Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-25

fishing the facts abroad relative to the soil.
climate and general desirability of central
California, and its capacity for supporting
a million people or more. Such a docu-
ment, he added, he would do his best to
have widely distributed. The company he
represented was doing great deal of such
advertising, but obviously special sections
desiring special presentation could with
better grace present their own claims.
Here now appears the wit of the Solano
paper. Hear it
We would like TO know the motive of the Central
Pacific Railroad when they endeavor to get a num-
Der of counties to join and issue pamphlet for dis
tributiOn upon their trains and cities which, by
their roads, are connected with the advertised dis
tricts. This seems to US to be scheme upon the
part of the railroad company to get the people of
this section Of the State to advertise, thereby in
ducing travel and consequently turning ticket
money into the railroads till.
The farsightedness of that paper is some.
thing to command admiration. 1t certainly
has struck the nail on the head. 1t has
" a railroad scheme" as it terms it, by the
throat. It is entirely probable that the
railroad company has a selfish interest at
the bottom of its "scheme." 1t is fort
innate for California that it has. Selfish
ness is in the mass of all substructures it
is the great motor of progress. We all
wish California prosperity, but before Cal
ifornia we desire to be personally prosper
Gus. We doubt if even the philanthropy
and benevolence OF the Solano paper rises
to such a hight, and is so broad, that in de-
string the advancement of Solano county
it does not hope fer and expect its own
prosperity to be fostered and augmented.
The Republican adds to its exposure of
this " railroad scheme " the thought that
what the company seems to bs after,
judging from Mr.. Hoag's statement, is
that, by thus advertising, many people
will come here to invest their money IN
homes, land will advance in price, farms
will be subdivided and sold, while the
company Will hold on to al it has until the
land has reached price commemorate
with the oompany's ayarice." 1t would be
interesting to know from what source this
suspicion was drawn, in the face of the
fact that the railroad people have been dis
posing of their lands with unsxampled
ragldity; are using every possible exertion
to sell them to men who will upbuild
homes have reduced prices steadily and
expended large sums in the way OF invit.
ing purchasers and, in fact, have disposed
of the great mass of the grant lands. The
truth is, the interest of railroads lies not
so much IN selling lands as in making
lands productive, and settling upon them
a large population, that there may be pas
sengers to ride in the coaches and freight
to be carried in the box cars. All the
State has been anxious for such consum-
metion-even the most orthodox anti.
railroad man has joined with the railroads
in this desire. Perhaps even so narrow an
intelligence ss that OF our Solano neighbor
may be able 20 comprehend these facts.
1t is perfectly evident that document
emauating from the Board of Trade of Sac
ramento and the representative citizens of
YoIo, Amador, San Joaquin, Placer and
FL Dorado viii be more forcible and
effective than if promulgated by a regular
railroad immigration agent. Solano needs
population as badly as her sister counties,
but if the Republican speaks for her, and
she folds her hands and waits for another
TO do the work she should herself accom-.
plish, she will not deserve prosperity and
increase. But we apprehend that no such
spirit snimates the people Of Solano. They
are of central California, their interests are
common with Sacramento and Yolo, aud
they should and will pail together despite
this new railroad scheme discovery by
one of their local papers.