442 RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA. 



mon laborers, from one dollar and seventy-five cents to two 

 dollars and fifty cents per day ; farm laborers, and men and 

 maid servants, from twenty to thirty dollars per month. Our 

 imports and exports of treasure are larger in proportion to our 

 population than those of any other State. Our chief city has 

 an extensive foreign trade and commerce, and it has an un- 

 doubted supremacy in the commerce of the eastern shore of 

 the Pacific. 



365. Slow Growth. With many drawbacks, which have 

 been set forth clearly and unreservedly, California is one of 

 the richest parts of the globe. It possesses most of the lux- 

 uries of Europe, and many of the advantages which the Val- 

 ley of the Ohio had forty years ago. It offers an open career 

 to talents. In a few years of its history it. has astonished the 

 world, and its chief glories are still to come. The arts, the 

 sciences, the refinements of life, are to find a favored home in 

 California. 



Why is it then that the permanent population of the State 

 has not increased more rapidly ? Why did so many of the 

 early immigrants leave her shores, never to return, by their 

 departure depriving her of the greatest element of wealth ? 

 The great cause was the mismanagement of land-titles, in 

 both the agricultural and mineral regions, by the Federal 

 Government ; and myriads of men, unable to secure homes, 

 went to the Eastern States, where they could find permanent 

 residences. 



The unsettled condition of society here, resulting from the 

 insecurity of land-titles, the great expense of bringing families 

 from the Eastern States, the uncertainty of the crops in the 

 drier valleys, the scarcity of irrigating canals and of reclama- 

 tion dikes, all contributed to prevent such an increase of popu- 

 lation as the natural resources of the State, if properly de- 

 veloped, would have demanded. 



366. The Future. The growth of California must be 

 constant, and her future great and glorious. If sky and earth 



