Show I l THE GOLDEN STATE In its annual the Chronicle of San Francisco grows glOWS V eloquent over oyer the golden treasures of the golden slate state It tells of it its wealth of quartz quart and of placer ground of the years Jears needed to exhaust their treasures and it is all true And outside her mines Y c California still remains the golden state I I If f- f T Her hIer vanes valleys will yield yield golden harvests longer than I. I f will her hills And in only a few places has hns the thereal thereal real wealth of those valleys been brought forth Half naIf well barYen barren bar bar- become the Sacramento valley has nigh Yen Ten simply because improvident wheat raisers continued continued con con- to raise wheat year rear after year rear on the same soil until the properties in that soil which sustained the stalk on which the wheat grows has been ex ex- h hausted The early race of California farmers were as is a rule a trifling crowd They lived in comfortless homes honks There was not a tree or flower planted near only three months months' work was done in the year Year and md that was careless inferior work On stock ranges lh there re were thousands of roaming cattle but not a aI af I f drop of milk for the children and butter bacon and even vegetables were bought in San Francisco for forN N consumption on the farms 11 We Ye believe the labor question is the greatest problem still in that state No labor labo- was wanted saVe save a a. little at planting and a little at harvest and threshing The he idea of having a genuine farm on oil which grain stock fruit and vegetables should all allbe allbe be grown and where there would he be work for a corPs corps of men nien every day in the year ear seemed never to tobe tobe tobe be thought of r We e suspect it will be twenty years yet before a perfect system of farming and irrigation irrigation tion iron will be established there But all that does not alter lIter the fact that naturally r California is the most mot splendid of states states-au states an empire from which the very highest results should be achieved in all the fields pf of agriculture horticulture and mining |