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Show CALIFORNIA'S FUTURE. It promises More to Laboring Classes Than Any Other Country. It is very difficult for one who has not looked closely at its location and extent to appreciate the peculiar advantages of California. In latitude It extends from the southern line of South Carolina Caro-lina north to the southern line of Massachusetts, qovering on the Pacific slope a corresponding coast line extending inland on an average about two hundred miles. Take the Atlantic coast line Covering the same width, examine it critically, and see what a hive of industry and what an immense population Is covered. Lay a similar area in the same latitude in the Mississippi valley, running from the northern line 6f Louisiana to the northern line of Illinois, and see what an agricultural region it comprises. And yet California has many notable advantages over ither of these tracts. In variety and fertility of soil, in climatic conditions, it stands far in the lead. , It is true that some portions of the State are unfitted for the purposes of home-making, but most of these regions are of the nature of great natural parks breathing places for the multitudes multi-tudes who shall eventually make their homes in this favored State. Nor can it be that many years will elapse before be-fore this inviting field will be occupied. No part of our country offers wider fields for good investments, in-vestments, investments that are entirely safe and that are sure of returning a good profit. 1 Far-seeing men have already secured Interests there, but there are yet many thousands of acres awaiting the "coming man," whose enterprise will bring its rich reward. |