| Show california cursed with grain the wheat crop in california the past sum mer has been very abundant and anufrom from report reports there is a large surplus on hand band more than the people know what to do with and many mani many im ace cursing because there is so much bread stuns stuffs and so little cash the farmers with their granaries overflowing are complaining of cc tight inight timed times the following 0 is from the napa Report vR napa county today to t oay day d is I 1 is cursed with a plethora of grain we have nave more wheat than we want pr know what to do with and as all have a surplus nobody can find a market for the product of his fields four large warehouses are crammed to overflowing and tens teria of thousands of sacks still remain in the hands bands of our farmers this county depends almost entirely on the grain crop for its supply of mone yand so great is the yield bield this year that the market price is less than tian the c cost OS t of production auction the result is that ther there 11 is no moner money in circulation and a whole years indebtedness stands everybody is in debt to everybody and nobody can pay such times we have never seen in this part of the world and hope not see it again the monn morn property a man has the worse he is off especially ally if his taxes are unpaid for he can sell nothing except at an immense sacrifice and still it costs something to hold on to what he has we believe the amount of taxes to be raised this year ig is some the money to pay this sum or even one quarter of it is not to be found we believe in the whole country we can see no prospect of relief even temporary until our grain crop is sent to market and sold even if it must be at a low figure what else can we part with to procure money enough even to pay our taxes we cannot borrow ourselves out of debt even if lenders were to be found and from present appearances there is but tittle little encouragement for em tut iut eefting acting better prices we are sorry to sault say it ut we fear that many must roust lose who ought to all previous calculations to haw havu made a fair profit upon the years carmi farming operations at present business is staF stagnated nate 11 for want of money arid and everybody waiting for better prices in the grain market the martinez gazette says that the main dependence of its people is upon their grain crops and stock and now when wheat will sell for one and nd three eights 0 cents per pound and the feed is so 8 hort short that cattle are in a fair way of starving many persons being compelled to sell a portion of their stock at an enormous sacrifice to prevent p such a calamity and ana an d to raise laise money to meet their current expenses it is peculiarly tight times for ux the farmers 21 it may seem strange to some that thera there should be a scarcity of money in a land of gold and that there should be so mush distress in a state that has been considered one of the best in the union and more to be desired than sterile utah by many who have left this tej territory and gone there to better their condition if alithe ail all the reports of distress in that country in consequence of the scarcity of mon money eyare ade ane true the people there are not any better oft off than they are here of the two the scarcity of money is preferable to a scarcity of bread 1 and if it the order of things in that reset respect I 1 is ever ewer reversed there as will probably be the case erelong oy th there er e will be more e cursing ur than ihan 1 there is now some who have lately come from california report that there are many in that state who have gone there from these valleys because the they thought that they could not get a living here who would give all they possess to get back which no doubt is true and from the circumstances of the case the worst of it has not been seen yet there are thousands who have gone there this season from the states without means and in consequence of the scarcity of money and the stagnation in business which in such countries always follows they cannot obtain employment and they may literally have a famine there in the midst of plenty 2 |
