Year: 1878

not, as a community, self sustaining.
We depend too much upon the outside
world for necessities Of life of too many
kinds, and unless we can devise
means TO become more self sustaining,
and less dependent upon the seasons, we
are bound as community to grow poor
er each year.


We depend upon other sections of the
country for our supplies Of too many diff
ferent articles. We may say without
using a figure of speech that with the ex-
ception Of fruit, garden vegetables and
hay, we have to go abroad for everything.
Our mining implements, our clothing,
and our food is brought into the comfy
at great expense. In return what have
we to export? What product Of indus
try is there which we can turn into mon
ey to meet this constant dram on our re-
sources. For the drain goes on day after
day and year after year whether the rains
fall or not and retrench is we may we
cannot shut off this drain of money to any
very 0ppreciable extent. In exchange
for what we purchase we have but the one
thing-the yield of the mines. Were
this yield constant and not fuctuatng
and upon the basis of seasons Of ordinary
favorableness, such tor instance rs the
seasons Of ~, '73 and "a averaged, we
could pay all demand upon our resources
and add yearly something to our wealth,
but where everything goes out and but
little comes in in return, we need not say
that business Of all kinds will soon be de-
pressed. We illustrate this fact to day.
1t shows itself in every department of
business it shows itself in the additional
length Of the delinquent tax list. And it
is logical enough that it should. The
money we dig out Of the ground can
not last for our necessities forever, we
must become producers as well as con
sumers. Cut off our expenses as we may
we still find that there is demand which
cannot be cut Off And this brings us to
the consideration of 20 what extent we
can become self-sustaIning. In some re-
CARDS we have to dismiss the idea at once
rs one of the impossibilties. But there
are ways of retrenchment which in com
paratively flush times are lost sight of.
Suppose for instance we buy nothing
abroad which can be raised or manufac-
tured at home. The money thus used
will be retained in the county and it would
be false economy to send it outside our
our bounds because the imported article
can be obtained little cheaper. If, for
illustration one pair Of boots made in
Weayeryille, costs just the same and last:
just rs long as two pairs of boots brought
from San Francisco, true economy would
dictate that we should purchase the home
made article. We thus retain the money
in our own community whore it stands
chance Of beneGtlng us, instead Of send
ing it abroad where we know beforehand
1t can never advantage US in any respect.
To be self sustaining we must, in the first
instance begin by sustaining each other.
BY carrying out such principle in all our
business transactions we can manage to
retain within our borders many II dollar
now sent abroad


Another thing to be done is to foster
and develop new branches Of industry
whenever practicable. Quartz mining is
one Of these industries and it has received
II new impetus Of late from the develop
ments recently made Mt DeadWood and
Bul!ychoop. 1t is but reasonable to sup
pose that II county which has so many
places which in former years proved rich
in placer gold, should have veins OF gold
bearing quartz in the neighbOrhood which
would prove a source of wealth to the find
ers and become IN important factor in the
resources OF the county could they be
found and developed. In quartz mining
there is not so much depending upon the
character of the seasons, Ms in the pacefs,
where heavy rains are a necessity before
the gold can be extracted. Quartz min
ing and prospecting is, however an Uncor-
tain business, and one in which men who
are rot forchanded cannot afford to en-
gage unless backed up by those who are.
We submit the ques ton to our people that
ii would be for the future interests of the
county in every way, TO encourage pros
pecting for quartz in those localities whore
there is reasonably good ground to believe
paying veins can be found. 1t is auseless
expenditure OF time to search Tor gravel
locations unless along the banks of living
water courses, or in companies of suiii
cient strength of resources TO convey wa
Ter to the mines when found. Our county
has already numerous gravel banks which
must remain unproductive unless water
from the larger streams can be conveyed
upon them. There is ground for well
founded belief that good quartz veins ex-
ist near Weaverville, Canyon Creek,
East Fork, Minersvile, and in fact in al
most every locality we could name where
the yield Of placer gold has been good
If they could be discovered they woul d
become a source of lasting wealth and
bring live and activity to all branches Of
business.


A NOTABLE DEATH.-Hon. Nathan
Porter, State Senator from Alameda
died at the State Capital last Saturday
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