California’s Woolen Mills

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 8, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 10.

California’s Woolen Mills

To show the unwisdom of the commercial wise men, take the following from the annual address of Mr. Henry L. Davis, president of the Board of Manufacturers and Employers of California:—

“California is the second wool-producing State in the Union and lies right at the door of Australia, from whence all the mixing wools come, yet the woolen mills of California are struggling hard to live, and much of the product of these mills is sent to New York, stamped with the name of an Eastern manufacturer, and then sold back here in California against an advance of twenty per cent. Could anything be more absurd than this?”