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Show what thcy'osgkt to raise on their' farms. Ihithcr they should see that under this afSiction there will be increased demand for what they can produce. It was in just the right time of year for them to put out all kinds of grains and vegetables They should make the butter, they should produce the eggs and bacon and the hams and the salt pork that San Francisco will need Jn. increasing quantities as the city takes on its old form, and while great expenditures expendi-tures are to be made to rebuild the city there ought to be. a combined effort to .cover the Sacramento valley and the San Joaquin valley with irrigation ditches, that those two valleys may be to California what the Nile was to Egypt in the old days. There is enough land which, brought under careful culti- vation in those two valleys, would not only be enough for all the cities of. the State, but there would be thousands and tens of thousands of tons of food for export. i In building the city' an effort should also be made to likewise build the State and make it com-- pite. : : , ; . 'V r" It was right for all the surrounding States to send bread to San Francisco. At the same time it ought not to have been necessary, for there ought to have been flour enough in those two valleys to make bread to feed the world. California is nothing noth-ing now to what it will be when all its resources are put to active work. - BE SELF-SUPPORTING. When the Civil war closed the people of the ' Southern States were utterly stranded. They had 1 nothing, not even the means to do anything with, but what they lacked in material they made up in - ' courage. . They went to work to make the South ! self-sustaining and they came very nearly doing it. This calamity in San Francisco ought to have the same effect on the farmers in California. They i cjht no longer to depend on San. Francisco for |