Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-03

compelled to house his stock against long
winters that he will never be compelled TO
clear his way to barn or house through the
snow; that his soil shall
NEVER FREEZE;
That his storehouse need never te banked
CD to insure due warmth TO his reserve of
provisions; that there shall be no week in
the whole year that some growth useful to
his household and profitable to his purse
shall not be prospecting on his land; that
there shall be no day in the round year
when he may not do labor upon the soil
with view to charging its capacity; that
no need shall be upon him to construct
weather-proof granaries; that he may
pluck in his dooryard every day in the
year bouquet of flowers to adorn his din
ner table; thatin no hour ofall the year shall
his wells freeze or his pipes refuse to con-
yey water to his stock or his household /;
that his lowlands and moist lands or his
uplands under irrigation shall produce him
three alfalfa hay crops at least in the year.
and frequently yield him four cuttings /;
that on his Indiana lands he may pluck
oranges from trees loaded at Christmas,
or bending to the earth with ripe fruit in
May: that he shall be able to raise the fig,
lemon, olive, prune, date, pomegranate and
| orange in the open air, without shelter of
any kind, and with only remote and very
| infrequent danger of losing the crop from
any cause; assure him that tornadoes, cy-
clones and billiards are unknown to his
section: assure him that his cattle shall in
crease in the field without concern on his
part regarding their shelter from severity
of weather; assure him that his Indiana
land shall produce such variety of crops as
his most e1trayagant taste or exacting
judgment nay demand; give him assur-
ance that vegetable product shall all the
year round, in some form, be taken from
the soil, rather tt an the CELLAR and the
storehouse; give him all these, and many
other assurances like those recited in this
| long sentence, and then ask him TO fix the
value upon his Indiana lands, and compare
! that with the demands for similar property
| as to soil i'll California, and it will be dis
closed that the price OF the California land
| falls immeasurably below the exaction of
the Indianian for his farm. And this
coMPARATTrE PIcTURING,
By way ofillustratien, is no fiorid coloring.
| but the soberest of fact, of which any intel
| ligent observer may convince himself if
| he is open to the Usual proofs that convict
| men of the truth. The fact is, as dis
| tiuguished writer has said, :" by the variety,
! multitude and wealth of her resources for
agricultural, mining, fishing, viticultEral
and manufacturing production =; by the
geniality of her climate, the advantages of
! her commercial position and her large
area, California is well-ftted to play an
imperial part in history The abundance
of her gold was one of the wonders of the
world her placers had scarcely reached
the climax of their productiveness when
her orchards. vineyards and gardens chal-
lenged comparison with anything to be
| seen in France or Italy. The climate near
| the ocean is unequaled for the small range
of temperature between midsummer and
midwinter; equally free from the cold that
benumbs or the heat that debilitates A
strong trade wind, with temperature that
does not vary much from 55o, blows from
the ocean nearly every summer day, its
chilliness stimulating the worker to activ-
| ity, and driving the idler to wear heavy
wooden clothing. Before it has gone far
| inland, the breeze is warmed by the radia-
ton of the earth an hours Journey is suf-
ficient to obtain a change of 100 mean tenn
perature of July without difference in ele-
walton. The State has an excellent
COMMERCIAL SITUATION.
| Her northern limit is near the latitude OF
Boston; her southern near that of Savannah.
Mexico has few bays, inlets or islands; her
coast bends to the eastward, so much so
that Tehuantepec and Guaymas are about
as far from Australia, and from most of
the Micronesian Islands in the South Pa
cifc, as is San Francisco. The poverty OF
the western coast of our sister republic in
maritime advantages gives greater value
to the California harbors, which, though
not numerous, are excellent" and at least
two of them are not surpassed for capacity
and safety in all the world.
California has an area of los, 800 square
miles, and population of about million
people, or only about six to thesquar mile
whereas Illinois has So, Pennsylvania 81
New York los, Indiana 50, and Ohio 81
The length of her coast is 735 miles, and o
the shore line 1,097 miles. There are abou
100000 square miles of tillable soil on tbs
Pacific slope, after making due allowance
for all that may be considered worthless fol
any cause whatever, and fully 100000
square miles of forests. OF these factors Of
the coast California has by far the majority
of the choice soil, while the Puget Sound sec,
ton has the choice probably Of commercial
timber
IN PRECIOUS METALS,
California is unquestionably the richest
part of our national domain. In the pro
duction of wine it is not even riYalled by
any part of the continent, and the promise
is that California vineyards will surpass il
/, productive capacity all others. We boas
one of the chief cities of the Union as oul
! commercial capital, and the very fact O
its rapid and permanent growth is strong
. evidence of the verify of all the claim:
, made for the State. We have two chic
/, navigable streams penetrating the two
chief valleys of the State. Both of thest
, debouch into an inland bay, which dis
| PhqrrnQ fbrOnOh o nf ,fav
and offers the only water way from thu
ocean or communication with the interior
of the State. These straits are three
fourths of a mile wide, and always main
tain deep water for sea-going vessels, though
nearly twenty-five miles inland from the
Golden Gate, the pass through which com
merce flows to and from the Commercial
metropolis, San Francisco This great city
is therefore accessible from the main pro
ducing sections of the State by inlanc
waterways, from the coast counties on the
north and the south by coast nRviga
ton, and from the south, and great dea
of the interior by rail routes This con
venieEoesof access gives her, as well as the
producers OF the State, great advantages.
SACRAMENTO
Is in the heart of the State; is also a market
of large importance by reason of its init
| T61l WIFI IllUSI I'll the
State, and its location upon the chief nav.
igable stream. 1t is admirably situated as
La commercial center and affords the pro.
ducer Of the interior special. advantages
upon which the RECORD UNION has en-
larged in a distinct article in this series OF
papers or California. The Sacramento
river drains the great Sacramento valley
from the north, and the San Joaquin the
great San Joaquin valley on the south, and
these two drain-ways, as we have said, con-
verge in the very waist of the State, and
find their outlet in the Bay of Suisun
The Coast Range lies westerly. O.
course, of these rivers and valleys, and the
loftier mountains. the Sierra Neyadas, on
the east The whole valley area of the
State may thus be said to be landlocked
land when the trade winds referred to are
taken into account, and the effects of the
ocean currents upon the temperature are
lconsldered, the intelligent visitor will not
be at loss TO account for the equability oil
our climate or the variety of it within the
degrees of equsbility. The northern of the
two great valleys, TIE Sacramento, is some
$50 miles in length, with an ave-zre width
of forty miles Comparatively Isle of the
lsoil.needs irrigation s2nd none of il. to any
IsnaEked degree, hiss been put under it. The
Sow lends, or bottoms along the riyer. ara
sabieet to overhows that necessitate some
lszeeipg and reclamation. The ag-icult
urai capabilities of thesTalley, if recited in
detail, 8ould extend this article beyond al
lotted limits, and read sc like a fairy tall