Florida, its history and its romance; . ELKS BUILDING for years, made California the largest grain-producing state in the Union. Until the greatestgranary the world has ever produced was ruined by wanton husbandry, Sacramento was starvingfor agricultural development, the basis of all large commercial centers. Upon the colossal ruin of that granary is now being builded an agricultural empire of inten-sive farming, largely under irrigation, and it is an empire of more than 3,000,000 acres of fertilevalley land, and almost an equal amount of foothill land on which both citrus and deciduous fruits
Florida, its history and its romance; . ELKS BUILDING for years, made California the largest grain-producing state in the Union. Until the greatestgranary the world has ever produced was ruined by wanton husbandry, Sacramento was starvingfor agricultural development, the basis of all large commercial centers. Upon the colossal ruin of that granary is now being builded an agricultural empire of inten-sive farming, largely under irrigation, and it is an empire of more than 3,000,000 acres of fertilevalley land, and almost an equal amount of foothill land on which both citrus and deciduous fruitsflourish. Owing to the fortunate geographical location of Sacramento, and to the mountain rangeson either side of the Valley, this city must be the outlet of the almost undreamed of agriculturaland mineral production of the future. In the mute language of every large city in the United States,these facts mean a population of, at least, a half million people for Greater Sacramento before thisempire shall have been fully developed. Of Sa
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