Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-01
IMMIGRATION WORK.
SOME INTERESTING DATA AND
SUGGESTIONS
From 1. n. Hoag, Commissioner of
immigration for California, as
Result OF His Experience.


and which contains many timely and yalu-
able suggestions upon the subject Just
taken in hand by said Association and the
several county auxiliary societies:
CHICAGO H., October q, 1884.
N d. Rideom, Esq, President n. G. J.
Associuttos.-DEAR SIR: | have watched
with a great deal of interest the successful
organization of your Association. 1t is
move in the right direction, inaugu-
rated none too soon, but still in good
time. The possible benefits your Ass0cia-
ton may confer on that section ofthe State
cannot be measured or anticipated at this
time During my work here for the year
and q half the importance-yes, the neces-
sity-Of such organizations, covering differ
ent sections of the State, has been con-
slant experience. Practical questions from
practical men relating to practical subjects
and asked in reference to particular dis
triCts and counties have been constantly
pouring in upon me. They have related
not alone to one section or county, but to
every section and county. To answer all
these questions intelligently and salts
tact0rily would require a more intimate
knowledge of our wonderful and half-de-
veloped State than any one man, however
Intelligent and well-iniormed, can be ex-
pected to possess These questions can best
be answered by people residing in and who
are especially well-informed in regard to
the several Sc tons in which they reside
Your Association, having branches in the
several counties of the district covered by
H. is PARTICULAR calculated to accumulate
the necessary information with which to
answer all questions in regard to any part
OF the district. This | understand to be
one of the primary objects of the Associa-
ton, and the object to which the Associa-
ton will first address its efforts
Understanding this to be the starting
point, permit me to say that my experience
here suggests as of first Importance that
the climate Of northern California should
be thoroughly Investigated and illustrated.
The Importance of this branch of the subject
Is emphasized from the fact that the great
and moving motive of the people on this
side the continent, in changing their homes,
is TO secure a change OF climate. They
have become tired of a climate that breeds
billiards in winter and cyclones in sum
mer and disease to man the season through
They want to 90 where they will find
climate at once mild and conducive to
health The climate of northern Califor-
MIA is very generally and almost univer-
sally Inexperienced by people here who
are making inquiries about the country.
The general impression is that it is but
little improvement over the climate of the
Northern States on this side the Rocky
mountains
When You tell the people here that good
oranges are successfully produced in the
open air in all the interior counties north
of San Francisco, and especially in the
counties along the foothills of the Sierra
mountains they look at You with degree
of incredulity bordering ON absolute dis
belize.
The most universal impression here is
that southern California embraces all there
is in the climate of the State that Is par
ticularly valuable for the health of man or
the growth OF vegetation. Northern Cali
iornia IS not even regarded generally rs
good fruit-growing section.
To correct this very general and almost
universal misrepresentation in the East, as
to the climate Of northern California
should be the very first object to which
the Association should address its efforts
Let facts be shown by the lirures on the
Thermometer wherever they have been
recorded
Let illustrations be drawn from the
growth Of yegetatiOu-thc trees, the
grasses the grains. Let the fruits of that
section be illustrated. Let the points at
which semi-tropical fruits are grown he
located and enumerated Bring out promi-
nentiy by Illustrations the orange and olive
groves OF Butte, Placer, FL Dorado, Sacra-
mentO and Huba counties. Show the time
of ripcning Of vegetables and fruits in So
lano, Ioi0, Placer. rs compared with other
localities that claim 4 milder climate.
Compare the statistics OF health with
those of other counties, and show people
here aDd everywhere that northern Cali
i0rnia stands second to no other sec
ton or State in the world As to desira-
bleness Of climate. Having thoroughly
illustrated the subject of climate and
fixed the status of northern California in
this particular. the other questions of soil,
productions, prices Of land, markets, trans
portation, and The general opportunities OF
making homes and business, will he COM
paratiyeiy easy.
Next 70 gathering the materials for
thorough representation of the country
and Che editing OF the work, comes the
form and manner OF the publication
For obvious reasons it should be gotten mp
man attractive form and style, and should
be well illustrated. The whole section
should be embraced in one pamphlet or vol
ume. but the counties should each be given
separate description and enumeration of its
peculiar advantages and leading products
4 well-gotten-up pamphlet will be pre-
served and loaned and read by many, while
nero slips or sheets will soon find their
way into the litter or waste baskets The
prime object-to bring northern California
TO the front-should not he overlooked.
and the reader should be thoroughly inn
pressed that it is that section Of the State
he is studying.
The work should be published in such
Numbers that II can be distributed all over
the country here, for people very gen
orally decide before they start As 70 what
section Of the State they are going Up
to this time | have had nothing for dis
tribGtiou pertaining especially to the
northern section Of the State except 4 few
copies Of pamphlet on Tchama county,
gotten up by real estate firnl-a private
enterprise. I have been in need of Just
such a publication, Us suppose your AsSo-
citation intends 10 prepare, very much, and
can use large number Of them to good
advantage
let me say here that while every sec
ton Of the State should put It's hes; foot
forward 10 make good show at New Or
leans, II should no; he forgotten that nine
tenths, and ! think niueteen-twcatieths Of
the people who 90 TO California 70 settle,
20 from The Northern States, and that it IS
in this section that money spent in aGyer-
tising will pay the surest and biggest in
terest. The Southern States are among
our strongest competitors for the people
who arc looking around for new homes.
The greatest number we get from the
South are those who have gone there from
the North and have become dissatisfied.
Next To advertising, the country abroad
your Association will find that locating
hem satisfactorily will be in order of i'm
portance. And in this particular the
manner Of your organization is most for
tunate. 1t exactly meets r want have
greatly felt here.
have numerous applications from peo-
pie who are going to the State fer letters
of introduction to some one in such and
such county who Will assist them in
finding desirable lands and who win pro-
tect them from the greed of sha:pers, or
people who would take advantage Of their
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