182 RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA.. 



CHAPTER VH. 



MAmiFACTURES, ETC. 



133. Coarse Work. Among manufactures are here in- 

 cluded lumbering, fishing and hunting, brewing, and the dis- 

 tillation of spirits generally ; but the making of wine and the 

 distillation of brandy are treated under the head of Agricul- 

 ture, and the reduction of ores as part of Mining. The man- 

 ufactures of California are mostly of a coarse class, requiring 

 little labor, relatively, and much raw material, and of classes 

 costing much, relatively, for importation. Our blankets and 

 coarse flannels are of home manufacture, our broadcloths 

 and merinos are imported. We make wrapping, but not let- 

 ter paper. We have factories to make wine and pickle-bottles, 

 but not plate or cut-glass. Having a large supply of hides, 

 lead, wheat, barley, and grease, we find it cheaper to make 

 our leather, lead-pipe, shot, flour, beer, and soap, than to send 

 the raw material 19,000 miles by sea to the shops in the At- 

 lantic, and pay for manufacture there and for freighting both 

 ways. But our finest leather, our most costly malt liquors, 

 and our most esteemed toilet soaps, come from abroad. Nitric 

 and sulphuric acids, matches, dynamite and blasting powder, 

 are made here, because the freight on them round Cape Horn 

 is very high. Their dangerous character forbids long trans- 

 portation. We refine our kugar, because we get most of it 

 from the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands. Our wire-rope is 

 produced here, because it must be made to order and deliver- 

 ed promptly ; mirrors are silvered here, because the process is 



