Year: 1871

HOME AFFAIRs.-If anything was needed to
demonstrate the resources and self-sustaning ca
pacity Of this county, that want has been sup
piled by the bad mining seasons of the past two
years. When 1t is considered that g,d dust is
our only article Of export, and that nearly all
we eat and drink is imported, it would naturally
be expected that scanty yield from the mines,
for two successive years, would cause financial
distress and lead to business failures. In addi-
tiun and preceding the unfavorable weather,
the closing of the Bank at Weavervlle, in 1867
was attended with severe losses to our citizens
that in less favored communities would have
affected business of all sorts, temporarily at least
if not for long time. Yet under all these un-
favorable circumstances, with a constant out-go
of dust and coin and greatly diminished supply
of the precious metal, is it not strange that there
has not been a failure of single business house
in the county? Yet this is the fact and, more
than this, our merchants have all the time paid
their bills promptly. We are reliably informed
that the credit of Trinity county merchants is
No. l, at San Francisco. The facts warrant
it and we would presume this to be the case, if
we had no knowledge aside from what we know
of the condition CT business here. 1t is fire.
quently argued that the agricultural counties
offer greater inducements to and are far safer for
those who desire to engage in merchandising
than the mining districts We certainly think
the reverse true, and the facts prove il. We un-
dertake to Say tnat there is not farming COM
munity in this State, dependent alone upon agri-
cultural pursuits, that could have borue the
strain upon its resources consequent upon fail
ure of crops, for two years consecuively, without
its traders becoming bankrupt. Not could
have sustained himself without drawing upon
foreign capital. We believe to-day that, though
there is general cry of hard times and although
money is unusually scarce, there is no place on
this Coast where laboring man can get hold Of
a twenty dollar piece easily as he can in
Trinity county. Our merchants generally do a
profitable business and have just passed through
the severest trial they ever had or are likely to
have. This Winter set in dry and matters looked
blue for while. Three bad Winters would have
been rough There has been enough storm to
insure a fair yield from the mines, and we are in
no danger financially. We predict that more





washed up before with the same amount Of
labor and water. Our reasons that nearly
all the claims are well opened and productive
the poorer ones being unworked or abandoned.
Next, the miners have had an abundance of time
ia which TO rig and prepare their claims and this
has been done, so that they will be worked to
the best advantage. Further, the hoys gen
orally hard up, and having watched and waited
nd all hpfnr aA l.
everything count. Gold dust is coming iu freely
already, and il will not be long before our debts
below will be paid Buyers will then have to
bring up coin to be added to the amount that is
now in circulation among us. We say for
Old Trinity that one need suffer from hunger
or cold. Erery able-boded inhabitant can earn
an honest living f.he chooses If money is not
flush, AS compared with former years, still there
is enough to buy the necessaries, comforts and
luxuries of life Business is established upon
solid foundation and conducted upon safe prin-
eiples Ought we not to be satisfied?