Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-04
GOOD WORDS FaoM SHASTA.
Beneficial Influences from the Citrns Fai
and Permanent Exhibit.

Beneficial Influences from the Cffrns air
and Permanent Exhibit.
The Anderson Enterprise has the follow
ing well-timed remarks:
The establishment of Citrus Fair as a
permanent organization is move in the
right direction and will do more towards
inducing immigration than the distribution
of any pen picture however graphically
painted. Circulars have been scattered
broad cast from Maine to the Pacific, and
inspired by the call settlers have come.
The termination OF their travel and re-
search, with reference to ultimate settle
ment, has, in the past, been lower and Cen
trail California, hence these sections to-day
bear the impress of beauty, bestowed by
wealth, artistic taste and labor combined.
Indeed a traveller coming from the SHOWS
of the interior and Eastern States to a realm
of exotic beauty cannot but feel that they
have so far as the world of nature is con-
cerned, made speedy transit into a para
disc.
Such were the feelings of the writer who
left the chill, deeply frozen climate of the
North on the Goth day oialast February, the
wind blowing ice, hail and snow all in a
breath, and arrived in southern California
FIVE days thereafter to find the door yards
and winter gardens of even the poorest
classes, clothed with all the gay laughing
bloom of an Ohio June. Just here inclina-
ton and innate love of the beautiful would
have led US to stay our pilgrimage, but
desire TO see some friends of I'VE olden
time brought US to Shasta. The beauty
OF the scenery, and healthful inauguration
of the climate has enchanted us permanent
settlers here. A further inquiry, ard more
intimate knowledge of the capabilities of
this county only Undue, us to feel more
fully each day the wisdom of our choice.
Last Saturday we were shown by the
gentlemanly manager of the Redding ex-
hibit fine collection of choice fruits, veg
etables and also cereals, finer than we have
ever seen grown anywhere-all the prod
ucts of Shasta county.
Well might the excursionist to whom
this rare exhibit was displayed in all its pri-
NAL beauty exclaim We could not have
believed had we not seen these beautiful
fruits, the rare qualities of your soil, SEEM
ingly so poor and arid in its nature in re-
atty needing but the awakening hand of
cultivation to give back in quick response
the most generous gifts to the assiduous
hand.who bestows upon it stirring CRATE
full culture. 1t is the province of Califor-
MIA TO become country OF gardeners and
the entire State a lovely garden, and
therein lies her wealth, boundless and in
exhaustible. Her waving fields of grain
are superior in quality and quantity to any
State in the Uunion, if we except some of
the northwestern plains, whose allali soil
quickens easily and generously to the rails
ing of cereals i but the wind-storm and
drought are always drawback to the final
perfection of their crops. Energy and en-
terprise has pushed to the great North
west and is working wonders, undismayed
by terrors of cyclone, prairie fires and all
the peculiar devastations to which the eli
mate is subject and to which our unrivaled
climate is and always will be stranger
Our need in Shasta county is wealth, in
dividual energy and many settlers, with
capacity for business to make of the county
all it may become. We need producers to
force wealth from the soil. We do not
speak antagonistically to mining interests
we have them with us, and will have them
on 10 the end of time. They will develop
wealth from the treasures of the mountain
hight and slopes and crush from its rock
bound home millions of gold. The inqui-
rers after hidden treasures are everywhere,
and do not require mineral exhibits of our
treasures to invitesthem. OF northern Cal
ifornia but little has been written, and that
little has not been widely diffused among
Eastern people, who are the class of set
tiers we would like to invite to home with
us-those who have means to invest and
energy to work out grand results from the
combination of soil and climate we possess.
We have now the offer to hold what may
be termed a standing Citrus and Vegetable
Fair to which you are invited to send, free
of cost, any and all fruits and other prod
ucts of our soil, to remain as permanent
exhibit for the benefit of the excursionists
who are to visit California this winter.
Let Anderson not be backward in getting
up and bringing forward her bountiful re-
serves.