CALIFORNIA AND WESTERING SUN 317 



States and enough left over to satisfy all the real 

 estate promoters. At this moment I see in the 

 near distance the little mountainette " Tamalpais." 

 If you climb it you think it is a knee-tester but if 

 you ascend by the " crookedest railroad in the 

 world" you get more thrills out of this double-up- 

 and-turn-a round track and the double-headed dinky 

 engine than you do out of the view at the top. 



Many of these mountains in California are 

 richly stored with precious and mechanically use- 

 ful metals but the forces of Nature have hidden 

 them so cunningly that it usually takes two dol- 

 lars worth of labor to discover one dollar's worth 

 of metal. Now and then you may stumble on a 

 rich " pocket " and then the cash flows to the mint; 

 but you may have to be grub-staked a good many 

 times before you strike it rich. 



In attempting to describe the population of Cali- 

 fornia I meet the same difficulty that I have al- 

 ready noted: there are so many kinds of people 

 that it is all but impossible to give a clear picture 

 which the stranger may comprehend and identify. 

 However, everybody comes to California or is 

 going to come, so I need only mention the classes 

 that strike me as being different from those 

 familiar to me in the East. California is a land 



