The world: historical and actual . however, several other cities ofvery consider-able import-ance, Sacra-mento, the cap-ital. Stockton,Los Angeles,Oakland, SanUiego, Marys-ville and San-ta Cruz. Thegreat misfort-une of thestate is thai itsgreat proper-ties are largelyheld by afew monopo-lists who spendtheir moneyelsewhere. An-other misfort-une is the classof menial la-borers, the Chi-nese. From thestandpoint ofeconomy, Mon-golian labor isbeneficent, butthe very gen-eral opinion ofthe people isthat the statewould havebeen better offif no Asiatichad ever cross-ed t he lias man
The world: historical and actual . however, several other cities ofvery consider-able import-ance, Sacra-mento, the cap-ital. Stockton,Los Angeles,Oakland, SanUiego, Marys-ville and San-ta Cruz. Thegreat misfort-une of thestate is thai itsgreat proper-ties are largelyheld by afew monopo-lists who spendtheir moneyelsewhere. An-other misfort-une is the classof menial la-borers, the Chi-nese. From thestandpoint ofeconomy, Mon-golian labor isbeneficent, butthe very gen-eral opinion ofthe people isthat the statewould havebeen better offif no Asiatichad ever cross-ed t he lias many natural curiosities. TheYosemite Valley is the most remarkable valley inthe world for grandeur. Lake Tahoe is a marvel ofpurity and transparency. Nowhere else does thepine reach such stupendous proportions. There areseveral groves in which may be found many trees T ?k 596 STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES. over 100 feet in circumference. The most notablewild beast of that region is the bear—grizzly, brownand COLORADO. Colorado receives its name from the Uio Coloradoriver and its Grand Canon between longtitudes 113° and 115, where the river flows for threehundred miles be-tween perpendicularwalls of rock, some-times 6,000 feethigh,forming one of thegreatest natural cu-riosities. The stateitself, the thirty-eighth member ofthe Union, lies be-tween latitudes 41° and longitudes 102° and 109°.Like Arizona, it isone mighty treasure-house of gold andsilver, with no a-daptation to agricul-ture, except as theland is irrigated. Thevalleys and plateausyield nutritive grasssparcely, but abund-antly for the encour-agement of grazingas an industry. Thestate lias these twoindustries — miningand herding—whichfurnish its is comparativelyeasy to irrigate theland and secure bountiful harvests, but the stateis too far from the seaboard to raise main for
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