Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-19
Editorial Extracts from the Sacramento
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sLICKENs KNOWN AS WARN, RICH SOIL"
February =, 1S7S.-"If any plan could
be devised by which the waters of the
Sacramento. at high flood, could be poured
for few years into the tule beds of Yolo
and Solano counties, 100000 acres of as
tine, lcorm, rich soil as lie out of doors
would be created on the tule swamps,
which, if protected from overflow, would
be worth $500 an acre.
ENRICHED BY MOUNTAIN SEDIMENT.
Sacramento ought to sit in the midst of
the best agricultural district in the State,
and she will one day be sitting in Just such
place but if the tule lands on the west were
allowed TO be enriched bg the sediment that
V0ufd De deposited thereon, If q large portion
of the Sacramento river was allowed to
revel over them in flood time for few
years, that suspicious day would be much
hastened. Why cannot such openings of
the Sacramento river bank, as would allow
the surplus waters to flow into the tules, be
provided for by legislation? More water
ways are needed in flood time The mount
aims or the waters therefrom must 90 to
the sea, and man should use them on their
passage for ms 'ceifore and aggrdadisement."
LAND WARMED WITH DEPOSIT FROM THE
TURBID WATERS.
February 4, 1S7S.-[Speaking of gardens
drowned out along the Sacramento river
" But with return of spring the waters will
subside and the Cinnamon will more than
make up the loss of present crop in the
richness Of The nert gro,c3, on land acar7a ,0iu
hedeposits of the tTbid ,UdterS"
THE LAND FATTENED BY sLIcKENs.
February 6. 1873" A flood wear is
always fat year in California, and with
out the Sacramento river being hiqh there
faf, lo Hood Tt, Al
needs recuperation, not by rest, but by
manure, and this food leW 50 fdttea Il as 10
keep IL rich through another decade. The
farmers houses are above the flood, their
live stock are safe, and, altogether, the good
that will be done by the flood in fllinq ND
tolc places and FArrENING THE SOIL generally
will SO far overweight the injuries done,
that 1t Is not hazardous to say that before
eight months passes nearly every land
owner in the district will admit that he has
been more benefited by the flood than he
has been injured by it. We look upon the
food as a fertilizer of the land. and if the
water shall not remain on the orchards till
the sun so warns It as to scald the roots,
but few orchards will be injured, while ali
the other iand, ouer chici the cater passes, icW
be rastiy benefited"
sIIcKENs "a WARM AND RICH Deposit"
ETC.
February 6, 1S7S.-"An opening of 500 to
500 feet in the bank for quarter to half, or
perhaps whole mile towards the tules, as
the case may be, might be sufficient to di-
rect the surplus water from the Sacramento
into these low lands; and once there it
would not only take care of itself, but it
would. IN few years, make these lands
among The richest and most desirable IN the
State, BY reason Of the lcdrm and rich deposits
~ pa,fII Ja,s.a y Il
or ten feet Of this neG and good soil should be
made, then it might be well to cut a canal
through that section of the country, in or
der that the lands might be cultivated.
What gorgeous alfalfa .tietdS such floods leottid
| make in-say five years The land then,
properly leyeed, and lying so adjacent to
Sacramento, would be worth 500 an acre"
FEETILIZING COLD BOTTOMS WITH RICH
FREIGHT OF sLIcKENs.
February 8, 1S7s.-[ Discussing the Yolo
canal project. -" For the present ii might
be sufficient to let the surplus waters of the
Feather and Sacramento rivers through the
west banks of the latter stream into the
tuie lands of Yolo, to fill up and fertilize
with their rich freight those cold and UNI
productive bottoms
RICH SEDIMENT OF THE MOUNTAINS.
February IL, 1875" 1t is true that the
breaking of leyees must inure individuals
for the time being, but in the long run the
inundate land is benefited more than its
| owners have been injured
T" The flood of waters, carrying on its
bosom the rich sediment Of the mountains.
has inundated orchards and ranches. The
usual inundation happened north of this
city, and an another one took place south,
which covers large space, and the ques-
| ton IN all these places is whether the dam
! age or the benefit will be the greater. All
that overlooked land from Il street to Free
port has already on ii lcedlth Of The finest seol-
in,e'a manure, ranging IA thickness from an
| inch 10 one and t,uo feet, in the immediate
vicinity of the break. When the water flows
oil, all the land ,cHl be richer and more nour-
| islieg than erer before, and if the water does
not remain On too long, until the sun shines
out warm and heats it, thus destroying or