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"Southern Humboldt, stimulated by a railroad, would quickly develop into a fruit region, unsurpassed in the state.Broad reaches of fertile lands now given over to sheep-raising, would be divided up into small holdings, and set out to apples, peaches, prunes, grapes and small fruits."