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We are no longer remote in a commercial aspect from the great centers 

 of commercial activity. 



Economic methods of communication have conferred upon us the 

 equivalent of physical contiguity with the rest of the world. 



More intelligent methods of agriculture, improved conditions of the 

 labor market, combined with the constant decrease in the cost of trans- 

 portation, afford assurances of the permanency of all our industries. 



Our State has a territorial area of 157,000 square miles, comprising an 

 arable area of 35,000,000 of acres, capable of supporting ten times the 

 population now in occupancy. We have a climate which admits of the 

 economies of production as relates to every industry, and confers upon 

 us the broadest diversity of production and the largest future possibili- 

 ties. We have large areas of land under the conditions of primitive 

 development acs to values. 



These facts constitute in themselves a strong invitation to the home 

 seekers among our countrymen. 



The love of Californians for their State, which is proverbial throughout 

 the world, has ample justification. Where else on the earth is there more 

 inspiring cause for love for one's country ? In what other country is 

 there broader freedom of thought and action ? In what other country 

 are the alluring prophesies, which attend the hopes of young life, more 

 certain of fulfillment, or in what other country do greater blessings of 

 peace and plenty minister to the comforts of age ? In what other country 

 is honest industry more respected, or does labor earn a higher meed of 

 profit and honor? Under our summer suns the fruits of the tropics 

 ripen without the torrid rigors of the equator. Here the russet brown of 

 our summer hills and the golden stubble of the after harvest are the only 

 winter we know. Here the verdure of spring ushers in the autumn, and 

 the autumn brings no forewarning of the bleak discomforts of winter. 

 Here winter is the season when the warm brown earth is turned by the 

 plow for the seed time, and spring, with its flowers and ripening grain, 

 is opulent with the fruition of hopeful industry. Nor are these all the 

 attributes which challenge our love. Here nature has wrought its best 

 enchantment in the sublimity of mountain heights, the bold grandeur 

 of cliffs, the pensive peacefuluess of lovely valleys and the expansive 

 splendor of fertile plains. 



Looking backward, we see a history founded in the romance of adven- 

 ture. In the present, we are laying the foundations of a noble common- 

 wealth by the establishment of permanent industries. If patriotic devo- 

 tion attends upon our love, and high endeavor is the inspiration of our 

 pride, they will ripen for our beloved State its growing harvest of hope. 



