12 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



Let them be required to gather and publish, in convenient form, not 

 only general facts and statistics relating to the natural resources and 

 advantages of tlie State, such as the temperatures of the climate, the 

 richness and peculiarities of the soil, the annual rainfall, the water- 

 courses and navigation, the distribution and facilities of obtaining 

 and growing timber, etc., but the artificial improvements and advan- 

 tages, such as public roads, post-offices, schools, churches, markets, 

 railroads, etc., showing the general advancement of the evidences of 

 an enlightened civilization. Let them be required to collect also 

 from each general subdivision of the State — as, for instance, the Sac- 

 ramento Valley, the San Joaquin Valley, the coast counties, the foot- 

 hill counties, the bay counties, and southern California — the promi- 

 nent and peculiar natural advantages, resources, and capabilities of 

 each locality or section, the adaptabilities and capabilities of the 

 soils and climates for the production of the different kinds of agri-* 

 cultural, horticultural, and vinicultural products, stock raising, etc.; 

 the necessities or non-necessities for irrigation, and the facilities and 

 cost of such irrigation Avhen needed; the routes and modes and cost 

 of travel to such localities from well known points in the State, as 

 San Francisco and Sacramento; the markets of each locality, and the 

 facilities and cost of transportation to and from the same; the extent, 

 location, and description of public lands still subject to entrj^, home- 

 stead, or purchase in each section, under public laws; the location of 

 the public land ofhces for each section, and all other matters and 

 things necessary for strangers entering the State in pursuit of busi- 

 ness and homes to know, in order to save time and expenses, and the 

 liability to be deceived and defrauded by sharps and speculators; 

 the cost of private lands of different kinds and qualities in each sec- 

 tion, and the average product and value thereof of such lands; the 

 cost of lumber and fencing material, and the laws in reference to 

 fencing, and such other matters as will answer all practical and per- 

 tinent questions of practical men desirous of settling in the State, or 

 anj^ particular section thereof. 



An institution charged with the important offices and duties above 

 enumerated, would be greatly assisted in the efficient discharge of 

 those duties, and its services to the State and to its patrons would be 

 greatly enhanced and its ability for the development of the material 

 industries and the direction of labor augmented, if, in addition to 

 these offices and duties, the same institution have charge and man- 

 agement of the general annual exposition of all the material products 

 of the State. 



It would then become possible and practical for those who collect 

 and publish all classes of information in regard to our resources and 

 advantages to present in tangible form each year a public demon- 

 stration of the correctness, reliability, and value of the information 

 so collected and published by them. 



The products from each section of the State should be grouped 

 together in such exposition so as to present the general character- 

 istics, capabilities, and resources of each section in contrast with 

 those of the others, thus to enable the observers and special searchers 

 for information, bearing in mind the facts and statistics of each sec- 

 tion, collected and published as suggested, to determine for them- 

 selves which section they would clioose in which to engage in busi- 

 ness and make homes for themselves and families. 



Every theater, or place of amusement or entertainment, and even 



