A CHANCE FOR MANUFACTORIES. 



MANUFACTURING SITES. 



With land miles in extent, where grading, piling and blasting is un- 

 necessary, such lands being procurable at from one hundred to one thousand 

 dollars per acre, the question of sites for manufacturing is certainly not one 

 hard to answer in California. The larger as well as smaller manufacturing 

 concerns of the East are as far as possible avoiding the greater cities and 

 are placing their plants, even though removal be necessary, in smaller towns 

 where the elements of labor agitation do not exist and where their employees 

 may become home owners. California has a thousand towns where all of 

 the above requirements can be found, and in the further presentation of this 

 subject I hope to show reasons why, over and above the many shown herein- 

 before, the Eastern manufacturer can well consider this State as a promis- 

 ing location. 



TRANSPORTATION, HOME AND FOREIGN MARKETS. 



With the longest coast line of any State in the Union, with the waves 

 of the greatest ocean known to earth lapping her shores, with the shipping 

 of the world lying at anchor in her harbors, with several of the greatest trans- 

 continental railway lines tapping her every portion, California has certainly 

 all the inducements, from a transportation standpoint, which any State 

 could hope to present. 



When the possibilities of manufacturing, as cited above in climatic 

 conditions, cost of fuel, raw material and manufacturing sites, are given 

 due weight, and when thought is given to the transportation facilities here 

 afforded, it will be seen that it will pay to ship into California from the Far 

 East of the United States the raw material, put it into a finished product and 

 re-ship it to an Eastern market, and that this can be done in times of de- 

 pression in commercial circles, and the product sold at a profit, and for less 

 than the Eastern manufacturer can sell it at. These are great points, and 

 once carefully noted they will result in making Cailfornia the leading manu- 

 facturing section of the Union, hence of the world. 



As to home markets, the constantly increasing population of this 

 State, which is destined to be the most densely populated in the Union, 

 and which could support the population of France — 38,000,000 — the 

 problem of home markets is one easily solved. California is importing 

 shoes, belting, mining machinery, manufacturing machinery and tools of all 

 kinds, agricultural implements, wooden ware, crockery and glassware, furni- 

 ture, woolen goods and many other things, and if the demand did not exist 

 here for these products they would not be sent here. 



As to foreign markets, the greatest consumers of American-made 

 goods are in the islands of the Pacific and the Orient. Statistics show that 

 the development of trade for American manufactures, within a given period, 

 ,was 250 per cent in Siam against 15 per cent in Germany. The old 

 European countries lie nearest to the Atlantic seaboard and have, in a great 

 majority of cases, their own manufactories, which are in keen competition 

 with those of our country, while, on the other hand, the countries lying off 

 the P.-cific seaboard have few manufactories and comparatively none which 

 can in anyway compete with those of the United States. All of these markets 

 are most easily reached from California and it is obvious therefore that the 

 manufacturing possibilities of this State must sooner or later be recognized. 

 It is important, however that each community in California awake to the 

 value of manufacturing and offer inducements to manufacturers similar to 

 those offered by Eastern places which have long ago learned the lesson 

 taught by the prosperity of every town and village which has welcomed with 

 open arms the establishment of a factory. Imperial as is California in her 

 mining, agricultural and horticultural development, she has but to add 

 to these industries manufacturing to become invincible. The four industries 

 enumerated form a combination which in times of financial depression can 

 withstand against the most overwhelming odds, and the one supporting 

 the other and the other the one, makes possible a condition of society not 

 admissible under any other circumstances. 



