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Show but what Is infinitely bettor, the very pick of American manhood and worn- j anhood. They are coming here to ' live to the San Je.aojiin valley to j Stanislaus county. Even now they i are knocking at cur doors. It behooves be-hooves us to welcome them as our I neighbors, help them find suitable homes, where they will be happy, and ' see to It that they have the best facilities facili-ties for educating their children, marketing mar-keting their products, etc., In short, give thorn a square deal. Let us be alive to our responsibilities. Modesto News. oo HOMES IN THE SAN JOAQUIN , VALLEY. 1 Stanislaus county, by reason of Its phenomenal Increase In population, as shown by the recent census returns, has once more set the world a-talklng, and become the center of nationwide Interest It remained for this county, strengthened with its unequaled Irrigation Irri-gation equipment, to enter tho lists for Northern California against Los Angeles county, the fleet-footed, long-winded, long-winded, Iron-muscled, never-defeated champion of the Southland, and now that It Is all over, Los Angeles knows she was In a real race, which called for everv particle of speed and endurance of which she was capable. Modesto's gain In population 130 per cent as chronicled In the columns col-umns Of the News last Friday, was only three points below Los Angeles, whose Increase as shown by the returns, re-turns, was 139 per cent. This should be and Is a source of great pride to the people of this wondrously favored fa-vored community, and will undoubtedly undoubt-edly stir them on to still greater ef-, ef-, forts to bring to the attention of the world the advantages and possibilities possibili-ties of "Sunny Stanislaus" during the ' next ten years. While the growth In the past decade has been phenomenal, occasioned by the opening and development devel-opment of the Modesto and Turlock J irrigation district, yet there is every , reason to beliexe that Stanislaus can J repeat the "feat," and even surpass It during the next ten years. 1 ho two I older Irrigation districts of Stanis-; Stanis-; laus county are by no means over-; over-; crowded as yet.. and Oakdale has just j launched a magnificent district with i unbounded possibilities, while over on I tho west side initial steps have been I taken toward forming what will be tho j largest Irrigation district in the state. Stanislaus county stands on the ! threshold of great things. Over tho , rim of eastern foothills there is rising j the sun of a new day. The San .loa-, .loa-, quin valley is the theater In which tho . great drama or the Twentieth century is to be staged In It the American homcseekcr is to bo the central flg-( flg-( ure. Toward California their faces , ore turned, and there are coming over the mountains a never-ending prejeos-sh.n prejeos-sh.n of the world's best people not the millionaire clsss, altogether, although al-though many of these are included, |
