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for exportation, excepting; wine. What avo need most at this time are 

 extensive workshops for manufacturing agricultural im])lements and 

 woollen fabi'ics. One million dollai-s was paid this season for the imports 

 of agricultural implements, and still more are needed. We need woollen 

 factories to work up the seven million pounds of wool produced the past 

 season, which amount will be largely increased annually. The two 

 extensive woollen manufactories in San Fi-ancisco, Avith a ca])ital oi' one 

 million dollars, manufacturing over two million four hundred thousand 

 pounds of wool, employing four bundi-ed and fifty laborers, at a cost of 

 two hundred thousand dollars per annum, are not sufficient to supply all 

 our wants. We are yearly importing immense quantities of woollen 

 fabrics. If we would become rich and populous, we must save our goUl 

 by exporting manufactured goods instead of the raw material. Old 

 England, and New England as well, exhibit this fact. The}' have 

 become immensely rich by importing the raw material and exporting 

 manufactured goods. We can compete with the world in raising wool, 

 as our valleys and mountain sides furnish an unlimited field of pasturage 

 for sheep, at no cost. Stockton has all the advantages necessary for 

 woollen factories, and the one million pounds of wool produced in this 

 section, and exported, should be converted into cloths here. This city 

 Las been since eighteen hundred and fifty, and will continue to be^ the 

 leading market and emporium of trade for this agricultural district. It 

 has all the necessary advantages, being at the head of navigation, and 

 soon to be connected by railroads with other sections; being in the 

 midst, too, of a rich and productive agricultural countr}', near the 

 richest and most extensive gold and copper mines j-et discovered. 



This city and county excels all other sections of the State in raising 

 superior qualities of fruits and vegetables, and soon will in quantity; 

 and also in the construction of agricultural implements and '-jirairic 

 schooners" or mammoth waacons. Woollen fiictories should be our first 

 and next enterprise. 



The culture of cotton and rice, two great leading staples of consump- 

 tion and commerce, have been sufficiently tested to warrant their culture 

 on an extensive scale. From this count}' to Mexico, cotton has been 

 raised this season enough to test perfectly the certainty that it can be 

 raised to great perfection, and in large quantities, with a little irrigation, 

 or half the amount that corn requires. The southern counties contain 

 millions of acres and a. climate perfectly adapted to its profitable culture. 



Mr. Matthew Keller, of Los Angeles, planted this season, in March, 

 one hundred acres. The result in production, both in quantity and 

 quality, is a success, and has ap])lied for the State premium for producing 

 one hundred acres. The cost per acre in raising this cotton was not 

 more than that of corn or cereals. 



When capitalists learn that producing wool and cotton, and manufac- 

 turing them into fabrics for the six hundred million of Chinese and 

 Japanese, instead of investing in wildcat mines and sand banks, then 

 our State will become rich and prosperous beyond present compre- 

 hension. 



EXTENT AND CAPACITY OF THE SAN JOAQUIN DISTRICT. 



This agricultural district, comprising the eight counties of San Joaquin, 

 Calaveras, Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Mariposa, Merced, Fresno, and Tulare, 

 presents a surface of seventeen thousand seven hundred and ninety-six 

 square miles, or eleven million three hundred and eighty-eight thousand 



