Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-10
A WESTERN EMPIRE.
CnIifurnia's VAST Domain and Equally
Vast Industrial Outlook.

Cniifurnin's VAST Domain and Equally
Vast Industrial Outlook.
California occupies on the Pacific
slope strip about two hundred miles
wide, and extends Ia latitude from the
aGuthern line Of South Carolina to the
southern line OF Massachusetts,. To
make up Its area from the Atlantic
States requires Connecticut, Rboce
Islam d. New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia, North and South
Carolina, = nd TO all this must be added
abou. forty thousand iquaro miles from
New York and Ponnsylvania.
Laid Of ON the western slJe OF the
river in the Mississippi Valley Is cuts
Il small strip from Louisiana md
takes In Arksnsas, Missouri and Iowa.
One other Illustration: In the great
San Joaquin Valley coula be placed
New Hampshire, Vermont, Macs
achusetts, Connecticut, Rhode leland
anu one bali OF Maine, and yet crowd
bat little on the foothills.
1t IL only by ,uch statements as
these that one can July appreciate the
slze OF the state, or form any Just con-
ception as to what its future must be.
When its fertile valleys anu hills shall
TEEN with a population as dense as lie
that of the eastern coast, or wnen its
acres Oi arabic land shall all be- oc.
cupisd by an industrious and thrifty
people, 1t Is bound to become one oil
the RTeateat factors in this, our great
commonwealth.
True, II is trhverssd through alinobt
It's entire length by two mountatu
chains, the Sierra anu tue Cost Range,
but while these ranges contain consul.
cradle land not suitable for home.
making, they also give greht natural
| parks, Ike Inc Yosemite Valley, con-
tanning the gtAudest scenery in the
| worlJ, and what In OF lar grester i'm.
| portance, they furnish 40 abundance
| OF exceiient timber, besides acting at
great rain condensers, storing up In
| the deep cauyone the needed water to
make the valleys "blossoIn like the
rose"
These ranges, particularly the Sierfas
IRE dotteu with innumersbie lakes,
some OF them majestic In size anu
many at AL elevation OF more than
six thousand ieet. Upon the outlets
| OF these lake,, az well as upon the
mountaiB streams, are waterfalls mum.
eTOus ana grand enough to challenge
| the admiration OF even the most care
| ttss observer.
| Year 10y year the rancher has cTepl
| I'll her anu higher up the mountains,
| met to the foothills and later on Ia
many cases to the very mountain tOps,
finding almost everywhere genislity
VI climate Rbd fertility OF soil tina.
make these elevations quite "a uesir.
-Diu for homes as are tbs yalleys. Ana
ihus 1t iOlioxs thst there lie not 70
great an amount OF waste land Ms
1 might AZ fiTst be supposed.
Inc uplaLds un the Coast Ranges.
pecislly on me western slope, cJt Leu
| uuIng the summer by the ocean
ur, ezes and baIned In Its iogs, make
excellent greg ng land, ana here as
well SO upon tho high meadows VI the
rieIras, Is found ,ypically good dairy
country where "gilt.edgeu" butter eau
be malo every day in the year.
La these localitie', where the elevs-
lion dOes not exuetu 1000 feet, lies the
real apple producing part Of California,
the iIull cxceediug Ia size anu equal-
ing III flavor The choicest Eastern
product.
Rapid a. has been the tide OF immi.
grafton curing tue past ten years II
VIII DO feadiiy unuerstood that there
10 yet an Immense amount OF good
Isnd not octuptd. The settlemenis
already mRue nave teen Of The nature
VI cIueisl tetts, demonstrating VIVA,
ere the poss,b lilies 10 the several 10.
cilitles. There ie yet productive de.
sirable land enough let TO furnish
homes lor n million people, anu IN 10
| place in the world can an indu slfious,
,hri ty man with small cspial tU be
| gtu with iiuu q better place In which
II cAst HE llI than in Calitornie.
| A variety OF interesting anu beauti-
uliy illustrated literature, uescIipiive
| VI CAlilOTnia's RESOURCES, attractive
rsOIts aud It's many WI iuefs, also
maps anu folders showing routes, tain
movements anu ether valuable iulOl-
nation, may be obtained by addressing
ID. Il Gray, General Agent, B.utn-rn
Pacific Co., IA Dooly Block, Bal.
Lake CiIy, Utah; VIM. X. McAllisIeE,
General Agent, ltl2 l7tn st., Denver,
COlo.,or L. ii. GJouman, Gsheral Pa
senger Agent, san Franclsco, Cal.