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Show As an illustration of the tendency to go abroad for articles that can be supplied more cheaply at home, the Alia relates that during the last twelve months "there were imported from the east, per rail, by the merchants of San Francisco, 300 car loads of hams iu the aggregate, 3,000 tons at an average cost of 15 cents per pound, gold, or a total of $900,000. Large quantities were also imported via I'anama and Cape Horn. Add to which the importations of bacon, salt pork and lard, we will find that we have paid the eastern pork-packers in a Biogle year, more than $3,000,000 for hogs, salt, barrels and smoke. This is alt wrong. There ia no country on the face of the globe where ho meat can be so cheaply produced as in our own California and Oregon." |