Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-30
VALUABLE CROPS.
What this Section Produces-FertiIity of
the SOil-Etc.

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the Soil-Etc.
The productiveness of the soil of the
Sacramento valley, and the abundant and
varied crops it annually produces, can be
equalled in no part of the Union. The
thirty miles of orchard that skirt the east
bank of the river south of this city has
been Justly named the garden spot of the
world. Here is raised fruit sufficient to
supply the markets of our common coun-
try, and as for variety there is no end, and
the quality is such that the fruit of no other
section can compete with it. The area de-
voted to fruit culture is but small per
cent. of that adapted to it, and bearing or
chards can be produced in three years from
the time of tree planting. In New Jersey
they can raise nothing but peaches in
Los Angeles no crop is successful except
late varieties Of citrus fruits, while
here the grape, olive, peach, apple,
prune, date. lime, lemon, orange,
in fact, every kind of citrus and deciduous
fruits, cereals of every known variety, all
grow in the same Enclosure, all appear to
thrive and perfectly ripen in this superior
to all other climates. While our farmers
are getting rich from their grain, hop and
fruit crops, there are other crops no less
important, no less valuable A short dis
lance south of this city, on one of the
sloughs that connects with tide-water, is a
four hundred acre " Irish orange orchard"
A visit to this ranch few DAYS since dis
closed the fact that 100 men had dug $4,000
sacks of splendid potatoes, which were
loaded upon a steamer within the farm and
shipped to San Francisco, where the
rancher realized profit of 81 per sack, or
| SlG 000 off tha lD0 q rlp nrOtit nj 81 On
per acre.
In an adjoining field was noticed large
stack of well-filled white sacks. Whel the
proprietor was asked what they were he
replied, "Oh, that's $500 sacks of white
and bayou beans; they speak for them
selves, and that crop from forty acres is
worth 81, 500."
In another field men were engaged in
thrashing buckwheat, and it is said this
crop was equally as abundant and profit
able as either that of the Irish oranges"
or beans. After digging the potatoes, the
land will be narrowed, and is then equal
to summer-fallow for winter-sown grain.
The potato fields will be put in Cheyalier
barley for brewers use.
When ii is taken into consideration that
this quality of land can be purchased in
large tracts in this section at 800 per acre,
and in many cases at much less price,
who can prophesy the possibilities of the
future when all will be settled with
thrifty population and all under cul-
tivation This quality of land is
unknown in southern California. They
have nothing llkeit, nothing that anywhere
nearly approaches it. The best lands in the
Los Angeles country is about on par
with our red uplands. where the valley
ceases and the foothills begin. This land
sells in Los Angeles, without water to irri-
gate it, without timber, for from $500 to
500 an acre. The same land here, we'll
watered and timbered, can be purchased at
from SD to $25 per acre, in country
dotted with school-houses, climate I'M
equaled, with excellent tide-water commu-
nication and ample railroad facilities.