Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-22
AGRICULTURAL.
MaTTER PREPARED SPECIALLY FOR
TIE aREcoRD UNION"
The North and South of the state-Prepa-
ration for winter-Workshop
on the Farm

was looked upon as too dry for general farm
products, and it was not supposed that the
small grains could be made to succeed there
without irrigation. The southern end OF the
State was in fact, up to the date referred to, re-
garded in lust about the same light that the
whole State was for the first few years after
the advent Of the American people into it
sort of worthless country for agricalt-
ural purposes It was originally believed
by the first American settlers that
none Of the State was good for
anything except for mining and grazing, and
it took number of years and many success
full experiments in culture to change this
general opinion, even as to the most northern
and best-Yatered sections. No wonder, then,
that it required still longer time to change
the general opinion as to the extreme southern
portions of the State where the annual
waterfall is not half that of northern Cali
fornia. But time has demonstrated that even
In the extreme south-from Los Angeles to
the border of Lower California = agri
culture can be carried on quite
successfully by depending on the
natural rainfall and careful and thor
ough cultivation. Grain growing and trait
culture are steadily advancing and growing
in importance, and the value of general agri-
culture is gaining year by year to the ex-
trerne south line of the State. For the last
ten years southern California has been the
attractive point for immigrants to the State.
People leaving the Atlantic States have been
moved in great measure to flee
the cold and disagreeable weather ex-
perienced there, and they have apparently
made up their minds to find the other
extIeme-extreme warm weather. Hence
in determining to come to California they
have set their eyes and hearts on that part of
it where they could get the farthest from the
cold they felt at home. But this has not
been the only or principal idea Of those who
have gone south. The fact is there has been
a systematic and very general effort made by
the people of the southern section of the
State to attract immigrants to that section.
The owners Of large tracts Of land in the
southern counties have broken up and divided
their lands into small and convenient sec
tions and have put the same upon the mar
kets at low and reasonable figures. They
have gope further. They have in very many
favorable localities laid their lands off into
plats for rural settlements and offered special
Inducements for actual settlers thereon.
They have acted in concert to publish to the
world and to every country the general ac-
vantages offered by climate, by soil, by favor
able regulations Of the proposed colonies.
They have in fact advertised the
country for all it was worth, wherever such
advertisements could find readers and secure
attention. They have pointed out the spe-
cifc localities Of lands for colonies and stated
price per acre and lot. They may and have in
many instances overdrawn the pictures, over
stated the advantages, and caused some dis
appointment to those who have acted upon
them, but the general result has been bene-
fetal to those whose enterprise insugurated
the schemes, beneficial to the section at large
and beneficial to those who have been induced
to settle therein. Even at this time, after this
general cali for immigrants has been out and
has been availed of for ten years and more,
the tide of immigration to California is to
the southern counties, and land is in greater
demand there to-day than in any other sec
ton Of the State. Even the mesa lands,
which up to quite recently had been regarded
as worthless, are being sold at fair
prices to make farms of and are
being converted Into comfortable homes
for an industrious and prosperous people.
As general result the owners of land in
southern California have been enabled to sell
their surplus holdings at satisfactory prices
the country has been settled up by an enter
priziag people, who have not only brought
money with them, but who have made money
in the country, and in general progress the
south end of the State is leading the north
end very decidedly. All this has been done
in face Of the fact that for general agriculture
the northern half OF the State possesses many
mere advantages than the south half,
and has been, since the beginning of
cultivation in the State, producing
ten, yes, an hundred times the agricultural
products the south half hes produced. The
great wheat crops that have been exported TO
Europe, and that has given California the
highest position among the wheat-exporting
countries of the world. have been grown until
within the past few years almost exclusively
north of San Francisco. The butter and
cheese that has supplied the home markets,
and considerable quantity for export at
certain seasons of the year, have been
made principally and almost exclusively north
of San Francisco. The hay that has sup
pied the demands of the cities of the interior
and OF San Francisco, has been produced
north Of that city. The potatoes and vege-
tables of all kinds that have found their way
ia5o and supplied our home markets and the
markets of the States and Territories east OF
us TO Colorado, have been grown in the CEN
central and northern half of the State has
produced the largest share of the wool that
has made California noted as w0ol-grOwiDg
country, and the wool of the north has 81
tways rated higher than that grown in the
south. The hardy fruits that have won for
the State the name of the first fruii. producing
country of the world, have been grown In the
central and northern counties. Even the
grapes. wine and raisins that have won for
.(tofsfcrnfa tho fJfla If tho - trqrca Of
America, have principally been grown and
produced north of the central line OF the
State. Even to-day there is more good land
uncultivated in the northern half of the State
than in the southern half probably ten
acres to one. Notwithstanding all these
facts-for they ara facts that cannot be con-
troverted successfully-the tide of ifnmigrs-
ton to California has been for ten years past,
and Is now, to the southern counties. Now,
while we congratulate southern California
upon the success she has achieved. and
is achieving, we desire 60 point out to the
people Of northern California the cpportuni-
ties they are neglecting, the resources they
are allowing 70 remain uldeVeloped and the
prosperity they are allowing to be snatched
from them by their more philosophical.
wide-awak and enterprising fellow citizens
of the southern counties. TINS people of the
North have been sitting with their hands
LOlueu luE tuc AaASb bSu CARS anu sctlAS AnAuy
immigrants pass their doors on the
way to the South, aud contenting
themselves all the time with the be-
lief that these immigrants would soon
get tired of the sunny. sand parched-up coun-
try down th, re and would finally seek homes
in a country more favored BY nature, with
the great necessity to agricultural IrS sperity
water that they would return to the
country in which they saw when passing
broad fields of golden grain, thousands of
hills covered win cattle, and agricultural
products OF every nature crowdiug the high
ways. railways and navigable streams on
the way to the metropolis of the coast
to supply home aud foreign markets.
This belisf-may we not say hope-has never
been realized. 1t is true that many of the
people that have gone South have been dis
appointed; some OF them have, through one
cause or another, been losers; have be-
come disguised with the country; some have
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