Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-03
A GLANCE AZ CALIFFss CHINA.
ITS ADVANTAGES AND DIs4DVANT-
AGES-PiAfN FACTS.
Area. Needs, Claims, Promise, Gil
mate, Soil Product and Sta
tissics of California.

lied by our people that when the stranger
resds articles descriptive of the advantages
of this State, he will judge that the writers
present them III the best possible light.
We. however, call his attention to the fact,
that he can easily verify by observation
and inquiry whether there is exaggerauon
or concealment of any material facts. In
all that the REcoRh-J MON has said, or will |
say of the desirability OF this State for the
homeseeker, it has been, and will be, ex-
ceedingly cautious to make no statement
that cannot be
EASILY VERIFIED.
We have not, and will not make any con- |
cealnlents as to disadvantages, though say |
that the objections to California are fewer |
than to any other locality within our |
knowledge, on the face of the globe. We |
frankly say to the newly arrived that we |
need population. That we have the area, |
productive capacity and ability for popu |
iation of several millions, whereas, IN fact,
we have, owing to our remoteness and |
vouth. Int about one million in the State, /
resident, including the Chinese. The full |
possibilities of this State can be developed |
only by laboring opulation-laboring |
either in commercial pursuits, IN manuiact-
ures, or in tilling the soil, or IN the invest
ment and reproduction of capital as the re-
ward of thrift and economy. We prefer to |
name at the outset what
THE OBJECTIONS
To the State are, that the reader may have |
them in mind as he proceeds. The Erst Is |
the sparsely settled condition OF the coun- |
try. This we are now seeking to obyiate |
in all legitimate ways. In the past two |
Inv. r. cttol N
this direction that the promise is within |
the next decade the State will have |
very nearly received the quota of |
people necessary to her perfect devel |
opment The second is our remote |
ness from the great markets OF the world. |
This is, however, being eliminated by the |
rapid and multiplying methods of commu-
nication, and by the opening up of an area |
of growing trade to the westward in thei
Orient and the islands of the Pacific. More |
over, our products are of such character, |
and so advanced as regards seasons that
we find a ready market, even though dis
tant for much of our products. Thus, in
fruit growing, one of the chief industries
of the coast. we reach Eastern markets
with our supplies far in advance of any
other producers, and the quality and the va
riety of our product in this line commands
for our production exceptionally good
prices, and creates demand that no other
supply can so well fill. Tkird-There are
sections of the State were
IRRIGATION
Is felt to be essential. But the public ac-
tiyities in filling this need give promise
that very soon. indeed to a large extent,
this factor will be satisfied Irrigation
works of great magnitude are now being
constructed, and policy will be adopted
Nv ha of baf will inSr1 of,,,liaa
ton of water wherever needed But irri-
cation is the need of only portion of our
territory. Outside of such areas we have
capacity for an immense population. For
instance in the north part Of the State all
that region lying northwagtl of the center
of the State, there is never entertained
fear of drought, and there is such pre-
cipitation that some measure of yield is as
sured year in and year out Fourth-There
is in our midst people filling very largely
the labor field, with whom the white labor
er cannotsuccessfully compete without such
manner of domestic economy as is unnat-
ural to and undesirable in the representa-
tive American citizen. This evil, however,
is already under restriction, and the coun-
try is alive to the necessity Of such protect
i've regulations as will forever prevent it
assuming greater proportions, and as Will
reduce the present menace to nominal one.
IN HORTICULTURE
We are troubled with the same insect pests
that are common to the whelecountry, and
from which no part of it is wholly
free. But we are taking sUch preventive
measures as have greatly mitigated this
evil, and give promise of it's speedy extine-
ton. Fifth-At rare intervals we have
slight tremOrs of the earth, but these are
30 infrequent, so harmless, that the people
entertain neither thought nor fear con-
corning them. The geological formation
of the country forbids the idea that in this
respect there can ever occur here any in
jury worth the mention. And here we
may remark that not so much damage has
been done by earthquakes in all the history
of the territory now embraced within State
lines. as results from one ordinary gale in
the. West, au ordinary cold snap at the
East, or the high tides and abnormal rain
fall and river flooding in single day in the
States east of the Missouri river. These are
all the objections that can za+ionally be
raised to the State by any thoughtful
man or woman who contemplates founding
ahome here. Now as to
THE CLAIMS WE ADvtNcE
In preceding articles we haveset forth the
educational advantages of the State and
these, we venture the assertion, are on a
more liberal basis than those of ANY other
State in the Union, though educational in
situations are in other States more nu-
merous. We invite attention to the article
on that subject, in which we carefully, and
in detail, laid bare the whole educational
scheme of California. We have shown,
also, that in the matter of healthfal climate
there is no superior to that of California
and that her multitude of healing springs.
her sanitariums and the high state of
health shown by the statistics of theState
Board of Health, place this State in the
front rank. Extending. as the State does
along coast warmed by the Japanese cur
rent, divided longitudinally by Low ranges
of mountains, with 700 miles of salubrious
sea coast upon themost pacific of al, oceans,
with warm valleys made productive by the
richest of soils, with On equable temperature
with total absence of any thing that by
the Eastern visitor would be esteemed a
storm, without freezing times, or snow, or
ice with occaSiona! and comparatively
harmless frosts, and those confined TO mar
row sections, CaliforyliG presents attractions
IN the matter of climate that are simply
'unequaled in any part of the national do
main. 1t is possible fe- the visitor 50 ,suit
himself with
ANY KIND or MILD CLIMATE
In California that be NAV desire from
h-acing soft eea breezes and invigorating sa-
line atmospheres TO warm and c.ouSless
skies in the velleys; from the even temper
atDre that seldom varies from sixty-five to
seventy degrees, TO the Evarsn valleys where
the thermometer attains tie nineties, but
where, the air Being dry, the heat is not felt
as it would be AZ eighty al an point east OF
the Missouri; frSm lowlandSs;o attitudes 0f
any degree up te seven thousand and tea
Thousand feet; Eom mountain to plain
from foothill to ocean shore, from humid
atmospheres thatlkeep the soil moist the
year reRnd, to greater or less extent, to dry
atmosphezeS with warm days and uniform
lily cool slights. Il IS well understood in
California that one may, by q removal of
about ten miles in any direction. find
different climate, hItt none to which at
taches the zigors Of the Eastern cold
winters, or the Eastern sultry summers
With timber plentiful. lumber proe1xable
IN variety Mt low rates. stone at hand at
almost any command, elays that produce
the best OF building brisk, fuel plentiful,
either coal or wood, water free from ts,e
hard qualities thai distinguish so much Of
the domestic water supply OF the Easts HE
State offers unparalleled advantages fog the
home builder.
IN THE MATES or TRANSPORTATION
Railroad building has reached a degree Of
development here that in proportion to