Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-07
PARDEE MAKES Appeal.

PARDEE MAKES APPEAT.
Executive Department. Sacramento.
State of California.
To the governors of our sister states:
California with one hundred mill
lions Of acres is greater in area than
New England. New York and Penn
sylvania. 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
severe in onlv about two per cent of
the area Of the state and as disturb
ing factor was confined to a district
seventy-f1ve miles north. one hundred
and twenty-five miles south and fifty
miles eastward from San Francisco.
Even In this narrow strip of Califor-
MAS expanse, the damage from the
earthquake was small in comparison
with that of the fire in San Francisco.
Indeed the Charleston earthquake IN
1885 was proportionately much more
destructive to life and property than
was the shock of April 18th in San
Francisco. The buildings destroyed IN
San Francisco We're not many. None
of the "skyscrapers" and very few Of
lHe otneF pullulHSS Suileieu aeoiiEA
damage.
The fire which followed the earth
quake, however, destroyed the business
section of the city. The fault along
the San francisco peninsula, which
| slipped co-incident to the earthquake
shock was unfortunately IN the I'M
mediate vicinity Of the water mains
which supplied the city. These We're
broken, rendering the fire department
!, 1,,Io IND hn ri
| provide against any such contingency
hereafter.
| 1t Is unnecessary to compare the San
Francisco disaster with the great nre
in Chicago the Galveston flood, and
other calamities, but 1t is well, per-
| haps, to note that scores of American
cities have suffered more proportion
ately and actually from flood, fire, pes
thence and cyclones that has San
Francisco from the earthquake. Inc
foregoing statement is made to you
not to minimize nor gloss over San
Francisco's calamity, for that was very
great but to remove the erroneous I'M
preston wherever it may exist, that
| the destruction was due in any large
degree to the earthquake. Though Call
| fornia's chief city is momentarily IN
distress her people are undaunted by
the great misfortune, and San Fran
cisco will arise as other cities have
arisen from the ashes Of her former
| greatness.
So far as California is concerned II
is needful only to note that Illinois
was not ruined by Chicago's fire, thai
South Carolina did not suffer perma-
nently from Charleston's troubles ano
! that Texas, the only state. larger ir
area than California, did not ever
pause in her marvellous progress be-
cause Of the Galveston flood. So Cali
i fornia's two million people are MOI
bankrupt nor seriously affected II
i their courage or resources as a result
to the damage to her principal city.
California's mountains, river beqs
and ancient gravel channels are still
rich in gold. Her great valleys, two
of which are larger than many eastern
!, states, are all of unmeasured fertility
|, On their ten million acres can be rails
ed anything from oranges to potatoes
The semi-tropical fruits can be grow
from San Diego on the south to Red
ding on the north.-a stretch Of 81,
hundred miles of California SOIL ant
California climate.
Thirty or more thriving cities o
five thousand or more people each, arr
!, centers of rich localities finding thei
markets in the world and in their pros
perity independent of any local afflic
; ton elsewhere.
Our forests Of redwood, fire and PIN
, along the coast and clothing the Sierra
Nevada mountains never represented
greater potential wealth than at tn
present.
;. Our oil fields are yearly FURNISHING
} millions of barrels Of oil and immens
electric power is being generated b,
the streams of the Sierra. Each o
these industries has solved the prob
lem, Of cheap power for California an
yet neither has passed the first stag
Of development. Add to these our win
tiers Of gentle spring and our sum
mers without enervating heat, MAXIM
possible maximum production pc
employee, and one may read the futur
!, Of California among manufacture
states.
The great harbor Of San Francisc
:, is still open to the commerce Of tn
! wurld, and this connecting link be
twrer. America and the expanding in
terests Of the Orient, Alaska and tn
!, islands of the Pacific has no less valu
!. than before the day of the disaster
The great steamship wharves of Sa
Francisco are intact and SO are tn
! two great transcontinental railways
. the Southern Pacific and the Santa FL
The three lines of the Southern Pacifi
: report no diminution in freight or pas
a senger business, not even around tn
: Bay Of San Francisco, and equal
y cheering are advices from the SAINT
, F'e The third transcontinental line t
= San Francisco, now building, tn
a western Pacific, is unaffected b
a tne recent trouble and Is going stead
: lily on with it's work.
/ Californias markets are all the con
] tinents and islands of the earth. Gu
I, thirty five thousand cars of apples
pee ches. prunes, pears, .plums, wal
e nuts, olives grapes, raisins and wines
r our thirty thousand carloads of lum
! Der, shipped by land and sea, our trai
. loads of sugar. vegetables and all tn
: multitude Of products Of our favore
i soil command that same world-wid
n market that they have in past years
: Our universities at Berkeley an
!, Palo Alto are not crippled; our school!
j from primary schools to high schools 1
their buildings. their equipment an
d thehigh class Of instructors the salarie
: paid command, offer now as heretofor
s the greatest possible inducement
s homeseekers desiring the freest ave