Show california FOR HOMES the best of soil climate society and schools california offers more attractions to one seeking a place for a comfortable home than any other place on the globe its extensive area gives it an almost unlimited variety of climate 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 granite wash of the sierra valleys and foothills and the black rich adobe of some of the interior val leys there may be found soils of almost any consistency all fertile and waiting only to be tickled with the hoe to respond with an abundant crop thousands of acres of excellent land nestled in charming valleys and running far upon 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 it into a veritable paradise and from the beginning the little colony could be entirely comfortable 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 ift improvement will be materially enhanced by the natural accretion of value always going on in a new and growing country nor will such a place remain long isolated and without the accommodations of older settlements the school la law w of the state is wisely framed to provide for new settlements new school districts are easily formed and the smallest of these has public mon money C y enough to insure a good school 10 for I 1 r the greater part of the year it is often thought that a man must be already wealthy to secure a comfortable california 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 buile 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 citara ture call on or address D R gray general gf agent southern pacific company main street salt like lake city utah |