level plain, where the air is laden with the sweet perfume of orange- 

 blossoms and semitropic fruits and flowers, — a beautiful city in a beautiful 

 location, where the ocean breezes cool the heated air of summer and warm 

 the frosted air of winter, where summer is queen the whole year round. 

 It is a clean, well-built city, close to the beaches, close to the mountains, 

 and in the center of the most productive section of southern California. 

 Here is the ideal location for the business man and the home-seeker — 

 business, climate, and recreation. 



Other towns in the county are Anaheim, with a population of 2,500; 

 Fullerton, with a population of 2,000; Orange, with a population of 2,000; 

 besides many smaller places. The county is traversed by both of the 

 great continental railroads, the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe, and the 

 Pacific Electric from Santa Ana to Los Angeles. 



Orange County, bordering on the Pacific Ocean, has an even tem- 

 perature the whole year round, with several prosperous beach resorts con- 

 nected with the inland towns by rail. The cost of living in Orange County 

 is practically the same as in Eastern points. 



Its acres given to agriculture are undoubtedly the richest in the great 

 State of California, the most productive of any in the United States, and 

 unsurpassed in the world. We cite the celebrated celery-fields of Orange 

 County, which are included within an area of four miles square, in which 

 the celery produced nets its growers between half a million and one million 

 dollars annually. And in this same territory the sugar-beet product reaches 

 nearly half a million dollars. 



Shasta County 



F. F. DUSTIN 



WHEN you stop to consider, Shasta County is comparatively an 

 infant. The city of Redding, now one of the most progressive 

 towns of its size in the State, was but a short time ago a swad- 

 dling infant of some few hundred people and no substantial 

 homes. 

 Like many other new communities, outside capital saw its opportunity 

 and came to assist a child of the greatest mother in the land, our State 

 of California, with the nursing-bottle of moneyed investments. With what 

 result? After a lingering growth of a few years, it waxed fat and healthy 

 on the new nourishment, and last year we saw a steady influx of new 

 capital that not only put new life into our county, but clothed us in new 

 raiment such as modern buildings in the principal towns and new struc- 

 tures across our magnificent waterways. New highways were commenced, 

 and from that time on we have maintained that steady influx of people 

 seen only in the more substantial communities. 



Are we not the largest producer of mineral in the State? Have we not 

 some of the most fertile lands in the State? Are not our grapes far superior 

 to any raised anywhere in the world? We say "world" advisedly, as the 

 records at Washington show the Shasta grape has more per cent of sugar 

 than even the greatest producer in Spain. We produce the finest wines, 

 and a^e alone will demonstrate our claims. 



Did not we, in the hurried space of two weeks, on an out-of-season 

 market, make a display at the State Fair of 1905 that brought us the 

 second cash prize for the best county exhibit on the floor? 



Our generators of electricity are forging ahead as never before. Do 

 you realize that we are supplying the Sacramento Valley with the modern 

 motive power? Have you absorbed the fact that we have under way 

 enough generative power, and base of supply sufficient, to move all the 



