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Show A WESTERN EMPIRE. California's Vest Domain and Equally Vast Industrial Indus-trial Outlook. California occupies on the Pacific slope a stripe about two hundred miles wide, and extends in latitude lat-itude from the southern line of South Carolina to the southern line of Massachusetts. To make up its area from the Atlantic States requires Connecticut, Connecti-cut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Mary-land, Virginia, North and South Carolina and about forty thousand square miles from New York and Pennsylvania. Laid off on the western side of the river In tho . !I. r S fti Mississippi Valley it cuts off a small strip from r ,jflfl Louisiana and takes in Arkansas, Missouri and i jjb'jgfll Iowa. In the great San Joaquin Valley could be liJXufl placed New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, ff ! Connecticut, Rhode Island and one-half of Maine. M Wflfl The State Is traversed almost its entire length -i ml by two mountain chains, the Sierra and the Coast tO' ! Range; but, while these ranges contain consider- ( ! able land not suitable for homemaking, they also V a'flfl give great natural parks, like the Yosemite Valley, ' y" InflH containing the grandest scenery in the world, fur- M'fflH nish an abundance of excellent timber, and serve Sij as great rain condensers, storing up in deep can- !i'lj yons the needed water to make the valleys "bios- k lfl som like the rose." ' jf RSI Year by year tho rancher has crept higher and ' M ! higher up the mountains, first to the foothills, and W BJjH later on in many cases to the very mountain .tops, ftf SjBI finding genial climate and a fertile soil that makes feBi these elevations nearly as desirable for homes as ,ltiHfB are the valleys. t '? The uplands on the Coast Range, especially on fltH the western slope, cooled during the summer by " ! the ocean breezes and bathed in its fogs, make ex- , Jj yn cellent grazing land, and there, as well as upon i j jlfa the high meadows of the Sierras, is found a typi- j f cally good dairy country where "gilt-edged" butter J i'lH can be made every day in the year. jllB In those localities, where the elevation does not a mWA exceed 4000 feet, lies the real apple-producing part ' f'i of California, the fruit exceeding in size and equal- lilr ing in. flavor the choicest of the world's markets. tfr Rapid as has been the tide of immigration dur- lit ! ing the past ten years, there is yet productive land jj m iwEH enough left to furnish homes for a million people, A t S and In no place in the world can an industrious, ' 9 thrifty man with a small capital to begin with find j j a better place in which to cast his lot. . Iff fl k JlHj |