Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-07
RESULTS OF COLONY WORK.
The Part 1t Has Played in Various Parts
of the State.


of the State.
EDs. REcoRD-UNIoN: The communica-
ton of DR.. Latham, published in your
paper of March Both, on the subject of
establishing colonies, as means of attract
ing desirable settlers to and retaining them
in this State, is in good time, and to the
point The doctor says the people of upper
California have been spending good deal
of work and considerable money in calling
attention 10 the inducements for settlement
in that section of the State. Right here |
wish to remark that while much effort has
been made ana money spent, the most
effective means of advertising the country
has been entirely ignored.
Had the business men OF Sacramento, at
the time of the organization of the North
ern immigration Association, formed an in
corporation, purchased four or five or more
thousand acres of good land in some favor
able foot-hill locality that could be irrigated
cheaply, cut the same up into small subdi-
visions, with streets and avenues dividing
the same, and gone earnestly at work i'm
proving a small section of the purchase by
grading the avenues and setting out attrac-
tive evergreen, semi-tropical and orna-
mental trees along their borders, and at the
same time taken thirty or forty-acre
lot, and planted few acres of orange
trees, a few of lemons, few of English
walnuts, and few OF almonds and other
nuts and fruits and vines, and put all under
q high state of cultivation, and given some
appropriate and attractive name to the
locality, the colony thus started could have
been made the means of attracting 10 and
settling in that part of California, even up
to this time, more really desirable and self
sustaining families than the present rate of
increase will settle there for years to come
An improvement thus planned and in
augurated becomes a practical advertising
scheme not only for the colony thus started
but for the whole section OF country in
which ii is located.
Riverside has thus been made the effec-
tive means of advertising the whole of San
Bernardino county. Pasadena and other
colonies have rendered Los Angeles coun-
ty, and the whole of southern California.
IN fact, the most attractive spot on the
American continent. The rapid increase
of population, and the more rapid increase
of wealth and prosperity in southern Cali
fornia, is the result of the practical work
ing of the colony plan of advertising and
settlement of the country
Fresno, and the colony system adopted
quin valley, and done more to bring to the
notice of the world the wonderful suscepti-
bilities of this great section of the State
than all other influences combined
A successful colony from the very ma
ture Of things becomes self-sustaining
land money-making) and self-adyertising
scheme. 1t becomes the show-ground of
all the real estate agents and land owners
in the vicinity illustrating the advantages
Of the climate and soil of the whole sec
ton, and the social. intellectual and moral
advantages of the immediate locality. Il
furnishes the press with items of interest
as matters of fact, and subjects of frequent
commendahle editorial comments. not only
to the local press. but to the press of the
entire State.
How much free advertisement has been
given to Pasadena, Riverside and Fresno,
not only by the press of the several locali-
ties, but by the press of the entire State
and of the United States ANY other as
successful colonies will reap the same ad-
vantages and return the same benefits to
the localities in which they NAV be in
augurated, as have Pasadena Riverside and
Fresno to their several localities. a colony
ground properly selected and tastefully laid
out, and ingeniously cultivated and man
aged is certainly the most successful, as
well as the most economical, means of at
tracing intelligent and industrious people
and settling, not only the immediate col
ony, but the surrounding country: and
such an enterprise should no longer be
neglected by those of northern California
who are interested in the development of
that section of the State. Yours truly,
l. n. HoAG
Victor Colony, Tulare county.