Year: 1866

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vet home production of one kind or another
is the foundation of the prosperity of any
people, aud the proportion Of production to
consum ptioo is the measure Of that prosper
ity. If the people Of Waha Walla im>
port to greater figures than they produce,
they. will soon End themselves running un'
der, and they must become insOlvent. On
the contrary, if they produce more than the
value of what they need to import, they are
that much the richer, whether it be 10 wheat,
or clothing or anything else. The market
for grain and breadstuHs is limited, and
would it not be just as well for less amount
Of those articles to be raised and others to
be substituted, which would employ larger
portion Of the labor available; and increase
its variety? About as much means would
bs brought into the Valley probably if less
grain or -four were thrust on the market, as
now, and the surplus labbr devoted to raising
wool, ETC., and manufacturing cloths, for
which there is a considerable market, pro-
Vided they can be presented of finish and at
rates to compete with what is imported. The
emigrants who pass through here, the peoN
pie of Montana and all who trade with the
people of Walla Walla, need clothing and
many other manufactured articles, as well as
grain and -four, and if such things can be
produced here, why not have them pro.
dused and for sale and thus increase the
means of gain to the couuty2 In other
words, we ought to have manufacturing es-
adjustments in full swing, producing not
only what the people of the Valley need, but
what travellers through need, and what the
people of the neighboring Territories need,
What we sell to outsiders is always paid tor
in money, and the greater the extent Of the
trade the more the gain, and the greater the
variety Of trade the less the variety to import.
, There have been times when wool in the
raw could have been raised in this Valley
aud shipped out of it at profit, but there
was very little to ship, and further, the time
is now, and has often been, when many
things besides -four and wheat could have
been shipped out of the county, provided
quality and price could have been made just
right. Would it not be better if WALL


Walla Valley produced hundred different
articles for sale than only one or two H.? The
people will one day see that the demand for
our surplus breadstuffs will fall of, and if
we wish to make neighboring Territories
continue tributary, we must produce other
things which they need, and which they


will be glad to buy, to say nothing Of pros
duciHg things needed by our own popula>
tiOn, instead Of having to import them and


having only -four to pay for them. The mUre
you can produce the more you have to sell,
and the less you have to buy, and the more
you will have to buy with, provided you pro-
duce Whist the market wants, and cOnse.
quently the more independent you become.
which is what everybody is thinking about
and aiming at. lu this view, then, it seems
rightto US 10 encourage every kind OF use


full and paying production. 1t is something
to have plenty OF bread to sell to rich and


hungry man, and it is also something to have


plenty Of clothing to sell to rich aud half
clad man. 1t will be good policy on the
part OF Walla Walla Valley if she so direct


her industries as to have not only bread, but
clothes and everything else to sell, Of her
own production, When anybody wants to buy.