92 RURAL CALIFORNIA 



Greater than any contribution which agriculture in 

 California has ever received from mining and more 

 profound in its influence on the development of satis- 

 fied citizenship and industrial permanence in the 

 commonwealth was the quickly discerned opportunity 

 in agriculture, which has already been suggested. It 

 amounted to nothing less than a change in the point 

 of view and complete transformation of purpose 

 among the argonauts. These eager adventurers came 

 with the determination "to make their pile and go 

 back home." They nearly all hoped it would be very- 

 soon when such competence would be attained. They 

 declared they had "no use for the country except to 

 get the gold out of it." Of course such a purpose 

 and ambition or the methods that many employed to 

 achieve them would never have made a prosperous 

 and permanent state nor have ministered to the 

 attainment of high ideals of manhood and citizen- 

 ship. It was the discernment of the opportunities 

 in agriculture and the desirability of becoming a 

 part of a durable industrial and home-making popu- 

 lation in a country affording new advantages in profit- 

 able work and enterprise and exceptional delights in 

 living, which so quickly transformed a dream of 

 adventure into a resolution toward permanent devel- 

 opment. 



"Our climate and soil will not only produce all the 

 cereals, grasses, vegetables of mammoth growth and 

 superior quality, all the northern fruits to perfection 

 but the most delicate fruits, trees and shrubs of the 

 tropics. Our even, healthy and delicious climate is 



