Year: 1877

dock over night, or in an open lot for
months, If II is not convenient TO store II
under roof But when the late fall, and
with II the plowing and wheat planting
season comes, the waiting, the watching,
and the longing for rain commences. This
year the rain held Off until the last of Janu-
ary, which fact created almost a panic
among all classes. This community is look
ing more and more every year to agricul-
ture, fruit and stock raising as the source
and foundation Of its prosperity. The rains
very seldom fail TO come in time and vol.
umo sufficient TO produce good crops OF
grain, and artificial irrigation by canals,
ETC., is being provided as fast as the means
of land owners will permit, for those fruits
and vegetables which require more mois-
ture than they naturally get. Water is
found almost everywhere within the reach
of well augurs and pumps, and wind mills
arc very common. A few days ago l visit
ed some friends in Alameda, just across the
bay, and brought home a bouquet of flow-
ers as large as could grasp or conv venient-
ly carry. Among them we've magnolias,
fuchsias, geraniums, ailauthus, and Gala





air, without any particular care or atten-
tion. My bouquet also contained japanese
oranges, century plant blossom, and an
olive branch with four full grown olives
upon 1t. l took pains 10 measure one calla
lily which thought of extraordinary size.
1t measured six and one half inches by
eight and one half inches. Occasionally
FIRE in our parlors or sitting rooms adds to
our comfort, yet l believe there are more
parlors aud chambers in this city without
CRATES, or chimneys or provision for warm.
ing, than there are with. AT irst pro-
nounced this chilly climate, now l have
learned to enjoy it and consider it the hap
py medium for which have often sighed.
Old Caliorniaus who revisit the East and
get pinched by cold or Iarched by heat,
don't like it, and return here il they can
possibly make ii convenient. If my cli-
matte statements seem to be somewhat in
congruous ii only proves what said OF the
climate 10 begin with-that it is difficult 10
explain.


Would 1 advise the unemployed of the
East to emigrate 10 California? Much as
we desire an increase Of population, much
as would delight in the presence of my
old friends and acquaintance, and conf
dent as am that they would, if successful
in business here, enjoy the climate and
double the pleasures Of life, l cannot an
swer with an unqualified yes. If you are
master of good trade, or If you have
some valuable patent, agency or monopoly
which you can control or if you are offer
ed good position, and have wealthy or
influential friends here If you wish to be-
come farmer, stock or fruit raiser, a
wine maker, and have a thousand or more
dollars TO get a start with if you are en-
ergetic, industrious and economical, come
by all means; you can do better here than
any where else. But if you are determin-
ed to live in great city at all hazards, if
you seek and are fit for nothing but po-
sition as book-keeper, salesman, clerk or
small trader or speculator, don't come. We
have plenty of unemployed here of this
class already. San Francisco is large
city, true, and ranks third in the extent of
its commerce in the United States. But its
manufactures and its local trade reach less
than two millions of people upon this coast.
To come here from the East, with its forty
millions, TO build up a business would
seem like exchanging large field for a
small one. Therefore 1 say do not come
here with slim resources aud no prospects,
and wait for something To turn up. The
tin. for that is past. The loose gold from
the hillsides, valleys and beds of streams
has been pretty much all gathered in. 1t
requires hard labor, heavy machinery, and
capital, TO reach into the bowels of the
earth TO find it, aud wrest il from the hinty
quartz. But we are increasing in wealth
and population yearly. When the mines
shall cease to yield their precious metals
and our stock exchanges and mining sharps
are no more; when the bonnazas are among
the things that were, and this golden age
shall have passed away, our other mines
of coal and iron, of copper and lead and
quicksilver, now known, but almost an
touched-will be brought into prominence.
The baser metals will assert their sway,
and our other resources Of grain and fruit
and wine, wool, hides, and perhaps silk and
cotton, the product of all of which are now
in their infancy. They will carry this
country forward TO greater wealth and
more enduring prosperity than has yet
been enjoyed under the reign of our poten-
tate, GOLD. EDWARD BURNHAM.