. Burton's book on California and its sunlit skies of glory. ter, 6,000,000 lbs.;cheese, 950,000 lbs.; eggs, 275,000 cases;flour, 400,000 bbls.; canned goods, 350,000cases; olives, pickled, 1,000,000 gals.;olive oil, 500,000 gals.; beet sugar 100,-000,000 lbs.; wine and brandy, 1,200,000gals.; beer, 210,000 bbls.; petroleum, 35,-000,000 bbls.; beans, 32,000 tons. Totalvaluation, including manufactured prod-ucts, $150,000,000. FLELPetroleum, distillate, gas, coal, wood. COSTGas, 80c per 1000 feet. Electricity,9c per kilowatt hour. Petroleum.$ per bbl. now WE GROWPopulation, 1893, 55,000; 19
. Burton's book on California and its sunlit skies of glory. ter, 6,000,000 lbs.;cheese, 950,000 lbs.; eggs, 275,000 cases;flour, 400,000 bbls.; canned goods, 350,000cases; olives, pickled, 1,000,000 gals.;olive oil, 500,000 gals.; beet sugar 100,-000,000 lbs.; wine and brandy, 1,200,000gals.; beer, 210,000 bbls.; petroleum, 35,-000,000 bbls.; beans, 32,000 tons. Totalvaluation, including manufactured prod-ucts, $150,000,000. FLELPetroleum, distillate, gas, coal, wood. COSTGas, 80c per 1000 feet. Electricity,9c per kilowatt hour. Petroleum.$ per bbl. now WE GROWPopulation, 1893, 55,000; 1900, 102,-479; 1909, 305,000; post-office stampsales, 1908, $1,089,493; increase of 81per cent in five years. Los Angelesleads all cities of the country in in-crease of postal IS NOT EXCELLED ANYWHERE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 0 017 064 343 4. BURTONS BOOK ON California and Its Sunlit Skies of Glory 5^^ «,v*<* BY G. W. BURTON SECOND THOUSAND 1909 Times-Mirror Prinring and Binding House Los Angeles, California % COPYRIGHTED BY THE AUTHOR 1909 OS INTRODUCTION THE main purpose in offering to the public the pages that follow is to makeknown to readers outside of CaHfornia the attractiveness and beneficialeffects of life inside of this Golden State. After more than a quarter ofa century of newspaper work in the State, many readers of the copy producedby the author at frequent intervals suggested the publication of some of it in bookform. Yielding to these suggestions, the author collected the best things he had tooffer, and about the beginning of the current year undertook to test the sincerityof the admiration expressed by his friends. They stood the test in a manner whichthe author hopes will not add to his conceit, but will make everlastingly permanenthis deep sense of gratitude for the depth and firmness of th
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