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Show 156 NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. .wANTED-A ~irl for Stockton; wages, $35. Also, a Girl for Oro-ville, to tend a child; wages, $20. Also, a Woman Cook; wages, $40. WANTED-A Tin man; wages, $3 per day. WANTED-A Barber for. a country town; wages, $75 per month. WANTED-Two Girls for one family in the city· wages $30 per month each. A small Girl to run of errands; wages,' $15. ' WANTED-Two Men for splitting and curinO' Salmon· wages $50 and passage-; for up the coast. 5 ' ' WANTED-Three Wood Choppers, to chop wood near Martinez. wages $40 and board. ' WANTED-.A __g ood Carriage Painter; wages $3 per day steady em-ploy. A Smith .Helper; $35. ' . ' WANTED-A No.1 Laundress; wages, $50 per month. WANTED-Ten Men to go to Puget Sound to work at Lumbering. WANTED-A. Man to work in a wood yard· wages $35. A good Wood Chopper; wages, $50. ' WANTED-A Girl for a private family in the country· waO'es $40 A Girl for Stockton; wages, $35. , ' o ' · WANTED-Two No. 1 Cooks; wages, $60 per month. Also, two No. 1 Waiters; wages, $50. WANTED-A Man and Wife for a Dairy; wages, $75 per month. Now when it is known that similar· advertisements to these, appear in every day's issue of some of the most reliable and widely circulated newspapers ~n the State, and still the demand for labor unsupplied, who will hesitate in believing that the chances for the laborer, the young man or woman, and even small girls, are far better even no,v, than in most other parts of the world; and would these wages be offered . unless there was a positive demand for labor? SHALL I BRING CAPITAL? Certainly, for you can either lose it here quicker than you ever saw money lost before, or you can make more from the use of it, just as you happen to strike the APPENDIX. . 157 ' chances. . You can loan any amount you please upon " good security," (?) at from five to ten per cent. per month, and when you want your money back again, the chances are that your good security has stepped out, and very likely the borrower along with it. There are those in almost every city, town and village in the State, who have money to loan ; and if they, with their knowledge of California laws and Californians, and land titles, cannot do it safely, you will hardly be likely to ; but nevertheless bring on your money ; you can invest it in countless speculations, from city lots to canary birds, and as we have said in effect, lose it so quick it will make your head swim ; or you may make a fortune by it, depending entirely upon which way the wheel turns. California is the great play-ground of fortune. It is here, above all other places, that she wantonly sports with her votaries, and numbers her victims by thousands. Still, if you have money, bring it with you, for it can be used, and used safely, in a variety of enterprises, almost any of which 'viii pay you from two to three per cent. a month. Mining ditches, mining, in a variety of ways, lumbering, stock raising, agriculture, horticulture, indeed almost any legitimate business, if properly managed. But as a sure and permanent business, we know of no enterprise in which a man of capital can engage in, that promises a more sure return, or larger per cent., than quartz mining. Now we have no quartz vein that we wish to sell, so that our opinion is not based upon |