Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1884 — The Land of Fruit Tree and vines. [ARTICLE]

The Land of Fruit Tree and vines.

John Codman, writing to the New York Evening Post of the future of California, says: “The era of wheat will come to an end like those of gold, of hides and tallow, and of Indian hunting for furs or wild beasts. In the near future we can see in its stead a land of fruit trees and vines, a new France in our republic, greater than France, a republic by herself. There is scarcely any difference in acreage. California has 1811,000 square miles, and France has less than 200,000. In climate and soil California is superior., It could support 30,000,000 Frenchffien, if we had" them hero with their economical habits* as well as it now supports 1,000,000 extravagant soidisant Americans.” n *—— r-3 V The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one eonversas wiih, is the qualification of little minds and ungenerous tempers. A y6ung man with this cast of mind cuts himself off from all manner of improvement—Mdtion. ~ ....