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point where they debouch into the val
leys, of about one hundred feet to the
mile, by direct line, as the crow flies,
or as an electric wire would run. There
are lying dormant along these noun
tain slopes cheap and easily utilized
forces, sufficient for all the mechanical
power required to operate all the rail-
road trains, all the factories, all the
agricultural appliances to which power
can be applied, all the street car lines
Of our cities, and all the plants for
lighting our streets and houses, and all
this may be done without taking away
any portion of the water needed for
irrigatfng our valley lands-indeed,
these mountains may supply all these
important utilities by harmonious and
complementary systems. Now do not
think this Utopian. Go to Folsom, on
the American River, and see what is
being done there for the City of Sacra-
mento, twenty-five miles away Go to
Antelope Creek in Tehama County. and
see what is being done there for the
town of Red Bluff, ten miles away Go
to Trips Mill on the Mokelumne Riv-
er, and see the plants being completed
by the Blue Lakes Company to trans
nit electrical power to Stockton thirty
miles distant, and to the miners of the
mother lode in Calaveras. Amador and
Tuolumne counties Go to the San Joa-
quin River and see the same phenome-
non worked out for Fresno. thirty-five
miles away and 400 feet below. and
after you have visited all the seats of
these marvellous forces, go I'D the
streams and see hom many hundreds of
times these forces may be utilized over
and over again
Q.-1ou astonish us with these start
ing revelations. We stopped at Sac
ramento and noticed that the street
cars were operated by electrical power.
ana we saw at the railroad shops the
same manifestations, but we did not
suppose the vital force of it all came
over a little wire no larger than the
pencil you hold in your hand. and so
lar away, too. Certainly, your noun
talns are a wonderful resource of yolr
State, in the view your present, and as
time rolls on there will be millions of
people drawing from their exhaustless
wealth Have you finished yet?
A.-Not quite. One more resource T
want TO present, to which our noun
tains contribute grandly and nobly. I
refer to the scenic beauty and gran
deur of our combined mountain and
valley landscape effects Now this is
getting away from the utilitarian view
of life; but should we not do this when
we can do so without sacrifice to the
utilities of life? / look forward to the
time-I shall not be here. but 7 shall
witness it-when by reason largely of
the unique, and harmonious. and sur
prlsingly beautiful distribution of our
natural scenery there will be developed
mere IN California a race of men and
women, IN all the attributes which dis
tlngulsh men and women from beasts
ana from each other, superior to any
other TO be found on this globe. No
race OF people can dwell permanently
for many generations in the midst of
such scenic gIories without exaltation
of character
Q-Pardon me. But we are remind
ed OF one inexcusable omission among
the resources you have here portrayed
We want to assure you that your in
comparable and marvellous Yosemite
has spread your fame wherever a lover
of Nature is to be found. We all in
tend to go there, if nowhere else.
A.-Thank you for this Just tribute
to our Yosemite. Your concession in
TINS comedies our whole case. And
now a word as to the valleys Here
we hnd ourselves surrounded by condi-
tons that make possible the most di-
VersHled agriculture anywhere to be
found on the earth-the chief factor of
Whlch lies in our climate of which I
nave spoken. Let it be sugar-beet cul-
ture- Ihe sugar campaign (why it is
called campaign | cannot imagine) in
California Is two or three months long
er than it can be in Nebraska or Utah
or Vlrglnia-where there are factories
now-or in any State with the same oil
matte conditions as in those States.
We plant the seed here at a time when
the ground is frozen fast and tight IN
NEBRASKA, and We run our factories
lohS aIter the factories must shut down
thefe. we grow more to the acre and
the peet mas greater per cent. OF
sacchaf1ne matter. In 1896 the out
put OF our factories was 4.750 tons. and
othef plants are in course of erection
one at Salinas is to be the largest In
the world.
Let 1t be the cereals-wheat. oats. bar
ley-and we stand at the front rank.
Our vegetable gardens are producino
something the year through. In 1892
we shlpped out of the State 1000 car
loads OF vegetables, and shipments
were made every month in the wear
Among these were 800 carloads of
beans The canned asparagus of this
stare is famous on sea and land We
are building up a large trade for gar
den and flower seeds.
Our sheep and wool industry is i'm
portant. Unlike the Pennsylvania and
Ohio wool growers. who are numerous
but have small ffocks, our growers are
comparatively few, with large f1ocks.
have already referred to the method
of feeding. There are individual own
ers OF thirty and forty thousand head.
They feed upon the grain stubble in
early fall, but mainly subsst upon the
wild grasses and browse off the foot
hills and mountains.