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San Joaquin Valley 



California 



will make you independent. 



The ambitious man or woman who wishes a home, 

 friends, a comfortable living, and money in the banks 

 to insure against future want, will find in the San 

 Joaquin Valley what he is looking for 



Here are 10,000,000 fertile acres, with an abund- 

 ance of water for irrigation coming from the ever 

 present snows of the High Sierras. The clear, warm 

 California sunshine compels a sturdy, healthy plant 

 growth. Every staple crop is profitable 

 here. Nature is on your side. All that you need is 

 reasonable industry and success is certain. 



The man of small capital can get quick returns 

 from vegetables, alfalfa, hogs, dairying and poultry. 

 A few acres intelligently handled will support a 

 family while the orchard and vineyard is coming into 

 bearing. 



If it were possible for you to meet and talk with 

 the hundreds of men who came to the valley with 

 little and who now are prospering, as I have done, 

 you would be as enthusiastic as I am over the future 

 of the country 



Let me send you a 72-page book, telling in plain 

 language what others are doing and have done. For 

 instance, it tells of Mr. S. W. Williams, Tulare, Cal., 

 who last year sold $3,000 worth of milk from 

 30 cows; of Mr. C. S. Baxter, Merced, Cal., who 

 sold $7,200 worth of milk from 60 cows and 

 got $1,200 for his surplus alfalfa. 



You can go to California this fall for only $33 

 from Chicago, $32 from St. Louis, $25 from 

 Missouri River, if you start any day, August 25 to 

 September 9 or October 1 to 15. Tickets honored 

 in Santa Fe Tourist sleepers on payment of berth 

 If you ask for it, I also will send you our 

 journal, The Earth, free for six months. 



Chas. L. Seagraves, Gen. Colonization Agent, A. T. & S. F. Ry. System, 1110. Railway Exchange, Chicago, I1L 



Alfalfa $50 acre 

 Oranges $300aore 

 Peaches $150 acre 



Grapes $100 acre 



Vegetables $250 acre 

 Dairy $100acre 



Fis $125 acre 



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