Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-27
DELIGHTED WITH CALIFORNIA.
What Wisconsin Farmer Thinks of a
Sacramento Winter

In conversation with a reporter yester-
day, Dr. Latham, Secretary of the Immi-
grafton Association of Northern California,
said the association is doing more toward
| finding homes for the immigrant at this
time, than at any previous date since its
organization. He says he has received dur
! ing the past few weeks a large number of
letters from scandinavian people. who are
now residents of Minnesota. One colony
consisting of one hundred and twenty-five
| families, are DESTROYS of locating some
where in middle or northern California
| They live in the neighborhood of Min
neapolis, have their own schools
churches, newspaper, etc. A few days
ago their agent a very intelligent
gentleman, arrived in this city and imme-
diately called upon DR.. Latham. After
short conversation in the office the doctor
took him around the city, and showed him
the beautiful grass plats, flower gardens
orange, lemon and persimmon trees. loaded
with yellow delicious fruits tropical plants
| growing luxuriantly, and the Minnesota
| farmer was, to use a California expression
| paralyzed. lie had never seen citrus fruits
growing, and Sacramento's wealth of flow
ers seemed to him to be so much out of sea-
son that he could hardly believe his ewes.
He said: " Doctor, | have only been in
J California half day. but I have seen
enough in those few hours TO convince me
that California is the paradise we long have
sought, and you have not dogs enough in
! the State to drive me out | have
| Just left country covered deep with a
weary waste OF snow, not sign of vegeta-
| ton is to be seen, and we are lust at the
| beginning of weary six-months winter
Here, you, to all appearances, are enjoying
the beginning of spring; the heritage will
soon be sufficient to feed your stock, while
with u.s. our beasts for many months must
be fed from the garnered stores in our
barns. Here you say this is a disagreea-
| bic day. There, in Wisconsin, this would
pass for May morning. If | could pick
up one Of your beautiful yards, with its
wealth of grasses, flowers, orange trees
| laden with their golden fruits, and set it
down in Minneapolis, and say to the peo-
| pie of that snow-covered city this is an
| average of the grass plots in Sacramento. do
you know what they would say? Well.
| they would not believe it. They would
say: You cannot make US believe anv
such statements. You got that out of a
hot-house.' | shall truthfully and faith
fully describe all | have seen here, and
what now expect to see elsewhere in my
| correspondence to the Scandinavian paDers
| in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chicago. Nv
! people are DESTROYS of locating near each
other, all in one county, if possible They
would like to secure a large arabic tract
and cut it up into small holdings"
| DR.. Latham says he has many inquiries
| from Iowa, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois.
A colony IN Rockford Illinois, is ready to
come just as soon as they can find suita-
| BILE location Those who have come out as
agents state, and from letters received from
parties in the East, it is ascertained that
this fall and winter has been good time
for the disposition of real estate there, and
many have sold their farms with The in
tention of coming to California in the
spring. One gentleman says the people in
Dakota never tire of talking about the
GLORIOUS climate of California" He
added that he thought they were justified
in doing so, for two winters ago eighty-two
persons were frozen to death in one county
in that Territory