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Show CONSIDLRINGXrrLGTS. At the rate people areN. leaving the West coast ;rcrbaps 50,000 will have gone jby the first -of May. TLU is a great blessing and a great misfortune. A 'blessing to the terror-stricken people, a great misfortune mis-fortune to California, for- 50,000; young and strong people are worth ?30,000,000to'a young,' not half-de; 'veloped State. And because i of Uhe ;nature of the catastrophe it will require, a good; deal ef time .to ('replace that number, for almost every; one, so far as -; his on her influence can' go,), will 'deter others from going to take'th'eir placfe's.--. i . j .. . - This niay.be termed the secondary effects of the calamity. The'lide of humanity was in full flow to-i to-i ward California.'! It is stopped. '.This will be one of jthe depressing thoughts; upon San), Francisco retail j merchants. .The'tourist.travel to and from theeity jwas a great'asset. Iti amounted-in' trade to a vast Bum annually." It willVome back, slowly, but it will ,require'a long.time torestore it. -How many, will ,be deterredTfroin , going to the State and making ! homes there' can never be known. ; )" "7 :. The tide ot refugees flowing East will every one jbe a committee of one, to.discurage Eastern peopled But the catastrophe will not.'long delaythe regular ! course of commerce. Trainswill run,) so wilhBhips; the products of California, will find) a . market "East and off across tbV'Paciflc, and, thepucchasesOf the. (Golden Gate, will be heavier, than ever, for be it re-!membered,.a re-!membered,.a city .that held375,000 people, will have jto be rebuilt and nearly airthematerial will have to be carried there. (The lumber, the Jiardware, the ;glas8, the steel and iron everything. will have to be 'sent there until .trains and ships-will be overworked. ! Then two-thirds of .the State leaned upon San Fran- Cisco for supplies. ', Think of the stocks of goods ithat will have to be sent there. ' A great, unmatched - "fleet: was built up to, carry the first 300,000 people 'and their supplies' to California. - The food supply ; will be in great' part furnished by. California, all but i the salted meats and fish, but almost everything else will .have to' be, imported", and hundreds of thou-) thou-) sands outside of San Francisco lean directly upon 'the chief city for what they want. And California : is not yet a manufacturing State. The clothing is x ; sent there,' the boots and shoes, the picks and shov-r shov-r els -the bacon and hams almost everything save . breadstuffs, vegetables and fruits. A glance shows what a summer's work is on hand independent of re-; re-; building the city. Oregon and Washington can help some; but on this side of the Sierras, outside of some . - beef cattle, about the only things that can be sent i are gold and silver. Fortunately they, are compel- ling substances. Where they are' in plenty everything every-thing else can be obtained. " ' , The catastrophe was a terrible jolt, but it will be overcome. In a little while its effects will be all eradicated, except in the aching hearts that will ' give no sign. |