San Francisco : its builders, past and present : pictorial and biographical . lts through legitimate and highly hon-orable industrial enterprises. He was one of the last of Californiaspioneers the foundation of whose fortunes was laid in the early had no superior as a business man and a financier. Some of hisactivities were of such extensive proportions that only a man of hislarge ideas and splendid grasp of both principle and detail could havecarried them through. The benefit which California derived from hislife work cannot be overestimated. He founded industries whichgave employment
San Francisco : its builders, past and present : pictorial and biographical . lts through legitimate and highly hon-orable industrial enterprises. He was one of the last of Californiaspioneers the foundation of whose fortunes was laid in the early had no superior as a business man and a financier. Some of hisactivities were of such extensive proportions that only a man of hislarge ideas and splendid grasp of both principle and detail could havecarried them through. The benefit which California derived from hislife work cannot be overestimated. He founded industries whichgave employment to thousands of men and by his genius he revolu-tionized methods of production, thus cheapening the necessities of also developed new agiicultural possibilities and he pointed outthe path leading to prosperity for others inasmuch as he indicatedthe natural resources and the possibilities of the state. His life workis immeasurable by any known standards and years will pass ere thestimulus of his activity and the force of his genius and ability willcease to be
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