Common sense applied to the immigrant question; showing why the "California Immigrant Union" was founded and what it expects to do - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...and almost impossibility of setting so many out in life with any comfort in an old country (where everything is full to overflowing) without either very large capital or very great interest. I resolved, therefore, to try to start them in a new country, and as my object was to buy land, believing that they were too inexperienced to be left to do this by themselves with the hope of a satisfactory result, I determined to attempt it myself. During the two last years I have therefore been in many parts of Australia, in New Zealand, both North and Middle Islands, and in Tasmania. From many causes, which I need not here particularise, I was not at all satisfied to attempt to invest in land in any of those places. I, however, read everything I could meet with, and sought information from every source in my power, with a view to determine what is the most promising land to attempt to settle in, and the result of all this was that I came to California. I have now been here three months, have traveled, for the purpose of informing myself, over 1,000 miles in the State, and am perfectly satisfied that I came to a right conclusion, and that this State is, in very many particulars, infinitely more advantageous to the British emigrant than any of the Australasian Colonies. BRITISH IGNORANCE OF CALIFORNIA. The inference then that I would draw from the above is, that the advantages of this Slate are now not only insufficiently known, but that they are literally not known at all in Great Britain. In fact I may most truthfully state that Nothing is there popularly known about this country, and that the only ideas of it that exist there are some very confused and indistinct notions about its gold fields; that the most erroneous notions prevail as to its condition, the state of...
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