Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-01

country you have never fully realized that
of all tax-gaiherers Whit is incompara-
bly, the hardest one The amount which
you pay on his account every ten years
/ would buy you a good farm in a warm
country, and stock t. IN addition.
There are other considerations in this
question of climate which are worthy Of
your attention before you decide upon Il
location for a home. One Of these is the
comfort of yourself and family. All
! toll is for the means with which to bay the
comforts of life That is the prime OBJ
ject and end of life. You labor for years
that you may enjoy yourself thereafter
In wineries country, where there are no
extremes OF heat and cold, and where there
is no memorable winter pressing upon you
| and consuming the major part of your
earnings, you can certainly have more en-
joymentand luxury than you can when pro-
duction is confined TO six months in the
I year, and where ice. snow and billiards.
prevail the other six months. In cold
countries the range of productions is limit
ed, and the semi-tropic productions are
Injuries TO be INDUCED IN only at long
intervals. This is especially true of those
! who labor for a living. If you come TO
make your home in q winteriess country the
/ cStui-NADliS iSlitOllS, iliicS.
olives. figs, dates. pomegranates, the lus-
ciouS grapes of the Mediterranean, and a
! long list of other fruits-would be every
day food We are all created with
LOVE FOR FLORAL BEAUTY,
And we delight in all the thousands OF va
ried forms of vegetable life. The greater
the variety the greater the delight they af-
ford us. We are sad when winter comes
and robs the earth of its green carpet, and
chills the tender flowers and sets the seal of
death upon every green thing and we re-
joice when spring returns and the first
! flowers come forth, and Mother Earth re-
wives from winter death. This is true of
all cold countries. In winteriess climate
you will find an infinite variety of vegetable
forms. and there is no death nor destruc-
ton at the approach Of winter. The earth
wears her mantle of beauty through the
uries OF life are concerned, there is the
widest contrast between cold and warm
countries and ali in favor of the latter.
| 1t is not alone in the matter ofthe pleasure
of living that makes climate an important
subject of consideration in selecting homes
Ii is a question of health and long life for
yourselves and those who are to come after
| you. II is certainty that great extremes
! of temperature are trying to the human
| organization. The great heat of summers
and the intense cold of winters are there
fore not conducive 10 vigorous health and
long life. All animals, and all races of
men, i'll very cold climates are smaller and
! less hardy and vigorous than those of
milder climates. The pages of history con-
| firm this. The races that have dominated
| the world and built the most lasting en-
| pires have lived i'll climates noted for an
absence of violent extremes. The Egyp-
| tians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the
Greeks, Carthagenians, Romans, Gauls and
Britons = ancient and modern = prove
that. 1t is probable that, but for
| the moderating influences of the
Gulf Stream, Great Britain would
| be a fifthclass power TO-DAY, instead of
being thtsmistress of the seas and the con-
troller of the Widespread commerce on
earth. Without this historic proof, physi-
ology teathes that conversion OF food into
heat, to nHintain the proper temperature
| of the body in long-continued low
temperature, is q work that taxes the
strength If the constitution to the utmost.
| That climate of moderate temperature
imposes less tax upon the human body is
also true. THAT race with the same civil
ization, ii e same excellence in the arts and
| sciences, IN a country without extremes,
will have longer life than the same race
with a b dter civilization in q rigorous
climate, is certain. This is important for
You to consider.
HERE 1T Is.
You willnaturally ask where you are to
! find such climate, with opportunities to
obtain homes at reasonable prices. |
answer you, unhesitatiBgly, in northern
California In that region there are 100000
square miles Tor $4,000 acres) of land
That region has only FIVE and one-half
people TO the square mile. There is room.
there fore, Or millions more people, and
then be les thickly-settled than Eastern
States. Here there is no winter TO
cover your farms with snow and ice
and preveiit field work. That is the time
ofplowing and sowing here. The six months
that You 3end where you are, in the con-
sumption cf your summer earnings, is here
all devoted TO production Your animals,
instead of being housed and consuming
forage TO shstain life, are grazing out of
doors on green heritage. The earth is
clothed in her greenest robes and decked
with her fsirest flowers. Land is compare
lively cheap. water is abundant. the soil
rich and productive, and timber easily ac-
cessible Since the American occupation
| thirty-six years ago-the valleys have seen
! no winters. There is no ice, nor snow, nor
billiards.. There are no summer lorna
does, and there is no reliable record of
sunstroke. You can have all the semi
tropic productions oranges, lemons, figs,
olives, pomegranates, etc.-and all the
delicious grapes of Southern Europe
The health statistics show a remark
ably low percentage of sickness and death
The markets are good, and transportion IA
cilities rapid and cheap. You will find all
the comforts and luxuries of life here
schools, churches and printing presses
There is no locality without IFS district
school, and all parts of the country are
within easy reach Of the higher institu-
tons of education. A small capital of
$1,000 and upward, with industry and
economy, will lay the foundation of a
home that will be an Eden on earth Here
you will escape the burdensome taxation of
winter; and that alone-as you have seen
in the above-will be enough to buy and
stock farm. You will, in addition, enjoy
a climate that will be revelation to you
Come and try it.