Fruit Fannijig for Profit in California, 1 1 1 



upon one thousand acres of ordinary wheat land in this 

 State. The acquirement, then, by this commonwealth 

 of a great substantial industrial foundation lies plainly 

 in the direction of availing ourselves of the peculiar 

 advantages of our climate. The absence of a cheap 

 coal, that reservoir of mechanical power, forbids the 

 hope of the establishment here of great manufacturing 

 enterprises, with their attendant density of population. 

 In fact, as already shown, the successful establishment 

 of a basis industry will' eventually confer upon us 

 manufacturing facilities and incidental enterprises in 

 every direction, for, wherever a substantial ^industrial 

 basis is established, diversity of profitable occupation 

 arises as an inseparable incident of prosperity. 



Commerce is but an incident of industrial activity. 

 The volume of commercial transactions, as relates to 

 any people, is measured by their purchasing power, and 

 the supreme source of wealth in any community is the 

 productive capacity of its people. Horticulture, pro- 

 secuted under the unrivalled advantages which attend 

 it here, leaves us without a competitor. Upon this 

 substantial and enduring basis the entire industrial 

 structure will eventually rise. 



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