The New Empire And Her Representative Men Or the Pacific Coast Its Farms Min
The New Empire And Her Representative Men Or the Pacific Coast Its Farms Min
Wilson Hamilton
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Here the major domosaw to it that none who belonged below the salt should sit above it at table, and in the dreams which whiled away each siesta the then lords of the soil saw no vision of what was to be. Into this land of the lotus eaters came the enterprise of the immigrant and capitalist. The dry plains and mesas which had grudged a lean pasture to sheep and cattle were transformed, as by magic, into orange groves and vineyards. The waters of the Rivers San Gabriel, Santa Ana, and Los Angele...s were har- nessed to the plow, and the attractions of climate were soon supplemented by the verdure and fruit of our enlivened land- 120 THE NEW EMPIRE. scape; and the result is a delicious series of rural settlements, than which nothing- can be more attractive The shores of the Mediterranean have nothing to offer that can surpass th-e blandishments here, except historical associations, and what does the dreamer in a Los Angeles hammock care if he can- not look out upon the scene of the Sabine rape; and does the vineyardist of San Gabriel, or the orange farmer of Pasadena, enjoy less the profits that come out of the soil because it was not fattened by the dust and bones of noble Romans ?
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