Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-16

1901 Also new VINE all grown without
irrigation.
Charles Martell. Vacaville, three boxes of
Seeding oranges, without irrigation; some
OF the trees bore 600 oranges this year, and
were planted in 1878.
VIM. Baker, Putah creek, box each of
olives, soft-shell almonds, persimmons and
oranges, besides clusters
S. d. Baker, almonds and ounces.
w. j. Peasants, Pleasant valley, makes
a splendid display of Seeding and budded
oranges, placed in boxes and hanging in
clusters. Some of his oranges measure
twelve inches in circumference. Mr.. Pleas
ants has also an exhibit of Eastern persim-
MONS the only persimmon of this variety
in the hall but one, He has also one box
of extra sun-dried French prunes all grow
ing without irrigation.
Senator l.. w. Buck has fine display of
budded oranges. Some of the navel variety
measure fourteen inches in circumference
each, grown without irrigation.
w. Cantelow, Vacaville shows an orange
tree laden with ripe fruit, six years old, and
twelve feet high. He expects to
SEND IT TO THE CHICAGO EXHIBITION.
He has other exhibits of Seeding and bud
ded oranges, and of lemons. The Mediter-
ranean sweets he shows are notably fine
His Sicily lemons are best budded varieties
John II. Gardiner, of Rio Vista, shows a
lot of almonds, raisins and walnuts.
]. NJ. Peasants has two bottles of apple
brandy, two years old.
Nevada County.
Nevada county is mountain county, of
the Sierra range, with upper ranges of foot
hills. Her attitudes are from 500 to $500
feet. Her chief product has been mineral.
Only within brief time has attention been
given to horticulture and agriculture The
Nevada County Land and Improvement
Association has been the chief instrument
in awakening the people of that section to
the true and full possibilities of the county
and vicinity. The fact is that Nevada
county now
ENTERS THE LIST
OF fruit-growing counties. 1t is her first
exhibit at Citrus Fair, but success. The
exhibit is in charge of G. E. Brand, the ur-
bane Secretary of the Nevada County Land
and improvement Association, and was
gathered at very short notice from what
the fruit-growers CHANGED to have on hand
and was not saved in view of exhibition
However, the samples of oranges shown are
very fine. They were grown at an eleva-
ton of 1,600 feet, demonstrating the i'm
portant fact that this fruit can be success
fully grown at a very high altitude. Ne
vada county has a large acreage suitable
for orange growing, and will no doubt soon
rank among the foremost of orange-g growing
counties in the State. The exhibit of grapes,
nuts, apples, persimmons, ounces, etc.,
shows that the soil and climate of Nevada
county is particularly well adapted to fruit
growing. This fact, with home market and
cEeapness of the land, will attract a large
immigration.
We wish very much that we had the
space to go into detail as we should like
about the sermon preached by the choice
nut display of Felix Gillet, in the Nevada
exhibit. Mr.. Gillet has long stood the ad-
vocate of the interests of his county, and
done battle for the faith that there is
has proved it, too, by his steady industry
and the evidences of his works.
Where Mr.. Gillet's nursery is, near Ne
vada City, was, twenty years ago, barren
granite hill, used only for a public COM
mon. He was ridiculed for attempting to
grow anything upon it; now he has little
paradise of vines and nut and small-fruit
varieties upon it.
GRAPES-WINE- PEARS.
Nevada can produce fine grapes, wines of
high order, and for pears she has advan-
tages of many and peculiar kinds on which
we cannot now dwell. Her soil is under
lined by bedrock formation. Where gran
lite comes to the surface it is largely decom-
posed and mingled with alluvial soil, AID
is rich in elements needed by vines and
fruit trees. On the hillsides is fine loan
growing forest trees and chaparral in its
wild state. 1t is often tinged dull red by
the ferruginous ochre in it. 1t is admira-
bic when titled for fruit There are still
other varieties, and all more or less adapta-
bic to nut, vine and fruit culture.
THE CLIMATE
Of Nevada is not northern as generally
understood. The temperature is never so
low nor so high as to check labor. In
March, 1886, record officially kept showed
the minimum temperature to vary for the
so days from 20 to 430, or an average of
3510 Roses bloom every month in the
year in Grass Valley and Nevada City, the
two chief cities, the latter be-
ing the seat of county government
Strawberries and blackberries are also
picked up to December, and green veg,
etables are 10 be had from the soil of Ne
vada every day in the year. Nearly hall
the agricultural area of the county is known
as " the warm belt" so high is the winter
temperature. For healthfulness, no sec
| ton of the State surpasses Nevada county,
The atmosphere is bracing-inspiring in
deed-and rich in resinous aroma. With
rainfall it is blessed especially, averaging
for thirteen years last past 51.S0 inches pei
year. Yet
THE WATER
Conveyance and storage for mining gives
the county unsurpassed irrigation advanta.
ges, wherever it is desired to " force the
season." or hasten reclamation of sol
mined over and abandoned, or deemed
barren because of granitic character. The
reservoirs of the county store nearly 5000.
600, GEO cubic feet of water, and the main
bitches are over 600 miles in length and
cost over s., 600, 900. But irrigation, mark it
is not necessity in Nevada. Nevada claims
and with good grounds, to be essentially
the Bartlett pear belt of the country. Lands
in Nevada are low and easy to be had
Land to be cleared is, of course, more diff.
cult TO be put in shape than land in the
valley, but it does not call for Sc
much original capital. Land is cheap
in her now, but as the county
is now progressing it will soon be up in the
a big figures No one is more sincerely
gratifed to witness the promise of triumph
in soil-culture in Nevada than the man OF
the valley who has felt it to be his duty to
contest Nevada's right to mine in partic.
ular way. She has vast resources in her
soil, she is developing them and proving
that she has fine. fertile, enduring lands,
that yield to culture abundant harvest, and
in climate of the very best kind.
THE EXHIBITS
OF Nevada are grapes. almonds, oranges,
persimmons, raisins, ounces. corn and
olives H. A. Messenger, Valley Spring,
shows some of the finest ounces we have
ever seen or heard of.
]. HI. Kuhlman, French Corral, Seeding
oranges, elevation 1,6O0 feet. J. D. Camp
bell French Corral, seeding oranges, ele-
walton 800 feet. J. Cole, Bridgeport, seed
ling oranges. elevation L 100 feet. Samuel
Allison, Nevada City, japanese persim-
mons. elevation $500 feet. J. H. Nile,
Rough and Ready, japanese persimmons,
elevation LOO feet. John Bost, Nevada
City, six varieties of winter apples. John
A. Church, SCOTS Flat, four varieties of
winter apples. Felix Gillet, Nevada City,
Flaming Tokay and white Malvoise grapes.
Samuel Allison, Nevada City, Flaming
Tokay grapes. A. B. Desbach, Indian
Springs, California port wine. Fe-
lix Gillet, Barren Hill Nursery, Ne
vada City, second generation Prepar-
turlens walnuts, from trees two and three
years old j; Franquette wanuts, Cant wal
nuts, cluster of walnuts, Chaberte walnuts
Serotina walnuts, California late Prapar-
turiens, soft shell almonds, Princess paper
shell almonds, Piedmont filberts, Red