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Adventures in Scenery 



Courtesy Ed. D. Coates 

 FIG. 4. Date palms at Long Beach, among the most beautiful in the world. 



petroleum or rock-oil the State ranks second among all the 

 states. Fish and game, both from a commercial and the sports- 

 man's standpoint, abound, both in the sea off her coasts and in 

 streams of mountain torrents and rivers, and in the wild and 

 untrammeled fastnesses of forest-clad slopes, in jungles of wild 

 plants, and in impassable rocky gorges and mountain slopes. 



Wild flowers of most fascinating beauty, desert palms, cacti, 

 and foot-hills covered with chaparral, invite the nature lover. 



