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Camphor Wood Articles not such as Trunks - Writing Desks - Sofa beds - Book cases - to have been manufactured here for the Californian market to a large extent - and the cabinet makers are, as a class, industrious.

Out granite. I think it likely that a large trade in wrought granite, such as door and window cheeks - lintels - monumental Coping will spring up between this Stone cutting and California.

... is cheaper here than in any Country trading with the West - the voyage is shorter - and all the smaller scantlings can be taken freight free as ballast.

From the sandy nature of California, and the fact that all these new cities in the gold Region, the country itself, supplies neither limestone nor granite, these materials must be imported; and there is no quarter from which they can be laid down cheaply as from this. If the Californians can afford to import bricks from Liverpool and New York by way of Cape Horn - a six months voyage (as they are doing at this moment), they can afford to buy wrought granite from us which can be laid down at their doors in six weeks.

A demand of this nature would draw a great deal of labor into the Colony, and here, however humble, if he can find honest Employment, is a boon to us. Every fresh settler who comes hardly looks for a large dem... during the first few years, and for a time nothing but temporary erections will be thought of, but the day will come when more substantial edifices will be required; and it will be fast if it should turn out so, that the new cities of the El Dorado have been partly built out of the hills of...

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Camphor Wood Articles not such as Trunks - Writing Desks - Sofa beds - Book cases - to have been manufactured here for the Californian market to a large extent - and the cabinet makers are, as a class, industrious. Out granite. I think it likely that a large trade in wrought granite, such as door and window cheeks - lintels - monumental Coping will spring up between this Stone cutting and California. ... is cheaper here than in any Country trading with the West - the voyage is shorter - and all the smaller scantlings can be taken freight free as ballast. From the sandy nature of California, and the fact that all these new cities in the gold Region, the country itself, supplies neither limestone nor granite, these materials must be imported; and there is no quarter from which they can be laid down cheaply as from this. If the Californians can afford to import bricks from Liverpool and New York by way of Cape Horn - a six months voyage (as they are doing at this moment), they can afford to buy wrought granite from us which can be laid down at their doors in six weeks. A demand of this nature would draw a great deal of labor into the Colony, and here, however humble, if he can find honest Employment, is a boon to us. Every fresh settler who comes hardly looks for a large dem... during the first few years, and for a time nothing but temporary erections will be thought of, but the day will come when more substantial edifices will be required; and it will be fast if it should turn out so, that the new cities of the El Dorado have been partly built out of the hills of... Silk Piece Goods Considering that Page ... The provided text has been proofread according to the given instructions. I have corrected spelling errors, fixed spacing issues, rejoined broken sentences, and restored paragraph breaks while maintaining the original content and not inventing new information. The text is formatted in HTML using `` tags for paragraphs.
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