eeleufdted
blue grass of Kentucky. A noted East
ern breeder, who investigated this sec
ton thoroughly expressed the opinion
that horses wonld put on ~ per cent.
more weight in given period OF their
growth, and on a given quantity OF
feed, here than they would in the East.
A horse at 3 years of age is put to
work that would scarcely be expected
of four-year-old in the East. Cali
fornia breeders have gone East, bought
a stallion for $4,000, shipped him to
California and within ten years sold
colts from him to the value of $700,0O0.
As stated, this industry is at present
in comparatively undeveloped condl-
ton. The promise of growth in the
raising of fine horses which was de-
veloped ten or twelve years ago has
not been maintained. This may partly
be due to the fact that there has been
such depression in the horse mar
ket throughout the country, but 1t IS
now evident that in spite of the BIZ
cycle and the horseless carriage there
will continue to be a good demand for
really fine stock In farming and other
lines of business there will always be
ter able to supply this demand than
any other State in the Union.
THE DEMAND FOR LABOR.
Oakland Tribune: Once again the
cry is going up throughout the State
for more workingmen, the efforts of the
Southern Pacific Company to close up
the sap on the coast line being delayed
because laborers cannot be obtained.
A similar complaint comes from the
Santa Fe camp at Point Richmond,
where every effort is being made to
rush the new competing road to it's
destination, and a glance at the adver-
tisements in the daily papers of the
employment agencies show that il is
impossible to obtain enough help for
the logging camps, the orchards and
the grain fields.
1t will not do, though, to let an err
roneous impression SO abroad as to the
exact status of affairs. and then have
to contend with an invasion of work.
ingmen from other parts of the coun-
try. There is plenty OF labor in the
State to cope with the dema nds. the
trouble is that it does not happen to be
properly distributed at The present
time. Many men are idle III the big
cities, as the records of the Salvation
Army and other charitable organiZa
lions show, and if they would only go
forth on to the high roads, the cry for
help would soon be stille1. The trouble
is that there are too many who would
sooner ''be broke in town than at work
in the country and it is this element
that has got the labor market in ita
present disorganiZed condition.
Perhaps as good way as any to
remedy it is for the various benevolent
organizations to refuse to endeaVor to
find work in town for applicants, but
to send them all out into the country.
Private charity, too. should not encour-
age those who are loaing about the
cities, and if this policy were thor
oughly pursued, the various centers of
population would soon disgorge the
drones from their midst. It would be
the hight of folly, though TO import
labor from other, States. as some are
suggesting, for we have more working
men on hand than the demands
require and toIbring IN additional idle
men would simply glut the labor mar
ket to no purpose.