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sense. All portions of the State should have an equal voice in its man- 

 agement, in order to secure an equal chance in its benefits. All the 

 industries should have a share of its consideration, in proportion to their 

 present and prospective importance. Hence agriculture, being the great 

 industry of the State, and being the one likely to attract by far the 

 greatest number of immigrants, should have a proportional share of 

 representatives on the Board of Managers. It would not be improper 

 that the principal officers of the prominent agricultural associations 

 should have a place and voice in such organization. This idea would 

 tend to divest it of any seeming personal or private character, and to 

 give it the confidence of all classes. The agents and appointees of such 

 an organization, who are likely to come in contact with the people, 

 especially with immigrants, should be selected for their integrity and 

 competency. They should know California, and be able to present her 

 advantages of every character, to the world, in a clear and forcible 

 manner. 



KIND OF IMMIGRANTS. 



The class of immigration we most need in California is such as will 

 come to make permanent homes for themselves and families. We want, 

 above all others, persons skilled in a great variety of agricultural pur- 

 suits. We want persons skilled in the culture and manufacture of silk, 

 in all its departments. We want vine growers and wine makers. We 

 want beet raisers and sugar manufacturers. We want tea culturists 

 and fruit preservers. In short, we want people skilled in the produc- 

 tion of all the necessaries and luxuries of life, for we have a State 

 possessed of all the requisite conditions for their successful cultivation. 

 We want such as will bring with them sufficient means, energy and 

 capacit}' to enter upon business for themselves. Such as will buy land 

 and become citizens and practical and prosperous farmers, or build 

 shops and factories, and follow some mechanical or manufacturing occu- 

 pation. In order to induce this class of persons to leave their homes 

 and business in the Atlantic States and come here to reside, we must 

 promise them opportunities for making better homes and better busi- 

 ness here. Are we prepared in good faith to make such promises? 

 And, having made them, are we prepared in like good faith to fulfil 

 them? So far as natural advantages, such as climate, soil and location 

 are concerned, we are prepared to answer both these questions in the 

 affirmative. We may also say there are millions of acres of arable land, 

 much of it as good as any now cultivated in the State, lying idle and 

 unoccupied, and that by the completion of railroads already projected, 

 and many of them now being built, much of this land will in a short 

 time be brought within easy distances of good markets for products 

 that may be raised upon it. There are, however, some clouds which 

 throw a shade over the picture we might present to the immigrant. 

 One of these, and perhaps the most difficult one to remove, is found in the 

 fact that a large portion of this unoccupied and idle land has already 

 passed from the hands of Government into the hands of capitalists and 

 corporations, who purchased it in anticipation of selling at a large 

 advance to immigrants, whom it was expected the completion of the 

 Pacific Railroad would bring into our State. This fact becoming known 

 abroad, has operated and is still operating to prevent such immigration, 

 so that'while the landholders have failed in their anticipated sales and 



