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with their plump full kernels will average 34 and often exceed 

 40. The onions, turnips and beets, the cabbages, cauliflowers and 

 celery, exhibited in this hall, both in size and quality tell their 

 own story of the superior 



CHARACTER OF OUR VEGETABLES, 



while the potato, which fails to grow well in our valleys, is pro- 

 duced of wonderful excellence on the mountain sides and in all 

 the higher altitudes. And then the fruit, what shall T say of 

 that? but that which you all know, that this seems to be the spot 

 specially adapted by the hand of the Creator for its perfection. 

 Whether apples or pears; peaches, apricots or nectarines; plums, 

 cherries or quinces; all here exhibit their finest points of size, 

 color and taste, combining the weight and beauty of those of 

 California with the richest flavor of those of the East. 



All this aside from the gold and the silver; the copper and the 

 lead ; the mica and the marble ; the iron and the coal ; aside from 

 the cattle that cover the plains and the sheep which roam on the 

 hillsides. 



Why do I recapitulate all these things? To give us greater 

 appreciation of our future greatness, and fuller self-satisfaction 

 and self-confidence now? Far from it. I have no right to mis- 

 use this opportunity of addressing so representative and intelli- 

 gent an assembly by giving you merely fair words, which have 

 no value and lead to no result. 



But I have reminded you of these unequalled advantages which 

 a good Providence has bestowed upon us, in order to show the 

 small extent to which we are using them, and the vast field for 

 profitable employment which their proper development presents. 



The plain unvarnished fact is, that with every opportunity of 

 supplying ourselves with all the staple articles and of exporting 

 them to less favored states, we are not doing so; but are actually 

 importing them in vast quantities from without. 



Let us look at the facts. 



Our wheat lands are unsurpassed, and more than amply sufficient 



FOR ALL OF OlfR HOME DEMAND. 



Yet during the last year, the A. T. & S. F. R. R. Co., alone 

 brought into the Territory 409 tons of wheat and 8,897 tons of 

 flour. The A. & P. R. R. added 379 tons of flour making 9276 

 tons. This does not include that brought by the S. P. R. R., 



