Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1884 — Few Rich Men in California. [ARTICLE]

Few Rich Men in California.

The majority of people in this State are not rich. There was a time when the glamour of wealth seemed to be over all the State. There are not so many rich people in California to day in proportion to the population as there are in each one of the older States of the Union. There is less warrant for costly living or for domestic expenditures on the scale of prospective fortune. Looking to the future, one might inquire what are the prospective sources of wealth ? There are no more great fortunes to be made in ra Iway construction, few or no great fortunes to be made in mining ventures, the stock boards are no longer prominent. Only the slow processes of wealth are left—agriculture, manufactures, and industrial pursuits generally, which are most fitting for a people who are not wealthy, but who have not yet quite forgotten the lives of their fathers and mothers—the domestic economy by means of which large families were well brought up, educated, and set out into the world to make their own way successfully.— San Francisco Bulletin.