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business, making it a holiday, and everybody has a general day of 

 enjoyment. 



But I will not detain you much longer. It is ever a pleasure — yes, 

 my very nature impels me to sing the praise of our favored locality. 

 We liave a climate which is as perfect as can be found on earth, 

 imparting health and buoyant spirits. To feel full of energy and full 

 of life to accomplish ends with ease is common to us all. We have a 

 generous soil, yielding abundance, with scarcely a failure whenever 

 a call is made upon it. We have an ocean at our doors which rolls 

 its pacific waves against our coast, which, by its trade winds, tempers 

 the heat of Summer, and it is a highway for vessels that carry our 

 ])roducts to the four corners of the earth. We, too, have railroads, 

 which in a few days carry us to every part of this continent, and they 

 have been the important factor in our prosperity. In fact, it may be 

 stated as a certainty that tliese railroads have more than doubled all 

 values in Los Angeles County in the past five years. Nor is this cre- 

 ated value a fictitious one, for it is based upon income, for these roads 

 have opened up new markets for the sale of our products, giving us 

 enhanced prices by carrying wheat, wine, wool, and other products to 

 every part of our land and to Europe, and bringing back in their 

 return necessaries or luxuries at reduced prices. 



