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Show HN lB ' CALIFORNIA. B 111 trS The San FrancIsco Chronicle got out a mag- B I) IB ' nificent New Year Edition, filled with statistics B ! Bj of California's marvelous industries and all B S ' beautifully illustrated. It was a twentieth cen- B j m ' ' tury edition, and the offort was to show that Cal- B j ?i ' ifornia by natural advancement would have at the B j Jm i j close of the present century twenty millions of B j j 'm j people and be able to provide for them. It Is not B i 1 an unreasonable proposition, California has more B J ' $6 than three-fourths the area of either France or B I lij tho German empire. The former has a popula- B ! 5 Hi m tion of about forty millions tne latter fifty-three B i Jb m millions. True, thoy have each been powerful B- IB! H nations for more than a thousand years, but BIS 1 B I steam became man's real servant less than a HI 1 Hi I hundred years ago, and electricity less than sixty ni II Hi years ago; the work of three centuries was crowd- Ifl B$B etl into tno Iast flfty years; this coming century Hn Bl WM perform more work than old Rome accom- B wPB plished in the twelve hundred years of her rise BB a IB and fal1, TlGn' neither France nor Germany pos- Bwff IB scssed have tho elements of natural wealth that Bill!! ill California has. She is a state where nature Blti!!! seems to have assembled all her bounties, one BffilfRvil industry but supplements all the others and then Blanlil hr own mines enable her to strike all balances BKmIB n sold. The one thing that she has always most Bfffafam needed is coal, but since the invention of the BmHB electric motor and the discovery of oil, that want flEr-alffffl lins been eliminated. There is no other such a Kfifflfra state as the Golden State, there never will be HSftJtm I another like her unions when Mexico by natural BBSIm attraction is drawn to us, another state, her HnB'tfl !' equal may bo carved out on the sunny west B&Hiii ill coast of our sister Republic. Hi TB ! |