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with cxhaustless herds of gamboling stock, or festooned with vigorous 

 gra])e-bcaiMng vines; the orchards are bending with luscious fruits; the 

 gardens are plethoric of vegetables, and berries, and autumn flowers, 

 and everywhere is seen the placid, sweet smile of mother earth, and the 

 hearty, ins))iring promises of the toihvorn farmer. Again, say we, God. 

 bless and protect the farmers of our country ! To them give we present 

 praise. To them will we extend congratulatione and acknowledgments 

 when our State, and Oregon, and Washington, and Nevada, and Utah, 

 have been thoroughly vivified and arterialized with railroads. To them 

 will we give congratulations and praise when the snort of the same iron 

 horse is heard in the streets of San Francisco, the Capital of the State, 

 through the valle3^s of California, on the wild summits of the Sierras, 

 across the arid plains, at Great Salt Lake, at Denver, Fort Leavenworth, 

 St. Louis, Boston, and New York. 



