Year: 1865

climate the ayishly fertile soil, the unfathomed


mineral wealth of hills and mountain ranges,
cause at times the selfish thought: I" Why can
not we appropriate and enjoy all these blessings
among ourselves % There is one brief but sat
! isfactorv answer: They are too vast they were


designed bv the Creator for the benefit of mill


ions not merely for that of thousands. On after


reflection comes the wiser and wider and better


thought Why should so large portion of these


benifcent gifts be allowed to lay waste =? Why


not seek to fulfill the designs of the bounteous


Giver. and invite and bring hither those of other


lands to participate With us in the enjoyment of


the blessings which characterize this favored


land? The population of the State is sparse


1t is not increasing. The record of passengers


arriving and departing by sea at San Francisco


show decrease in numbers by that route of three


thousand during the past year. While her force


is stationary or decreasing, the State cannot pro-
gress. Up to the present time there has not been
| in California MORE THAN RESPECTABLE PROS


PEcTING PARTY-a sort of corps of observation.


We must have million of people a true idea


can be initiated of our true wealth State
What have we done to induce immigration =


Nothing. We have not taken pains to let the


world know the advantages of the country, and


We have not sought by all the means in our pow


er to provide cheap means of transport hlther.


The principal avenue of ingress and egress offers


a premium on depopulation. The rates of pass


age hence on the steamer Colorado, which sails


on Monday [30th, are S2lO, Sl62 so, S95 and
$50. The prices on the California bound steam


er which leaves New York on the first of Novom-


ber are $3.50, $3.50 and Sl25. The result of this


discrimination is given above-a marked decrease
/ of population But even high rates of travel will


not deter people from coming, if it is proven to


them that it is to their interest to come. The


proof is in our hands if we would use it. We


must use it if we would have the needed wealth


of bone and sincw pour in upon us-the only


wealth we need to make the State the richest in


material blessings of any in the Union, if not in


the world. Tennessee is populous State COM


pared to California yet her Governor urges in


his message to the Legislature that - emigration


should be fostered and encouraged, and a COM


missioner stationed at the East to secure nu-


merous foreign emigration Of skilled labor -
! Kentucky has an agent lecturing through New
! England on the advantages of his State and ad-
! vising emigration thither. For the sake of Ken
/ lucky we trust he will be successful in trans
planting thither liberal sprinklng of the gen


US Yankee. But of all the States Missouri seems


the most active in the effort to . a hardy
yeomanry, their country's pride" The question


of emigration is not there left to take of it
/ self. There is State Board of Emigration
! which includes among its members the Governor
and other State officials. The Legislature, too,


acts in the matter and this Board has money 1T


its disposal to be used for the purpose of send
! ing agents abroad to represent the many advan-
tages which that State gives to emigrants. 1t


prints pamphlets and books in both the German


and English languages and distributes them at


home seaports, in Germany and in other lands


whence it is desirable to obtain the needed sup
ply. One of these books, entitled The State
of Missouri is a perfect handbook for emf


grants, giving details of her mineral and agri-
cultural resources, and pointing out the portions


of the State best adapted to particular produce


tions and pursuits. Missouri suffered severely
during the war, but that State as we'll as many
others which brought into prominence
abroad by being frequently mentioned in con-
nection with the strife, are now reapng some
incidental advantage from that costly style of
advertising, and the talk in Europe among those
intending removal to America, is, it is remarked,


mostly Of those States California being beyond


the theater of war, was seldom referred to- and
is probably less known in continental Europe
than any other State in the Union. An Italian
gentleman, through Minister Marsh, offers the
Commissioner of Agriculture to bring a colony


of silk aud grape-growers and winemanufactu-
rers to New York or to New Jersey. He wonld
be more apt to bring them to California, if he
knew the many advantages of the State. But


who will tell him? Who will demonstrate facts
to him and to the thousands of others in Europe
and the Eastern States, who are anxious to bet
ter their condition? individuals cannot do it,
and if they essayed it. they would fail to con-
vince - the million" 1t is the proper work of
our entire people and they should press the
subject upon the Legislature at its approaching
session, that no more time need be wasted in
devsing practical means for spreading among
the crowded populations of other countries full
and correct Information concerning the welth
and manifold advantages of California home.
We cheerfully reproduce the above article,
convinced as we are, and as every unprejudiced
I ind ha of +L - "a, nf
the great benefit which would result to our State
if the propositions and suggestions therein offer
ed could be carried into effect. And here it is no
more than justice to say that paper within her
borders labors more earnestly for the present
well-being and future prosperity of California
than the Sacramento Daily Bee To us, favored
as we are with daily exchange from that Office


it is particularly interesting and instructive to
peruse from week to week its notings and sug-
gestions under the heading of t Condition of the
State" Every discovery, event or matter of mo-
ment transpirng, is noted and commented on,
+ always in the same truthful and plain-spoken
manner in which the above brief reference to our
present greatest need is chroniced.


'Up to the present time there has not been
in California more than a respectable prospect
ing party says the Bee. An assertion more
pregnant with truth never penned The
told acres of yet unoccupied and desolate lands,
her beautiful valleys, boundless forests, and
prospected placer and quartz mining domain, all
bear witness to the truth of the Bees assertion.


We need people-thousands upon thousands Of
of them-a population distributed after the
ner of the older and more prosperous States of
the Unon before know what real pros


perity is. And if necessary to that end we would


see the cost of coming hither reduced to the low
est paying figures for time and increased in an
equal ratio by all outgoing routes. We would
have the Legislature devise some scheme having


for its end the fostering and encouragement of
emigration. We would have it made the duty of
the press from the Oregon to the Mexican line to


promulgate for the benefit of '' the crowded pop
ulations of other countries full and correct inor-


nation concerning the wealth and manifold ad-
vantages of California as home " in every is
sue from the beginning to the end of the coming
year. We would have it preached from the pull


pit, and made known by missionaries sent to tell
the glad tidings in other climes. And further,we