Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-27

ms In Warrington star.
| plies Of fruit, oil, wine, nuts and every
/ Kind Of semi-tropical product
| Before the irrigating streams flow to
the thirsty land they will turn wheels
to generate electricity that will turn
other wheels TN manufactures.
Throughout the state manufacturing
and agriculture will he Joined by these
silver threads, each contributing to the
others prosperity. Electricity Will work
the metals found I'm the mountains.
The production OF gold and silver will
be increased hundredfold, while ron
and copper will give rise to hundreds of
industries now little dreamed OF.
Scientific forestry will create an in
exhaustible supply of lumber which
will supply hundreds of mills and work.
shops with material to be worked into
shapes for home and foreign Use.
Everywhere will be industry and pros
perity, for whatever is produced the
world will want. Along the foothills of
the Sierra and amid the mountains OF
the coast range will be thousands of
villas Of the rich, i'm and about which
will be expanded hundreds of millions
OF dollars to create palaces and exotic
gardens where the earth's most de-
lightful climate may be enjoyed.
San Francisco bay and Puget sound
will become the busiest commercial
ports in America, and at each point
will be established vast shipbUil ing
works, which will supply the needs of
an immense transpacific and European
trade. The application Of electricity to
navigation will render possible speed
of more than fifty miles an hour, and
will bring Yokohama within less than
four days sail of Pacific coast cities,
and Liverpool only five days distant.
The greatest commerce of the globe
will be carried on the waters of the Pa
cihc and evidences of the activities of
the entire human race will be most APP
parent there, as the activities of the
nations of today are manifested upon
the Atlantic.
World viii Face About
The world will, in fact, have faced
about, America looking westward ana
Europe and Asia looking eastward. The
relations of San Francisco to Toxic
Peking and st. Petersburg, as the CEN
ter of Russian oriental power, will have
the same prominence in the affairs OF
the world as do the present relations
of New York to London, Paris and
Berlin. The trend of travel. as of COM
merce, will be to and from Asia from
the Pacific coast, and the advancement
in art and science which the oriental
peoples will have attained will make
itself felt on this side of the Pacific as
European advancement now does on
this side of the Atlantic. The vast and
rapid production of wealth which the
awakening of the Asiatic population
will have caused will result in making
the Pacific coast the seat of the great
est activities of the United States, and
to it will be transferred intellectual
as well as commercial supremacy.
Alaska is going to prove the greatest
wonder of the century. It's yield OF
precious metals will increase with the
thorough and scientific examination of
its geological formations, and hundreds
of mines will be opened whose mills
will make seem like toys the present
giant ore crusher of the Treadwell
mine, whose 900 stamps never cease
night or day their work of reducing
to powder the gold bearing rocks.
Electric railroads will make accessible
all parts of the vast region which the
mighty Yukon drains. and states with
beautiful capitals and cities filled with
busy people Will flourish under the arc
tic circle.
Amid the snow and ice and darkness
of arctic winters a brilliant society VIII
find or invent amusements and all the
refinements which attend wealth and
culture will be found where now are
the barbarous customs of degraded and
half starved wandering tribes; and
where the miner now struggles against
insanity during the long night, gayety
and happiness will be the rule. Stu
pendous advances in electrical, chemi-
cal and kindred sciences will enable
civilization to maintain itself on the
shores of the Arctic ocean, and from
the mouth of the Mackenzie river to
Point Barrow will be thriving towns
dependent upon the metallic riches
which will be found on land or in the
sands beneath the sea.
An active. energetic people established
so near the pole, 1t will not be possible
for that yet undiscovered point longer
to withhold itself from scientific eX-
animation. A way to it, by means of
electric or other conveyance, will be
found, and if it is ascertained to be
worth a visit regular lines of trans
portation will enable globe trotters to
have the novel experience of standing
on what may be called the apex of the
world.