Millionaires of a Day An Inside History of the Great Southern California Boom
Millionaires of a Day An Inside History of the Great Southern California Boom
Theodore S Theodore Strong Van Dyke
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From the north southward, every part of Cali- fornia has in its turn been deemed a desert, fit only for cattle ranges. As each county has in 164 MILLIONAIRES OF A DAY. turn emerged from the desert state, it has turned out a fairer and richer garden than the last place that had been found not to be. A desert. Yet eacli newly discovered garden in its turn forgot that it had once been a desert, and never contemplated the possibility of being mistaken in the same old way about the next county on th...e south of it. At the beginning of the boom San Diego County was the last link in the chain of deserts, and occu- pied the same place in public opinion that the rich and beautiful counties of San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Orange had held ten years before. With a vast expanse of beautiful country and a perfect climate for the raising of the most valuable products, with a million acres of as fertile soil as any of the fruit-growing sections of the State, with an abundant rainfall in its mountains and a greater number of fine reservoir sites for the mak- ing of great lakes than almost any other county in the state, it was almost as unknown to the world at large as the wilds of Alaska.
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