Year: 1874

LDIIOK JOURNAL II lndlle lnc 1Ol-
lowing, not that there is any fresh or i'm
portant news to communicate, but merely
to give your readers birds eye view of
matters and things as they present them
selves at this center Of business and in
teHgence. All our interests and indus
tries included, this is, perhaps, the most
prosperous season our people have yet
experienced on this Coast. The products
Of our mines, orchards, vineyards. gar
dens and fields, our Aocks and herds, our
forests and fisheries, have all been, or
promise to be unusually large. The yield
Of the cereal crops now maturing will ex-
ceed that Of any former year twenty or
thirty per cent, while the out-turn Of our
mines viii be much above the average of
late years, and fruits of all kinds will be
both excellent and abundant. Most of
our manufacturing and mechanical pur-
suits are fourishng, while labor OF nearly
all kinds receives ready employment and
fair reward. Domestic trade and foreign
commerce are active, our exports, which
last year showed gratifying increase,
being likely this season to swell into still
Larger -propQrtions.


Farming and grazing land as we'll as
city property, are everywhere advancing
in value. The immense irrgating canals
now in course of construction or about to
be projected have given an impulse to
farming that must advance it to and for
ever maintain it at the head Of all our
great industries. Through the use Of ir-
rigation the products Of the soil will be
greatly diversified while its capacities will
be more, than doubled. When recourse


is had to this great aid two or three crops
of different kinds can be madeo on the same
land every year, while such a thing as
the loss Of a crop from drought, now the
| principal cause Of failure, will hardly be
known. The consciousness of this fact
will inspire general confidence in agricul-
tural pursuits and lead thousands to en-
gage in them who would otherwise have
been deferred from doing so. From the
mineral regions we have accounts Of new
and rich discoveries being made, the most
noted Of these consisting of cinnibar de-
posts within the limits of our own State,
some Of which are of magnitude that
promise largely increased quicksilver
production at an early day.


Overland Travel and Increase OF


Population.


Last years immigration added about
10000 to the permanent population Of the
State. The increase this year will, it is
believed, be much larger. For the better
element Of this immigration we are in
debted to the Trans Continental Railroad.
which, for reasonable fare, comfort and
safety, is not eXcelcd elsewhere. The
capti0us may grow at the management
as they please, it has, nevertheless been
generally characterized by ability, liber-
ality and a just regard for the interests of
the travelling and commercial public.
The benefits inuring from this thorough
fare are beginning to tell in very mark
ed way in this State. Thousands of cap
itoli4ts, business men and wealthy tourists
visit Us annually, who otherwise would
never see California. The State is full of
these people who, departing, carry away
the most favorable impressions Of our
soil, climate and resources, while they
leave several millions of dollars behind
every year. 1t is through this class Of
visitors that the attention Of foreigners
will be soonest turned this way and our
strong points Of attraction be most effect
ually published abroad.


BnOyancy of the Mining Share Mar


het and death OF the Sufro TuIl-


nef Scheme.


Comstocll stocks livencd up greatly
few days since by reason of the Sutro
Tunnel incubus being suddenly heavcd
off it, through stunning blow dealt the
monster by the Judiciary Committee of
the L. S. Senate. For years Sutro has
been the Old Man Of the Mountain, op
pressing leading Washoe stocks with pre-
tended claims to royalties and threats of
litigation, until at last these companies
have turned on their adversary and van
pushed the devil by fighting him with
fire ! This fellow Sutro is probably the
most impudent man living, his talent for
downright eflrontery being absolutely re-
splendent Some day very entertain
ing history after the style of Jack Shep-
pard, will be written Of his feats in this
direction. After being suffered to go on
for years with impunity, what seems to
have wrought the final ruin of Sutro was
his mean and treachcrous conduct to-
wards VIM. c. Ralston and his coarse
abuse Of that gentleman and others who
had eXaspcrated the fellow by refusing to
notice or have anything to do with him.
Not that Ralston himselfevor condescend-
ed to trouble his head about Sutro or his !
sayings. Yet as every one knew how
utterly incapable VIM. c. Ralston was Of
anything dishonest or mean, sort of
spontaneous resentment grew up in the
community, and this was, that devoured
the helpless wretch like a consuming fire.
Unseen and silent this incensed public |
sentiment did its work, the interests as
sailed and the parties maligned rcfraining
from any hostile movement against the
now eXtinguishod tunnel builder.


Poor Sutro though squelched and gone
in it is not at all likely that he will rcln-
qush his daring scheme, but that brood
ing over it, he will come at last to be
confirmed monomaniac on the subject,
and that we shall yet see him perambu- |