Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-12
A GLANCE At CALIFORNIA.
IT'S ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANT-
AGES-PLAIN FACTS.
MATTERS OF GREAT INTEREST
Area, Needs, Claims, Promise, Gil
mate, Soil Product and Sta
tistics of California.

mate, Soil Product and Sta
tistics of California.
California is at this time extending an in
vitation to desirable people to come and
make their homes mere. 1t is fully real
lied by our people that when the stranger
reads articles descriptive OF the advantages
of this State, he will Judge that the writers
present them in the best possible light.
We, however, cali his attention to the fact,
that he can easily verify by observation
and inquiry whether there is exaggerauon
or concealment of any material facts. In
all that the RECORD Z MON has said, or will
say Of the desirability of this State for the
homeseeker, it has been, and will be, ex-
ceedingly cautious 10 make no state
ment that cannot be easily verified
We have not and will not make any con-
cealments as to disadvantages, though west
that the objections to California are fewer
than to any other locality within our
knowledge, on the face of the globe. We
frankly say to the newly arrived that we
need population. That we have the area,
productive capacity and ability for popu.
lation Of several millions, whereas, in fact,
we have, owing to our remoteness and
youth, but about one million in the State,
resident, including the Chinese. The full
possibilities of this State can be developed
only by laboring population-laboring
eithvrin commercial pursuits, in manufact-
ures, or in tilling the soil, or in the invest
ment and reproduction of capital as the re-
ward of thrift and economy. We prefer to
name at the outset what
THE OBJECTIONS
To the State are, that the reader may have
them in mind as he proceeds. The first is
the sparsely settled condition of the coun-
try. This we are now seeking to obviate
in all legitimate ways. In the past two
years we have made such advancement in
this direction that the promise is within
the next decade the State will have
very nearly received the quota of
people necessary to her perfect deyel-
opment The second is our remote
ness from the great markets of the world
This is, however, being eliminated by the
rapid and multiplying methods of commu-
nicatlon, and by the opening up of an area
of growing trade to the westward in the
Orient and the islands of the Pacific More
over, our products are of such character,
and so advanced as regards seasons, that
we ind q ready market, even though dis
tant, for much OF our products. Thus, in
fruit growing, one of the chief industries
of the coast we reach Eastern markets
with our supplies far in advance of any
other producers, and Inequality and the va
riety of our product III this line commands
for our production exceptionally good
prices, and creates a demand that no other
supply can so well ill. Third-There are
sections Of the State were
IRRIGATION
Is felt to be essential. But the public ao-
tivihes in filing this need give promise
that very soon, indeed. to a large extent,
this factor viii be satisfied Irrigation
works Of great magnitude are now being
constructed, and policy WILDE adopted
by the State that viii insure The applica-
ton of water wherever needed. But irri-
cation is the need OF only portion of our
territory. Outside of such areas we have
capacity for an immense population. For
instance in the north part of the State, all
that region lying northward of the center
OF the State, there IS never entertained
fear Of drought, and there is such pre-
cipitation that some measure of yield is as
sured year in and year out. FouTth-There
IS in our midst people filling very largely
the labor field, with whom the white labor
er-cannot successfully compete without such
manner Of domestic economy as is unnat-
Ural to and undesirable in the representa-
tive American citizen. This evil. however
Is already under restriction, and the coun-
Try IS alive to the necessity of such protect
i've regulations as will forever prevent it
assuming greater proportions, and as will
reduce the present menace to nominal one.
IN HORTICULTURE
we are troubled with the same insect pests
that are common to the whole country, and
from which no part of it is wholly
free But we are taking such preventive
measures as have greatly mitgated this
evil, and give promise of its speedy extinc-
ton. Fifth-At rare intervals we have
slight tremors Of the earth, but these are
so infrequent, so harmless, that the people
entertain neither thought nor fear con-
corning them. The geological formation
OF the country forbids the idea that in this
respect there can ever occur here any in
jury worth the mention. And here we
may remark, that not so much damage has
been done by earthquakes in all the history
of the territory now embraced within State
lines. as results from one ordinary gale in
the West, an ordinary cold snap at the
East or the high tides and abnormal rain
fall and river flooding in 4 single day in the
States east of the Missouri river. These are
all the objections that can nationally be
raised to the State, by any thoughtful
man or woman who contemplates founding
q home here. Now as 10
THE CLAIMS WE ADVANCE.
n preceding articles we have set forth the
educational advantages of the State, and
these. we venture the assertion are on
more liberal basis than those of any other
State in the Union, though educational in
stitutons are in other States more nu-
merous. We invite attention to the article
on that subject, in which We carefully, and
in detail, laid bare the whole educational
scheme of California. We have shown,
also, that in the matter OF healthful climate
there is no superior to that of California,
and that her multitude of healing springs,
her sanitariums. and the high state of
health shown by the statistics of the State
Board of Health, place this State in the
front rank. Extending, as the State does,
along q coast warmed by the Japanese cur
rent divided longitudinally by lofty ranges
of mountains with 200 miles of salubrious
sea coast upon the most pacific of all oceans,
with warm valleys made productive by the
richest of soils, with an equable temperature,
with total absence Of any thing that by
the Eastern visitor would be esteemed a
storm, without freezing times, or snow, or
ice, with occasional and comparatively
harmless frosts and those confined to mar
row sections, California presents attractions
in the matter of climate that are simply
unequaled in any part of the national do
main. 1t is possible for the visitor to suit
himself with
ANY KIND OF MILD CLIMATE
In California that he may desire, from
bracing soft sea breezes and invigorating sa-
line atmosphere to warm and cleudless
skies in the valleys; from the even temper
AZURE that seldom varies from sixty-f1ve TO
seventy degrees, TO the warm valleys where
the thermometer attains the nineties, but
where. the air being dry, the heat is not felt
as it would be at eighty at any point east of
the Missouri from lowlands.to attitudes of
any degree up to seven Thousand and ten
fhnnsnna feat. from mountain TO Main