Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-04

understand and appreciate as | d. (and neither
even after giving the same sent nent in two public
lectures in Sacramento about ten years ago can
/ now, January, 1889, Is, first, that the Sacra-
mento valley is so large and SO peculiarly sur
rounded by mountainous regions that 1t almost
entirely controls its own atnoS Dhere. Second,
soon after the sun has risen above the Nevada
mountains it heats up the atmosphere in the valley,
causing it TO rise resulting IN q vacuum, which is
Immediately filed with colder air from the Nevada
mountains on the east and from the Coast range, to-
gether with the sea breeze on the west. The air
II ON the colder regions itself soon becomes heated,
anu III ITS turn rises, and ether cold air comes con-
SANITY flowing ID, becoming heated and rising,
heated and rising, which creates perfect miniature
| tradewind during the day-the SINE IN prinAt as
that OF the torrd zone between the equator and The
poles: and when Old Sol. hides his blazing head
behind the Coast range, the last cold air from The
mountains remain with US during the night, giving
US refrt shiug nights rest, generally under
two pairs of blankets, from which we arise in the
morning fresh and vigorous, with our iuteects
ceai and our energies eager Tor the conflicts Of the
succeeding day
Having, within the then last six or eight months,
passed through the toIrid zone both on the Allan
tic and Pacific, and for months studied the nature
Of the trade winds between the equator and the
poles it must be conceded that was most peculiar
ly educated to judge OF the influence Of the mini-
allure trade wind Of the Sacramento valley.
This miniature trade wind carries off to the
ethereal regions nearly all of the maleria arising
from decayng vegetation and decayins animal nat
ter and will carry of the whole when aided little
nave nOl!cSu here WhBl apprOaG- ing ttlc
body of = dead horse the plains, during our
summer season, that could not detect any un-
pleasant odor 2ris g from it, unless approaehsd it
exactly in the vein of infected air blowing from it,
until Arrived within few fee; Of it. Such scene
in any other country in, would render the
atmosphere uEbearable for an entire circle Of many
blocks, and call in all the surrounding crows for
miles in every direction. And have been ! III 10y
butchers that fresh meat will keep longer here with
out taiutng, and by groeers and families that salt
pork and salt beef and fish will remain longer out
OF the brine without rusting than in any other
country These facts prove the atmosphere in this
valley to be the purest on the globe It is
true that l experienced two or three suitry
nights here during the entire month august, $780,
but nothipg-in comparison with the sullry feverish
nights by dozens in any other iuaad city country
| was ever in, and many Of the maritime
cities also It's also true that We have some warm
meridiars here, bat their debts than bal.
anced by their credits. Our pure and healthy
atmosphere; our cool nights for refreshing aooth-
ing sleep a. Tired natures great r-storer rs some
eloquent writer has most happily expressed iD; our
freedom from sutry fogs. and our harvest
sons free from irregular and GrenchIng summer
storms, all OF them their legitimate oifsprings
l received my knowledge OF merchandising, first by
clesng for older brother, and second, by clerk
ing for long lamented brother-in-lIw, the Hon.
Cyrus Butler OF Erie county, Ohio, enc Of the mo
philosophical and scientifically correct business men
| ever met with but had been chilled mot once
warm tor three weeks) While coming around Cape
Horn in the midst OF their winter, that when COM
menced clerking for this enterprsing firm my phys
ical powers were very feeble and nay mental deeply
sympathiz;ng with the physical was really unfit
for business duriug the whole eight months was
with them But they always ind to me, pai
me eheeriully and allowed NE to hire ell the help
needed whenever there was heavy lifting to be done.
scarcely claim that | earned the 500 per
month that they paid me- except ia faithfulness in
business aud being G constant watchman. day and
night; by cooking my own bread in the back part
of the store before business opeued in the morning
and after closing at night. l was away from
81 -. -.
the afternoon of the 18th If September, Mr.. Hope
ordered his fine grey ridiug-horse sadded and led
to the door, and said jump this horse and
ride out to Suffers Fort; there is nothing there
very beautiful TO look at, but is something you
have not yet, and the ride will DO you good"
did so, neither OF US noticing the least indications
OF rain, and got most beautiful wetting before
reaching home which | remember being the
first shower Of rain i ever cav in California.
When | had changed my wet for dry clothing
and had rested little, Mr.. LamerouX Brought out
beautiful iipe watermelon TO treat with, though
my health Was so feeble that l dare rot eat only
enough Of it to know that it was a good one, and
the first evidence that had seen Of fruit grow
ing here from either vine tree. soon after
Sparards roasting green corn by building small fires
the plaza, ard also saw potatoes grown in yar
sections u the State.
l was in Marysville in May, 1851, and saw there
one Of the finest gardens Though not so great
rety), but the healthest color ard most luxurious
growth that ever before had seen anywhere, and in
ten minutes conversation with the owner of the
garden silently but forcibly became convinced that
must entirety ignore the " seed time and harvest
Of the cold frozen aud snowy regions OF the Eastern
States, and scientifically determine the exact adapt
ability of " seed tims and harvest" OF each separate
cereal, vegetable and fruit to this lovely, semi
heavenly climate and say eifectuaiy Gnd in thunder
zones, to the rushing Winds the raging torrents and
drowning floods OF this sacred golden vale, " Hith
erto shalt tsou come but further, and here shall
thy proud waves be stayed Then can we have the
most prolific and every way copgenial agricultural
State in the UGion, and feariessly sit under our
vine and fig tree, with none to make us af aid"
All the bssu closing scenes Of this delightful view
have ever seen beautiful ly blooming before me,
Through thousands OF fevered days and seepess
nights have | been in over anxious torture ever
since, 10 find the proper road leading 10 them.
But since my present sickness l am permitted
to find the ucmistaka6le line Of the golden road
plainly marked out, & ttering with diamonds, and
lined with happy homes, governed by hearts painting
for moral purity and refinement, with elevated hope,
and other faculties beamin9 with generous IN ELI
gence ard science all along the road leading to the
full enjoyment Of all the bissful scenes referred to-
and am compelled to shout " Eureka"
The first great milestone in this wonderful golden
road, of easy and happy grade, is the cutting down
and iull control of Hogs Back. The second is the
ccmpressibility OF water and the incompressbiity
OF debris The third great mile stone is turning the
American river at AuIns slough, increasing its
length about four miles, and dischsrging it into the
Sacramento little below Freeport The fourth
great milestone is the level uniform grade OF
twenty four feet, above the present low-water mark
"
der all circumstances. The hf,h and last great mile /
stone is the turning of the Sacramento river at Red
Bluff, through the Montezuma Hills which will rem
der it positively impossible for the Sacramento val
ley ever to be flooded again.
There has in thirty two years, to my certain
knowledge been a fall of water the east side OF
the Sacramento river, which with the proposed i'm
proved facilities for sending rain storms in from
three to five days in straight shute out OF the val
ley, onefourth enough TO overtop twenty four foot
levee, with the Sacramento turned at Red Bluff
and all the water from the great western water
shed, the great Coast Range mountains, turned with
it and all sent Immediately straight through the
Montezuma bills. | repeat that there has not been |
at any time for thirty-two years water enough
to fourth overtcp such levees, and experience
reason, and philosophy teach that there never
can be.
believe that when the foods cease, and our val |
ley to be an inland sea OF fresh water every
few years, to be evaporated and condensed into |
showers that descend when don't need them, and |
then blown in every direction from us when we do |
need them, will De changed by these proposed nat |
ura and artificial changes, ana that the " former |
and the Latter rains IN their season, viii be COM
PEELED TO fall more regularly in the spring and fall,
so that we may better know how much we can de.
pend upon them But they can never fall |
regularly in the summer unless the valley |
is raised up to a level with the mountains, or
the latter are torn down to level with the valley.
People may boast OF the beauties and loneliness OF
an Italian climate so much celebrated in story ard
in song, OF sunny France, OF charming Ceylon OF
the bamy isles Of the Indies, and as many @, her
GASES in the desert (f may thus express it),
as they please, and they may search all the CONT
nents that the sun ever or set upon, and they
cannot find country OF this extent congenia in so
many respects for the common laborer, the
chanic, the merchant, the banker the student, the
professor or the wealthy man of leisure, as this
whole semi paradisical Golden State will be when
the floods conquered, and when journalistic and
other literature, SCIENCE and the arts have time
file off and polish some OF Natures roughest cor
ners."
wrote this last extract for the purpose of trying
to influence a heavy money loaner OF my aequeint
ance in Ohio to make an investment here, snd give
me charge Of it. reserving to himself the privilege OF
taking possession whenever his interests might
to requireit. But as Eureka" had not then fur
uished me with the plainly arSed-out golden road,
spar king with diamonds, leading directly to the
sem. paradise had been describing did not sue
coed in obtaining the money. The consequence is
that each Of us i've millions poorer to-day
than either of us need to be.
AS did not succeed in raising the money, and as
the firm Of Hope LamerouX had moved their
store to Colusa, and being invited BY that good
and ever to be lamented citizen Samuel Rich (whose
most excellent widow and family now live but five
or six miles southeast OF the city, to partnership
with him in the business, [ OF course gladly
accepted, and he, not being confined to idea
alone, but could philosophicaly handle several at
once fully agreed with me in the future agricultural
destinies of the State, and having accumulated all
the evidence required, we both securet farms, ana
he had the wisdom to keep his but sold mine. We