THE GAME OF CALIFORNIA 



inhabits the valleys and foothills north of the bay of Monterey, while its 

 sub-species, the I. c. vallicola, finds its home throughout the rest of the 

 State and south into Lower California. The lophortyx gambeli, called 

 Arizona quail in California, and California quail in Arizona, which is really 

 its home, has crossed the Colorado river and spread some distance to the 

 westward along the desert, and in San Bernardino county as far north as 

 the Panamint range. 



It is true that through our lack of foresight in not providing better 

 protection, we have allowed our once bountiful supply of game to become 

 much diminished. Our elk and antelope, once very numerous, have been 

 practically annihilated, and the grizzly monarch of the mountains is nearly 

 extinct. 



But while we can yet boast of a great variety, and even yet a goodly 

 supply, it is not these alone that makes California the peerless paradise of 

 the sportsman. As most game must be hunted in the fall and winter 

 months after the season's young have reached maturity, the genial climate 

 of California plays an all-important part. With us every day is a sports- 

 man's day, on which he can go afield unincumbered with heavy wraps, 

 even into the marshes after waterfowl. If his fancy leads him to that 

 grandest of all wing-shooting, the valley quail, he goes in a light hunting 

 coat, and needs it only to carry his shells and game. He sees snow, it is 

 true, but it glistens from the summits of the distant mountain peaks, just 

 far enough away to give a bracing freshness to the air. Think ye, snow- 

 bound sportsmen of the East, where blizzards rage and the ice-king holds 

 all nature in his frosty grip, of shooting quail in the valleys of California, 

 with a cloudless sky above your head, and under-foot a flowery carpet of 

 huge mosaic patterns wrought in blue and scarlet and purple and gold. 



FROM BIALSTOK. 



The California Promotion Committee has received the following letter 

 from Mr. W. N. Ent, Secretary of the San Luis Obispo County Board of 

 Trade: 



"I am just in receipt of a letter from Bialstok, Russia, in which the 

 writer refers to my little article in the September number of FOR CALI- 

 FORNIA. It may be of interest to you to know how much FOR CALI- 

 FORNIA travels. Yours truly, W. N. ENT, 



"Secretary San Luis Obispo County Board of Trade." 



The following statement occurs among other things on Mr. Ent's 

 letterhead: 



"Nature never made a better climate. Area, two and a quarter million 

 acres, comprising lands of wonderful fertility, insuring heavy and unfailing 

 crops of every product that can be raised in California. Single acres of 

 Luis Obispo County soil have produced without irrigation or fertilizers 

 2 1-2 tons of beans, 20 tons of potatoes, 33 1-3 tons of onions, 60 tons 

 of squash, 70 tons of beets, 100 tons of carrots, 16,000 quarts of straw- 

 berries. The weight of single specimens have been: Apple, 24 ounces; 

 pear, 30 ounces; potato, 10 pounds; radish, 26 1-2 pounds; carrot, 40 

 pounds; table beet, 50 pounds; sugar beet, 56 pounds; mangle wurtzel 

 beet, 156 pounds; cabbage, 93 pounds; squash, 272 pounds. 



In the last three years, we have increased our bank deposits $1,684,- 

 890.35; in the same time our assessment roll has increased $1,366,604, 

 and the assessed value of mortgages has decreased $669,358. Thus we 

 have added to our wealth in three years $3,720,852.35." 



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