THE TRUTH ABOUT CALIFORNIA 



product, its consumption will be enormously increased. 

 This will be true, because in its new form the olive is as 

 nutritious as it is palatable, and the people will learn to 

 depend upon it as an article of diet. In the production 

 of deciduous fruits, such as peaches, apricots, cherries, 

 and nectarines, California has much competition, and is 

 to have much more in the future. There are irrigated 

 valleys throughout the Pacific Northwest, the inter- 

 mountain region, and the now undeveloped Southwest, 

 which are beginning to produce marvellous fruits of this 

 kind. The same is true of olives, almonds, and walnuts 

 in a much more restricted way. The California wine in- 

 dustry is promising to-day, and the culture of grapes for 

 this purpose profitable. Planters who depend for their 

 entire income upon the cultivation of these export crops 

 will necessarily suffer all the evils of speculative farm- 

 ing, but those who have founded their industry upon the 

 plan of self-sufficiency will always have a surplus income 

 from this third source, and in years of high prices it will 

 be large. It is thus that the agricultural basis of Cali- 

 fornia will be indefinitely broadened in order to sustain 

 future millions. 



Upon this foundation manufactures, mining, and an 

 enlarged commerce will rest. The first cannot be long 

 delayed. California will not permanently endure the 

 enormous waste involved in shipping its wool and hides 

 across the continent to Eastern mills, tanneries, and 

 workshops, and in shipping back again the manufactured 

 cloth and shoes. The factories must inevitably grow up 

 near the raw material and the consumers. Expediency 

 and the economy of nature alike demand it. This im- 

 portant part of California's civilization remains almost 



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