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7 hands etc the diadem from California's brow etc. Then where oh where would be the supineness of which you speak. These
Californians now sleeping in apathy caring only for what pays would then blaze up as did the devil when touched by Ithuriel's
spear. A man may not apreciate his wife, but let her daddie try to take her back I dont know whether the legislature is in
session or not, I rather think not as I have not noticed any Sacramento drift in the newspapers lately. As to the extension
of the grant, the more we can get into it the better. It should at least comprehend all the basins of the streams that pour
into the Valley. No great opposition would be encountered in gaining this much, as few interests are involved of antagonistic
character. On the