Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-23

LOS lNOAfAfAfR AAA~NNA
which seized upon all its people when
they saw the water would be brought
to the land and that the lands pro-
ducts could be marketed.
The result Of this confidence has been
the most remarkable growth IN the
history of our remarkable cbuntry. And
this growth is remarkable not simply
because Of its rapidity and volume, but
because Of its character, for perhaps
never was there virtually pioneers who
brought TO the work i'm hand the
trained intelligence, the high culture
and the accumulated wealth of modern
civilization.
The result Of all this is seen in the
beautiful cities and towns which are
scattered all over Southern California,
almost within stones throw of each
other, containing every modern con-
venience, every aid to right living, and
everything to make life happy. 1t Is
a prosperous and contented community,
which is the index of what our entire
state will now soon become, for the
spirit of advance has been awakened
from the Mexican TO the oregon line,
and I believe that the history of South
ern California IS to be repeated in all
parts of the state.
Emancipation of West
The east. I think, does not yet realize
the significance of what has occurred
during the past ten years I'm its rela-
tion to the Pacific coast. 1t does not
fully realize that, from being the back
doors for commerce. the ports Of the
Pacific coast have become front doors,
opening upon the scene of the great
commercial struggles of the future.
And M rspa1fVn how Woll
are equipped to take part in that
struggle.
We are looked upon as practically
an agricultural people, depending upon
our fields, with our mines as simply n
source of supply of the metal which
shall keep the commerce of the world
moving. 1t does not yet know that
we have been emancipated from a de-
pendence which has weighed so heavily
upon lis in the past.
1 refer to the dependence of most
forms of modern activity on coal. We
are known as a people whom the cost
of this agent in the development of
power prohibits from expanding in an
industrial direction. 1t does not yet
know that we have resources more
valuable than coal mines. our oil,
hundreds of miles of pipe for trans
porting, which extend from the interior
fuel than the coal mines of the east
can afford. our steamships on the sea
are being driven by it: our manufaC-
turing establishments upon the land
are using it. and it's abundance ana
cheapness renders possible a wide
range of industries dependent upon the
generation of power.
Greater Than Niagara
"And supplemental to this-and l
think in the end more important-is the
generation of electric power by means
of the streams which flow from the
everlasting SHOWS of the Sierra. AL
ready the pioneers in this great revo-
lutionary work are, from the base of
the Sierra Nevada, propelling cars in
San Francisco and Oakland, nearly
two hundred miles distant; that are
lighting streets and houses and fur
nishing power to cities and towns in
the great valleys and their work is yet
hardly begun.
1.-The power which Niagara could fur
nish, if harnessed, would not compare
with the combined power of the
streams fed by the Sierra's SHOWS.
And now comes forward the great
work of leading these waters after they
have set going machinery in all parts
of the great Sacramento and San Joa-
quin valleys to the fertile lands which,
for four hundred miles, extend from
Redding to Bakersfield.
''There exist the possibilities of the
duplication of Riverside Pasadena and
thee other flourishing and beautiful.
cities and towns of the south.
Irrigation Results
"What irrigation has done in one
part of the state it will do in the other.
and accompanying it will be the in
crease in population which has oc-
CURED wherever water led upon the
land has made the owner independent
of the tickle rain-bearing winds.
I'm my opinion the future of our
great state-indeed of the entire Pa
cific coasts assured. The funda-
mental bases of progress have been
laid, and we can foresee the lines which
that progress will take. We can in
imagination see the development of the
ultimate power of our soil, with its
vast range of products, and we can
almost hear the whir of wheels set in
motion all over our state by the fall
ing waters of our great mountainous
range. 1t is no wonder that We are en-
thusiastic when we, who know our
state, try to realize what 1t will be
when all its advantages are developed
and it takes its place as the richest,
the most powerful and the happiest of
all the states in the Union.
GEO. c. PERKINS"
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