424 CONDITIONS AFFECTING AGRICULTURAL PROSPERITY. 



roads; and they, like all other branches of industry, will have 

 to work for the same that others do, or suspend operations.&quot; 



CHAPTER XXX. 



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EXCEPTIONAL CONDITIONS OF THE PACIFIC COAST AFFECTING AGRI 

 CULTURAL PROSPERITY. 



SUMMARY OF ADVANTAGES: OF DISADVANTAGES W&T AND DRY SEASONS VARIA 

 BILITY OF THE AVERAGE IRREGULARITY IN EACH YEAR TABULAR STATEMENT 

 OF EXTREMES OF RAIN-FALL SEASONS OF DROUGHT AMOUNT OF RAIN NEEDED 

 TO SECURE A CROP AMOUNT ACTUALLY DETERMINED FENCES AND FUEL 

 FORESTS AND THE RAIN-FALL FORESTS AND INLAND NAVIGATION. 



PATRONS of Husbandry from the older States will naturally 

 seek for reliable information within the Order with regard to 

 the advantages which the Pacific Coast offers to immigration. 

 &quot;We shall endeavor to state these with fairness, believing that 

 the presentation of the shady side will yet leave, in the vast 

 area of unoccupied land, in the salubrity of our climate, the 

 range of our productions, and the variety of industries which 

 must necessarily spring from these, conditions of prosperity 

 unequaled on the face of the earth. The early settlers were 

 wont to call this &quot;God s country;&quot; we believe it is most em 

 phatically and peculiarly &quot; man s country,&quot; the chosen field of 

 his highest endeavors and accomplishments. 



Of the 40,000,000 of acres of tillable land in California alone, 

 there is probably 18,000,000 which can be obtained at a moder 

 ate cost and upon favorable terms. Under the Homestead Act 

 the same facilities exist as eastward ; but here the farmer is not 

 obliged to house his stock, to build barns, or, in most cases, 

 to clear his land. A chain of valleys, where wheat can be 

 grown without irrigation, extends from Los Angeles northward 

 to the Eussian river, with a great number of smaller tribu 

 tary valleys or offshoots, remarkably adapted to the purposes 

 of diversified farming and stock growing. There are almost as 

 many climates as townships. Directly upon the coast, in the 

 latitude of San Francisco, neither the grape nor semi-tropical 

 fruits will flourish in the open air; yet three miles from Mar 

 tinez, in the Alharnbra vineyards, every desirable variety of the 

 grape, cherry, peach, almond; the orange, lemon and pome- 



