Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-17
A Correspondents Advice as to Securing
Hama


EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN As your paper
finds its way, no doubt, to the family cir
Gle of many an anxious and distressed FAM
lily, to which the word home has dear
and cherished significance families dis
tressed by poverty and the many perplex-
ing cares of life, living from day to day
dependent altogether upon daily labor for
sustenance, and that even not permanent
III It's character to such, how dear and en-
chanting is the word home, when taken in
the sense in which we here propose to de-
pict it.
A home what is it? 1t is not house
and lot, or set of rooms where the occu-
pant is tenant, nor scarcely can such be
called home where the occupant Is the
owner in fee. A mansion may be con-
structed on q piece of terra trnla two hun
bred or three hundred feet square, deco
rated, if you please, with all manner of
flowers, shrubbery and evergreens, having
beautiful fences and marble walks, but such
is not a home. The word is an endearing
one, and produces heartbeat when we
utter it, and is complex in meaning. In
bAC ttt) VI Jul hOlilC lAlSoAb Hl
closure of land wherein the necessarics of
life were grown, and its center was
the dwelling-house wherein the food
and raiment for the body was prepared
wherein the girls were taught to cook, to
sew, to knit, to spin and weave, while the
boys were taught all the elements of agri-
culture and stock-growing. In the opin-
ion of your correspondent this is really the
meaning of home to-day, with few omis-
sions among the industries of the house
hold. Then a home, as here meant, is,
say, so or 100 acres of land, having por
ton of it in a state of cultivation, with a
comfortable dwelling house, barn and
stable, and other necessary out-houses,
with chickens, hogs, COWS and horses
belonging and attached thereto, with
plenty of peach, apple, fig, plum and
pear trees, seasoned with a few
grape and blackberry vines growing
thereon. such place can be called home.
And right here we wish to say to the home
less poor of California, that such place is
within the reach of every poor man at the
head of a family now resident of this State.
l repeat it, you can get just such habita-
ton If you have enough vim IN you to get
up and go after it. OF course, you cannot
get such a place in close proximity to the
great cities of our State, neither can you
find them in the densely populated counties.
You must move out more in the interior
and borders of the State. Take any one of
the thirty populated counties and you
can find vacant land IN all of them,
and land, too, where, by prudence
and industry, you can make for
yourself comfortable home. If you do
not know which way to start to find land,
take the road leading north or northwest
erly, and when you have travelled as far
as Tehama, Shasta, Siskiyou, Humboldt,
Trinity, or Modoc counties you will be in
the vicinity of some OF Uncle Sans vacant
land. Do not fall back in despair, and
wall at hard times. Pick up a little manly
courage and put forth half the zeal your
forefathers did, and you will soon have
comfortable homes and home endearments.
Try it. J. P. W. DAVIS.
Igo, Shasta county, Cal.