106 RURAL CALIFORNIA 



the sale and transportation thereof. In this way the 

 countryside is assuming an initiative and proprietary 

 interest in city building and manifesting its self-con- 

 fidence and resourcefulness. 



All manufacturing, however, in which California 

 has engaged has shown some picturesque features. 

 Almost immediately after the gold rush of 1849-1850, 

 foundries and machine-shops were equipped in San 

 Francisco to supply miners' machinery. Inventors 

 were active and new and more capacious gold-extract- 

 ing outfits were designed and constructed than were 

 previously known. When mining declined in Cali- 

 fornia, such machinery was still in demand for ship- 

 ment to newer mines of the Pacific Slope and abroad. 

 As styles of mining changed and new methods were 

 employed, new machinery was produced to serve 

 them, but, although this line of manufacturing was of 

 considerable importance decades ago, it was of too 

 specialized a character to become a great industry. 

 One item out of the mining requirements that has 

 survived and become distinctively great is the manu- 

 facture of pumps, which has increased because of 

 multiplied uses for pumps of great power and capac- 

 ity. Their services in large undertakings in drain- 

 age and irrigation indicates that these devices are 

 now vastly more important to agriculture than they 

 ever were to mining. 



Another picturesque line of California manufac- 

 ture is ship-building. Many ships have been built 

 for freight and fishery service in near-by seas and for 

 ocean-transit as freighters and liners; a few war- 



