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Clara valley. (»nr fathers had to wrest the state from the woods. In Cali- 

 f(^rnia the great problem is how to get water from downstairs to go upward. 

 We are impressed more than we ever dreamed of heing with the vast extent 

 and variety of California in natural features, products, scenery and soil. ■ 

 The great efl'orl and problem of the age is how to secure the greatest results 

 with the smallest expenditure of effort. Nowhere in the world can leisure 

 be reached, honestly, at less expense than in this glorious state. With the 

 3ottIemont of California, there wa.s no longer on the planet a place that could 

 be properly termed "west." The ideal west has gone with the biiHiilo. 

 Here on this coast man completed the circuit of the earth, commenced 

 thousands of years ago. Would he ever go round again ? I do not know ; 

 but I do kniiw that no successful movement was ever made in the other 

 direction. The son of Philip of Macedon tried it in reaching from Greece 

 to India; but it rolled 1> ck again, being against the movement of the sun. 

 The Crusaders tried it; but the movement turned back upon it.self. We 

 liave heard that some are afraid the Chinese will come and take this land. 

 Be of good cheer; the Mongolian can never do it. You may take him, but 

 hell never Uike you. 



The Arabs never pass each other unceremoniously, as we do; when 

 they meet on a dcsirt they stop and salute with many formal salaams. 

 Rich Arab carries with him black and white j)ebbles, and they each, on 

 meeting, exchange reciprocally a black for a white i)ebblc. The black peb- 

 ble is a symbol and pledge of the perpetual ftbliviun of each other's faults, 

 the white of the perpetual remembrance of v:m]\ other's virtues. So we 

 would fiin exchange, each and all of ns, wiih > ou the black and the white 

 pebbles in perpetual remembrance of virtut s and perpetual oblivion of 

 faults. 



President Earle, in ro^jKHisc to calls iVoni the members, aro.se 

 and made a few remarks, in the course of wliicli lie said : 



I am glad to respond to the hearty welcome which has been extended 

 to us, and the many courtesies we have received from the day we entered 

 the gates of California. Every American fruit grower should visit this true 

 Mecca of horticulturists in California. It was to see the wonders of this land 

 that we made this jMlgrimage. and we are glad that we are here. The fruit- 

 growers look longingly toward this jmradi-se where all fruits are grown 

 almost entirely without endeavor. When we travel through your vineyards 

 and orchards and see the thousands of tons of fruit that are shipped beyond 

 the Rockies, and when we bear— as Judge Myrick said— that you are only 

 creeping, as it were, in horticulture, who can but ask in ama/ement, " What 

 are you going to do when you begin to walk? " Do your utmost: the mar- 

 kets of the world are open to you, and there will always be demand for the 

 products of your great industry. We are glad that we came. When we 

 return we will tell of the wonders we have seen, and will send our friends 

 and children here to see the friends who made us so welcome. 



