and disinterestedly for the public good ; others with evident designs for 

 private and individual speculation more than for the benefit of the State. 

 All parties, whatever may be their favorite plan, and whatever motives 

 may prompt them to the advocacy of this plan, know full well that legis- 

 lative sanction and aid for the furtherance of their object is much to be 

 desired. As a general rule, the Legislature will find those plans which 

 are designed most for the benefit of individuals and least for the benefit 

 of the State will be advocated with the greatest apparent disinterested- 

 ness, but at the same time will be clung to with the greal >t tenacity 

 and urged with the greatest importunity by individuals who either for 

 themselves or for their friends, expect special and peculiar benefits. 

 While, therefore, we would thus counsel caution ? we would at the same 

 time most earnestly urge action on the part of the Legislature in this 

 matter. 



There is undoubtedly a great lack of information as to the real posi- 

 tion, advantages and resources of California, even among the people of 

 the Atlantic States, and particularly so among those of European coun- 

 tries from which our immigration would be most desirable. 



Then, the first point to be accomplished should be to reach those 

 countries and those people with correct information in regard to every 

 department of industry in California. We want to show them, in an 

 authoritative and reliable manner, through some channel upon which 

 they could and would depend and rely for correct information, the extent 

 of our agricultural, mineral and manufacturing resources; the extent to 

 which they are already developed; the facilities for continuing to develop 

 them, and the liberal remuneration, both to capital and labor, which 

 can be secured by those who will come and assist in their development. 



We want to show them more in detail the quality of our soils, the 

 nature and advantages of our climate, the kinds and quantities of the 

 necessaries and luxuries of life that can be produced here, and when and 

 at what prices those necessaries and luxuries can be sold, and what are 

 the means and expenses of their transportation to such market. 



We want, in fact, to show them, as we can, that California is the best 

 place in the world for the industrious rich man to increase his riches, 

 and the industrious poor man to become rich — the best place in the 

 world for all classes of industrious people to live easy and happy. .Now, 

 how shall this information be conveyed to these people ? 



THE STATE FAIR OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY. 



While we would not in the least place any impediment in the way of 

 any judicious and well intended effort by individuals or associations to 

 induce and assist an immigration of desirable people to this State, we 

 would call the attention of the Legislature to one of the best opportuni- 

 ties for accomplishing more in this direction, with the least expenditure 

 of money, and without any danger of imposition either on the State or 

 on the immigrants, than ever has been, or probably ever will again be 

 presented. The completion of the railroad across the continent the past 

 summer, has induced many of the business men of the Atlantic States, 

 including representatives of nearly every branch of industry, to visit 

 our coast for the purpose of personal observation, and to acquire reliable 

 information as to our advantages and resources. As a general thing, 

 they returned well pleased with what they saw here, and have become 

 so many additional witnesses as to the superior advantages here offered 

 to labor and capital. Many of our own people have visited their old 



