8KMI TItOrir C ALIFORAIA 
jOcpathnent. 
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T HK immigration work 10 aucre-rafally 
carried on bj f the Skmi-Thomc lot 
year, will ho one of tho special feature* of 
our paper during 1881. N. 0. Carter will 
have charge of thi# department, and that 
means business, as every one knows Carter 
is heart and soul in favor of settling up our 
vacant lands, that he knows how to bring 
people out here by fair representations, ami i 
that the people ho does induce to wake 
their homes with us will 
__ Since Mr. Stanford, of the Central and 
Southern Pacific Railwsvs, was before if',. 
Usiiruad Commissioners, and tb*i 
iho roads he repreaented were chartered 
the I’m ted State* 1 Government, and wer* 
iherefure not subject t« Slate control, and 
lienee that the Itailrnad (_'*unnii*et'm*re rtid 
no right or power to establish for them a 
schedule of freights and fare*. the Sen 
Krat»ci*cu C’hmutrJ* ha* been going for 
him and hi* mails. The /‘Am 
with the almiwt universal opinion of 
public as to invest with great interest anv 
thing shedding auch light a* will be regard 
. „ , . , W 1 •* pewitim or conclusive upon that sub 
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be honorable an I; tut.um making it mandatory upon the «Y.m 
respected citizens among us. 1 mikstontrrs to adopt *uch * schedule !care* 
Wo bespeak the continued co opr rsticn "flicer* m> di., rr ti u in the n atter 
of our citizens, knowing that the work done' , 1h /'T lh '-' '•>*? «>- f’ ! “" 
. . , , *od •■vplnit requirement. ,.f the fun la 
so for shows for Itself, and that o„r future I mental la . They in.i-t .d- pi , I,. ,i 
depends upon the cultivation of the fertile sod the well-known demand. . ( tf- ph> 
lands now laying idle in Southern Califur i r, 'M ulre * l *he hood* of the Conimmnoncr. 
„; a> I a heavy reduction from the present ezoi 
___hitunt rat* 
_ ~ , *H other causes ■« allribuUhlr the heavy 
AT HOME. 
One year ago, when we commenced the j adopted at the polls. It wsa thin potential 
publication of the Skmi-Tuoi-i. , we were , 111 "* P f,,,nme " t fe * ,ur '' “f that instrument 
compfflllitd to go to Su F»neUco to tfo our u ‘« '•■'"T 1 ' '? I”-'" 1 • 
. \ . . I combined resistance agamvt ita adoption 
priming, the facilities at home not being which menaced its W,w. The ,.e. pi. 
adequate. j had fur jrara complained of the wuprsasiows 
To-day wo are at home, thi* number be-1* 1 "* riat-iion* of the railroads. Time after 
ing printed and finished complete by th. | l * n "’ *hey had, nilim.it §... .-em, appealed t* 
. ■ , ... i their representative* in the Legislature (nr 
enterprising jimiting htxi.o of Mumi. I «r j rc , lr ... „ iu .., 
ik-II, Caystile & Mathcs, and shows lor i'self ‘ by means at mice humiliating re the ponidr 
what con bo done in the art preservative, and difgrseefel to the corjurations. r’i 
Thi* number contains mors fin* wood ' '»»**>'. *!•-pairing of removing three oppress 
engr-ing, tli.ii tivar lt.br. »» l~»""” *< 1 
. . •*« the p(Huiln in ibi* pruper one of servant, 
any magazine or paper published ami | ,ho jv.-ple iMermint , to create, lhr,mgh 
printed oil this coast. j the lumiaincnta! law, a I’aminiujon spring 
To print wood nut* in *n artistic maimer j "’K directly from thnn-elnw. and clothed 
requires special facilities ami fine work 1 f , ' e, ‘* r - v (' r ' Wi ’ T 1,1 1 " h “ l n 'l , "‘ 
.I,,, few printing esta 
Lmlod Males even attempt. It certainly ; freights ,„J (ares on lira various radn>a.i. 
speak* well for the enterprise of our home *»f tho State to such ao extent a» to make 
printers of tho Mirror I hat they are able lu l'r-'‘*uciion in tl.« interior pr.liubl* to th- 
pro.l»A. .0 line . rn.rk „ „„ II,,, | Tm*'' 
. 1 iKirter t<> *walUiw up all tin* nri'hu iii. orry 
,nonlh ', , jing the produce lu market H wa. U|.. 
Mr. 0. II. Kdwarda, the preaainon on ibis . foaling among the poople whiok iu*srto*J 
issue, earn* the reputation of an arti.tie | 1 protiai'm for a Itailnmil ( non-- u ■ 
printer. The work of printing engraving* V*" , ? 
is oons.dorod the graduating point of evwy , iftl j,.,,,.rn.'.^h th- ,„*...Ure d 
secomplialied pressman, and Mr. Kdwarda rundamonloi law. th mg thus luandami i, 
shows lio is master of Id. trade. ! I he Cnmnuuion must ••'■ry it. To fail to 
— —-- do ao would not only clothe (.Vummssioners 
"You can never wear those bn,.!* out," , with the foul taint of dial ■ - which now 
eaid a shoemaker. “Then I don't wanY hanga, and will forever bang, over the 
thorn," replied the customer, "do yon Hip ! names of legislator* who proved rwerear.i n- 
pose I want boots to wear m the bouseV*) their pledges made to the people, but would, 
the law.” 
The f'ArowMs «iao »ub),«He« the 
f easordOii'Hl of the** r<v*d., whrtm 
they «ay: -On the I9tli day af An, 
n. M wm duly bmorporMad and 
wir duty 
obeying 
rei a 
mjh-y 
organ- 
The 
mento, and the (tadread «. 
ter m-rnr down wish-iut 
two of the Oimmimiohrn 
f-ilrnml*. VI'# know <}> 
af the (Yimmiaainnen 
Uw and the people. 
ul i aid*. It has required a great deal of 
work and a gf eat amount of jh -stags «iamp* 
to armwvr *tl mac y inquiries. 
We will answer *• far as provable *H cren- 
matiK*tiooa hereafter through thi* autumn, 
(he iilhera to be answered by Utter, t.m**- 
.,it.tiUy lb. tmr**™. .tl 
ifUr paper far ISM wiii be a prominent fea¬ 
ture. Send in your nuettmii*. 
ms oHiocors. 
ao P.JilW* pen at Ply as., 
headed bpr the champion cockerel 
gvlca t'hief,"an importation frvu 
of Keefer, Chicago. Ill .are ine 
latter woa the winner of the fir* 
the great poultry vhuwin Chn-agi 
anJ >s believed to be by far die n 
err) on this eueat, and nut eive 
1 mtrd Stair*. Mr. JdUon raid «. 
for him, and he ought to be a n 
.Id 1*.-n’» bmwn l.rgkbirnsare asm 
finest in the country We kiv « 
penenre Uist hi* word about hr* 
egg* for batching la always true- 
.-an lie eaid u( another chicken 
Mr. Jdh 
to the i 
nd v 
