Newspaper clippings - California - transcript (part 3).
Date
1899
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Publisher
UNKNOWN
Abstract
"'I have seen thousands of thin, colorless faces of men, women and children half starved and emaciated beyond belief gazing in despairing hopelessness at the barren fields where the seed had dry rotted in the earth, destroying the last hope of success after the failure from last season's drought and yet no rain.' He further says: 'Crossing the plains and coming into the mountains on the eastern side, the greatest mining region in the United States, I found every mill was still.' The people were in a semi-state of starvation; and even in Fresno, an irrigated section, water is so scarce that with the greatest economy, only a half crop can be raised. Yakima, he remarks, has nothing to fear from California this year."
Description
11 page typed transcription, created by Click Relander.