Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-19
pENRyN CORRESPONDENCE.
Fruit Interests and Fruit Lands-Gen-
eraI Notes About Town.

J HIuh ihttrestS anu FRUIT LdndS-Gen-
/ eraI Notes About Town.
EDS. RECORD UNION The fruit season in
this SECTION, as well, perhaps, rs of the
greater part of the State is mainly over.
II there has been failure in any sense it
! is such as viii result IN decided benefit in
the immediate future, for it has taught a
lesson that must and will be pondered
until remedy has been found. All are
agreed thatin the future fruit must be put
into the market by the producer himself
and not allowed to pass through the hands
of two or three middleunen before il reaches
the hands Of the consumer.
This is OF the first importance. for almost
the whole question hangs upon the price
the consumer pays fer the fruit in the East
for the East is to be the market for eight
tenths of all the fruit that will be produced
in California. With reasonable prices there
this entire State cannot produce sufficient
fruit to supply the great market east of tbe
Rockies The fruit-erower. then, in order
to insure that market. must see to II that
his truit IS sofa there at fair rates. 7 firmly
believe that the fruit interests of this State
is d sstiEed to be the great Industry IF The
Pacific coast, and that within the next six
years
1t Will not be a question of how many
cars will be shipped per day. but how MANI
trains. Fruit-growers are beginning to I'M
der5tand this, and more, they realize that
this great industry must be managed and
controlled by themselves. That much. |
think, Is already settled, and the only cues
ton is as TO the means of ACCOMPLISHING il
There must be a unity of purpose and har-
mony, whatever the means Co-oDeration
and incorporation are both named. | in
cline to the latter, because | think it can
DE managed with. less friction. But what
ever method may be adopted the fruit
grower must hold to the controlling power
We cannot expect perfect work at first
There Will be faults and PERHAPS abuses
but after awhile. with an intelligent under
standing OF what is needed. the wrongs will
be righted and the errors and abuses
guarded against. | ain the more confident
of this because there is no industry upon
this coast that has dcyeloped higher order
ofintelligence than the fruit business.
Within the next five years | am conf
dent every available foot of land within
this warm belt, at least, will be under cul-
tlvatlon and the production of fruit in
creased tenGold. This is not exaggeration.
California fruit can be put into the Eastern
market at from one month to six weeks
Z,
such quality aad variety as to DEFY compe-
ttion in any other part of the United
States. And there need beno fear of over
production. All that is required is the best
quality OF fruit and reasonable prices
This has been & remarkable season. ana
iruit-groWefs have been startled ut the con-
dition of things which have existed but it
has taught them lesson OF the utmost
Importance, and one they will not be
slow to profit by. Never before have
they had as clear perception
of whatwas needed.
Land can be had at present here at very
reasonable rates, and probably no portion
OF the State offers land better adapted to
greater variety of fruit or of better quality,
or that can place it III the market earlier
IN the season. ! think there will be much
activity here tins winter i'll clearing land
and planting fruit trees
The public school opened here on Mon
day, the 18th inst, with Mr.. r. L. Herbert
as Principal and Miss Lizzie McCarty as
sistant. Mr. H. has taught several terms
ut this place and Is an able and successful
teacher.
see in The reports Of the exhibits at the
state Fair one enterprising house is con-
trasting some of the different trades and
industries of the past and present, with
active workers representing the old and
new. 1t is q happy thought, and while
we are speaking OF teaching it would
not be less interesting to a great many to
see the school-rOOm studies and methods
OF teaching of the present contested With
the old. How many still living can look
back in memory to the little log school |
house where the inevitable three RS "
were taught and when about the only
school apparatus seen was the long switch |
IN the corner? There was the broad fire
place, and perhaps smoky chimney, while !
the scraping of slate-pencils mingled with |
the cracking of consuming walnut logs. !
Just how much more is accomplished |
now than then III the schools will leave for
each indidual to decide for himself, but the !
contrast Is almost as great as in the trades |
One of our best citizens and an old resi- |
dent has just left 10 visit the town of his |
childhood and an aged mother, who is ill |
at Providence, L. /. When twenty wears
OF age he left home to remain two years, |
but almost forty have passed with |
out sight OF his mothers |
face. She secs him only rs a |
boy. and when awhile haired |
man of almost sixty presents himself be |
fore her. who can convince hcr he IS indeed |
the boy who went out from her root two |
score years ago. California has much to /
answer Tor in causing SO many of these !
long separations. WHAT volumes of I
unwri;tCn history are all about us. How |
many anxious hearts are still waiting as |
they have waited these thirty years or !
more for loved ones 10 come who will !
never come.
Those who have visited The State Fair |
speak in warm terms of the exhibit |
Unfortunately the choicest fruit was gone |
before the fair began. though the fruit |
display IS said to be very crcditable Still |
the exhibit Of fruits and vegetables at the |
State Fair never fully shows what the State |
IS capable OF producing because compare |
lively few OF the farmers take part in the |
exhibits. PARIS.