Show california FOR HOMES Z the best of soil climate society and schools california offers more attractions to ono one seeking a place for a comfortable home than any other place on the globe its extensive arla area 9 gives ives it an almost unlimited variety of clif climate flate save that it has nowhere the intense cold of the eastern winter nor the cyclonic disturbances of the middle west its soil is as diversified as its climate between the loose friable wash of the sierra valleys and foothills and the black rich adobe of some of the interior valleys there may be found soils of almost any consistency all fertile and waiting only to be tickled ic kled with the hoe to respond with an abundant crop thousand of acres of excellent land nestled in charming valleys and running far up on the foothills with water to be had in abundance for the developing lie waiting the hand of industry to convert them into productive and pleasant homes A half dozen families selecting some one of these valleys could in three years convert 1 it into a veritable paradise and from the beginning the little colony could be entirely corn com fordable for table and almost self sustaining such lands can be bought at a low price and if desired on long credits while improvements prove ments are being made the additional value conferred upon the land by its improvement will be materially enhanced enhance a by the natural accretion of value always going on in a now new and growing country nor will such a place remain long isolated and without the accommodations of older settlements the school law of the state is wisely framed to provide for new settlements new school districts are easily formed and the smallest of these has public money enough to insure a good school for the greater part of the year it is often thought that a man must be already wealthy to secure a comfortable california home home this is not the case A few hundred dollars to begin with backed by industrious and frugal habits will in an incredibly short space of time build up a home with all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life these lands are already in the market and are gradually being purchased and it needs only that the leading facts shall be generally known to secure an immediate and rapid addition to the homemaking population of the state for descriptive and illustrative literature call on or address D R gray general agent southern pacific company main salt lake city utah |