All About California
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Excerpt from All About California: And the Inducements to Settle There They also supplied Europe with provisions and the raw material for manufactures much cheaper than they could be obtained from other sources. Thus all parties were benefited. Migration, as a source of wealth, has not yet ceased, and will not cease for many years to come. It is proper that the enterprising and industrious should migrate from old States, which offer no good chance for them, to new countries, which present more favorable opportunities. Advantages of California for Emigrants. The present population of California is sparse; and there is the more room therefore for the growth of trade, and more opportunities for new comers to establish themselves in business. It is far better for the emigrant to go to a new country than to an old one; better to go to one where the population will double than to one where it will increase only twenty per cent, in five years. The population of Illinois is 2,500,000, and that of California is 600,000. An addition of 1,000,000 is only forty per cent. to the former, and one hundred and sixty-six per cent. to the latter; and the increase in the value of land and in the amount of trade is about in the same proportion. The denser the population the smaller will be the relative growth and the profits necessarily accompanying growth. Other things being equal, the emigrant should always prefer the sparsely-settled States, and California has in this respect a decided advantage over the more populous country in the northern part of the Mississippi Valley. The following are some of the advantages of California for emigrants: 1. Many railroads will soon be built. The road from Stockton to Visalia, a distance of one hundred and sixty miles, will run through the richest grain district of the State, a large part of it now uncultivated because there is no mode of transporting produce to market at any expense that farmers can afford to pay. The Oregon and California Railroad is now being built from Marysville to the State line, two hundred and thirty miles, opening up the northern part of the Sacramento Valley, and bringing to California the trade of Oregon and Washington. Congress has granted 12,800 acres of land for each mile, and requires the construction of twenty miles every year. A hundred miles are to be completed in 1870. The Vallejo and Cloverdale Railroad, seventy miles long, will open up Sonoma and Mendocino counties, which are among the richest parts of the State. The Copperopolis Railroad, thirty-eight miles long, running eastward from Stockton, will be built soon. Congress has given 230,000 acres of land to the road, and the company owning the franchise say it shall be built this year. 2. Promises are made that the thirty-second parallel Southern Pacific Railroad shall be built soon. A number of other railroad projects are seriously entertained, and some of them will probably be carried to completion in a few years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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