Bisbee daily review., 1906-06-03
GOV. PARDEE WRITES LETTER
 ID PUBLIC
ift9 M t Official Statement of Exact Status of Affairs in Great est of All Pacific States Fol- lowing Disaster,

Governor Pardee, Of the State of California. has issued a written state ment "To the Governors of Our Sis ter States" giving the exact status of affairs at the present time follow ing the earthquake and fire which oc- cured in San Francisco April IS. Gov ernor Pardee says:
 Executive Department, Sacramento,
 State of California.
 June 21. 1908, To the Governors of Sister States:
 California with one hundred millions of acres is greater than New England, New York and Pennsylvania. On the eastern sea-board it's coast line would extend from Boston on the north to Charleston on the south.
 In some localities the notion is prev alent that all this great state was shaken by the recent earthquake. Such is not the fact. The earthquake was severe only in about two per cent of the era of the State and as a dis turbing factor was confined to a dis trict seventy-five miles north, one hun dred and twenty-five miles south and fifty miles eastward from San Francis co. Even in this narrow strip of California's expanse, the damage from the earthquake was small in compari- son with that of the fire in San Fran cisco. Indeed the Charleston earth quake in 1886 was proportionately much more destructive to life and property than was the shock of April 18th in San Francisco. The buildings tN, ENronnicnn many. None of the 'skyscrapers" and vecy tew Of the other buildings suf- fe:ed material damage.
 Tn cfirc which followed the earth Taake, however, destroyed the busi ness section of the city. The fault along the San Francisco peninsula, which slipped cO-incident to the earth quake shock, was unfortunately in the immediate vicinity of the water mains which supplied the city. These were helpless. Undoubtedly the city will provide against any, such contingency hereafter
 IL is unnecessary to compare the San Francisco disaster with the great fire in Chicago, the Galveston flood and other calalnities. but il is well, per haps. to note that scores of American cities have suffered more proportion ately and actually from flood, fire pes tilencc and cyclones than has San Francisco from the earthquake The foregoing statement is made to you not to minimize nor gloss over San FranciscOs calamity. for that was ~ery great. but remove the erroneous i'm presSion wherever II may exist that  due in any large degree to the earth quake. Though Californias chief city is momentarily in distress her people are undaunted by the great misfortune, and San Francisco will arise as other cities have arisen from
 So far as Califorr'a is concerned it is needful only to note that Illinois was not ruined by ChicagO's fire. that South Carolina did not suffer perma- nently from CharlestOn'S troubles. and that Texas, the only state larger in area than California, did not even pause in her marvellous progress be- cause of the Galveston flood. So CaIifornias s two million people are not bankrupt nor seriously affected in their courage or resources as re suit of the damage to her principal city.
 Califorrlas mountains, river beds and ancient gravel channels are still rich in gold. Her great valleys, two of which are larger than many east eTn States, the all of unmeasured fer tiIity. On their ten million acres can be raised anything from oranges 10 potatoes. The semi-tropical fruits can be grown from San Diego on the south to Bedding on the north-a stretch of six hundred miles of Cali fornia soil and California climate.
 Thirty or more thriving cities of five thousand or more people each. are centers of rich localities finding their markets in the world, and in their prosperity independent fany local af- fiictiCn elsewhere.
 Our forests of redwood, fir and pine along the coast and clothing the Sier- "a Nevada mountains never represent Vol