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Show wr (Editor's Note: This is another in the "Stories of the States' series.) 3 By ED EMERINE WNU Features. The aura of California sometimes may fade, but it never dies. The subtle influence of El Dorado today is not as vague as the imagined golden treasures of long ago. California is the fable-illumined land of America where dreams come true. The treasure of good living in a healthful land where there is opportunity beckons strongly today just as the discovery of gold at Sutter's sawmill in 1848 beckoned. There is a promise of new life, of a kinder providence, in the sight of citrus groves against a background of snowy S ! i I' : ; - - i ! ' ' ' w ' s 'H ' -', ' r ti - - ; nia. The state produces limes, tangerines, tan-gerines, citrons, figs, olives, avocados, avoca-dos, pomegranates, dates and other fruit. California is the only state producing lemons in commercial quantities. Pears, apples, peaches, plums, prun.es, cherries, grapes and small fruits and berries are grown widely in the state. The sensational sensation-al achievements of California's great wizard, Luther Burbank, are well known. California was the first state to grow sugar beets. It is a leader in truck and vegetable growing and produces enormous quantities oi Persian and English walnuts, almonds, al-monds, pecans and other nuts. El Dorado is still California. It is a young state, eager to stretch its muscles and do bigger big-ger things. "How many Cali-fornians Cali-fornians will there be in 1950?" is asked. Los Angeles county expects to have 3,371,000. The San Francisco Bay area expects to have 2,000,000. The state expects ex-pects a total of 9,000,000 people peo-ple to be fed, housed and employed em-ployed In 1950. The answer? Factories and new industries! Almost every California town has ample electric power and other utilities utili-ties and a vacant space to put a factory. Santa Clara, San Bernardino, Bernardi-no, Pomona, Riverside, Gridley, Oroville, Lodi and dozens of other California towns are looking for footloose foot-loose factories that can be located where there are raw materials on the spot. New Developments Noted. And if factories won't (io all the job, what about the new developments develop-ments in the great Central valley? A new irrigation, flood control and power project there includes Shasta dam on . Sacramento river, Friant dam on San Joaquin river and numerous nu-merous irrigation canals. Nine miles downstream from Shasta, Kenwick dam is being constructed to create an afterbay reservoir for the Shasta power plant and generate additional power itself. This development devel-opment will take care of thousands more people from Redding to Bak-ersfield, Bak-ersfield, including the San Francisco Bay area. peaks. There is somehow a rebirth of faith in oil wells spouting black gold, in ships going to the Orient through the Golden Gate, in airplanes air-planes and factories, and in desert land made to bloom. The yearning for El Dorado, now known as "California fever," 'has affected many men of many nations. California is not one state, one climate, cli-mate, one altitude, one picture, or one people. It is the second largest state In the nation. It is scorched and parched desert and cool Lake Tahoe in the mountains. It is Mt. Whitney, 14,522 feet above sea level the highest peak in the United States and Death Valley, 200 feet below sea level, both in the same county. It is bathing beauties and movie stars as well as cattle ranches and dairy farms. Fine lands of sweeping, ocean beaches, 'ough and rocky mesas, subtropical ireas, frozen Sierra peaks all are California. California may mean farming, farm-ing, mining, cattle raising, trapping, trap-ping, shipping, fruit growing, movie making, lumbering, manufacturing, man-ufacturing, fishing, hunting or a hundred other occupations. It may be the lonely life of herding herd-ing sheep or the gay rounds of night clubs, society, yachts,' race tracks. Or It may mean Chinatown, Palm Springs, Hollywood, Holly-wood, big redwood trees or sagebrush! The average Californian, whether he is a native or an adopted son, may boast with justification that his state has the tallest- trees, the highest mountains, the fastest-growing population and the most promising prom-ising future of all the states. And these aggressive Californians really real-ly mean it State of Progress. Their energy has built aqueducts from the mountains to make great agricultural areas out of deserts. They have strung power lines from mighty dams to bring energy to cities and factories, dredged great harbors from mud flats and flung the world's biggest bridges across a bay. They have, developed cotton plantations below sea level and drilled slopes for oil and gas. Irrigation Irri-gation ditches have turned waste lands into grain fields and pastures, truck gardens and orchards. The forbidding areas of a century ago are green and fertile, with comfortable comfort-able homes where families dwell Gold was the first natural resource re-source to be exploited in California, the discovery turning a Spanish pastoral pas-toral country into a Yankee land. And the Yankees haven't stopped NATIVE SON ... Gov. Earl Warren War-ren of California is among the I state's few native sons. He was born in Los Angeles in 1891. His ' law practice in San Francisco and Oakland was interrupted for service in World War I. Engaged in politics poli-tics since 1919, he served as Alameda Ala-meda county district attorney for many years. In 1938 he was elected attorney general and in 1942 was elected governor, a post to which he was reelected in 1946. hunting for treasure minerals, timber, tim-ber, gas, petroleum, silver, copper, lead, zinc, platinum, tungsten, mag-nesite, mag-nesite, potash, stone, soda, cement and the soil itself. They harnessed the water power and put it to work. They turned to manufacturing and shipping, and dared to start new ventures ven-tures such as the moving picture industry. California fired their imaginations, and gave them scenery scen-ery and a wonderful climate as well. No Gamble in Farming. California has been unlike any other state in development and sequence se-quence of agriculture. The first industry in-dustry was cattle, derived from herds driven from Mexico by Viceroy Galvez in 1769 for the Mission estab-'lishments. estab-'lishments. Crops were planted, but there was the annual gamble with drouth. Since 1885, California's farms have grown smaller in size, and irrigation has become widespread. wide-spread. Farming is no gamble now! In 1873 two seedless orange trees from Brazil were sent to Riverside, and from these two has sprung the modern orange industry of Califor- Although the motion picture industry in-dustry was born on the east coast, the movie capital of the world today revolves around Hollywood and its environs Culver City, Universal City and Burbank. The atmosphere there is so clear that pictures can be taken on about 350 days of the year, while topography and flora afford varied "locations." Perhaps California has been praised too lavishly, cursed too loudly, loud-ly, loved too greatly and hated beyond be-yond all reason. Not many misfits, or modern adventurers, will find California all it is advertised to be. But the strong, the sensible, the industrious, the substantial ones may find in California a greater selection se-lection of vocations, interests and opportunities than they have ever known before. Remember, they do the impossible impossi-ble right along in California! v - - . - . ;v Zv...-'. .....Jt 2L ..wia ' .. .-....v-i,.tl, ' i ? v V- ' ;t ' : Winter converts Lassen park into a veritable fairyland. t.i..arJu, AiUmum v mI |