Show r A VJ2STEUX EMPIRE California Vast Domain anti Equally A nst IndustrIal Outlook California occupies on the Pacific slope a strip about two hundred miles wide and extends In latitude from the southern line of South Carolina to the southern line of Massachusetts To makc unpUB area from the Atlantic States requires Connecticut Rhode Island I Isl-and New Jersey Delaware Maryland VlrgInia North and South Carolina and about forty thousand square miles from New York and inLaid in-Laid off on the western side of tho river In the Mississippi valley It cuts off a small strip from Louisiana and takes In Arkansas Missouri and Iowa Jn the great Snn Joaquin Valley could be placed New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island Isl-and and onohnlf of Maine t The State Is traversed almost Its entire en-tire length by two mountain chains the Sierra and tho Coast Range but while thesi ranges contain considerable land not suitable for homemaking they also give great natural parks like the Yosemite Valley containing the grandest grand-est scenery in tho world furnish an abundance of excellent timber nnd serve as great rain condensers storing up In deep canyons the needed water to make the valleys blossom like the rose roseYear Year by year the rancher has crept higher and higher up the mountains first to the foothills and later on In irmny cases to ttyc very mountain tops finding genial climate and a fertile soil that makes these elevations nearly as desirable for homes as arc the valleys The unlands on the Coast Ramie especially on the western slope cooled during the summer hy the ocean breezes and bathed In Its fogs make excellent grazing land and there as well as upon the high meadown of the Sierras Is found n typically good dairy country where giltedged butter can be made every day In the year In those localities I where the elevation eleva-tion does not exceed 4000 feet lies tho real appleproducing part of California the fruit exceeding in size and equaling In flavor the choicest of the worlds markets Rapid as has been the tide of Immigration Immi-gration during the past ten years there Is yet productive land enough left to furnish homes for a million people nnd In no place In the world can an Industrious Indus-trious thrifty man with a small capital to begin with find a better place In which to cast his lot A variety of California literature at Iractlvely Illustrated describing Its resources re-sources famous resorts and numerous wonders also maps and foldcra showing routes through trains and other valuable valua-ble Information may be obtained by addressing D R Gray General Agent Southern Pacific Co 201 Main St Suit Lake City |