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has scarcely been completed in all its details, already it has 

 contracts for one million dollars worth of electric energy. 

 It is said that there is nowhere any more livable region 

 than in the foothills of the California mountains. Here 

 can be developed unlimited power without the loss of any 

 natural resource except the oil required to lubricate the 

 machinery. In developing the power, the water in the val- 

 leys will be mobilized. When this is accomplished California 

 will have ten millions of people in place of two and a half 

 millions. The slogan for California should not be one mil- 

 lion persons for this or that city, depending upon which 

 part of the State one is from, but two million families for 

 California. Cover your hills and fill up your valleys with 

 homes, and the cities will take care of themselves. 



A certain rich man who made himself wealthy by mixing 

 a well known California product with a commodity not 

 unknown to any state and selling it as a cure for various 

 ills, purchased a considerable tract of land in a State fa- 

 mous for the Presidents which it has produced and began 

 breeding Percheron horses. This man had the money to buy 

 the best horses of the breed. He was capable of employing 

 the most expert superintendents. The soil and climate were 

 sufficiently like that of "La Perche ' ' to satisfy the require- 

 ments of horse breeding. One day I chanced to meet a 

 groomsman, who declared that the enterprise was doomed 

 to failure. "Why?" he was asked. "Because the Perche- 

 ron horse is the result of loving care by generations of 

 farmers. Mr. Blank, with all his millions, cannot purchase 

 these generations of men without whom these horses are 

 not possible." Our rich friend still operates his land, but 

 he has long since ceased to try to breed horses. 



California has rich river valleys whose conditions are 

 like those which generations of Holland farmers have made 

 famous. Canada has its agents in the lowlands inducing 

 the Holland farmers to migrate to this northern country, 

 while our river valleys with their mild climate remain unde- 

 veloped. To develop this State with the least human sacri- 



