Dairying is a profitable industry.
Poultry farming a little uncertain.

If interested in mining there is much to explore.

Just in this county are found gold, silver, copper, asphaltum, bituminous rock, gypsum, quicksilver, natural gas, and petroleum.
And what sort of a climate does one find?
Santa Barbara is an all-year-round resort.

It has all that one could ask.
"The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea." It is a perpetual summer--sometimes a cold and rainy June, sometimes a little too warm, sometimes a three days' sand-storm, disagreeable and trying; but it is always June, as we in New England know June.

At least it is Juney from 9 A.M.until 4 P.M.Just before sunset the temperature falls.