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since the discovery of gold at Coloma; also, Placer and El Dorado 

 are leading as fruit growing counties. Our mountain ranges are 

 filled with stock, with a dairy product of some two hundred and 

 fifty tons annually; cattle, horses, sheep, and goats, find on our river 

 banks, in our canons, mountain valleys, and sunny slopes, grasses of 

 extraordinary succulence. The most luxuriant vegetation abounds 

 adjacent to our richest mines; the noise of the quartz mill mingle 

 with the sound of the hoe and scythe; timber of rare quality and 

 in wonderful abundance covers the surface east of the arable range; 

 marble, iron, and copper, also abound. AVhere can such another 

 combination of riches be found? Nowhere else. Each succeeding 

 day brings the tidings of new finds of fabulous value of ancient river 

 beds just discovered, whose bottom rock shines yellow of porphyry 

 and seam diggings, till then never known, where gold lies in huge 

 pockets. Of lands preempted, vineyards planted, and orchards set. 

 Our farmers prosper, mine owners prosper, and the day laborer 

 receives his two dollars and fifty cents to five dollars per day. In 

 this, above all other districts, the transition from the labor to the 

 capital class is made easy and most probable. Again I greet you on 

 this our tenth anniversary, and may prosperity and happiness con- 

 tinue. 



