Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-23
OUR CITRUS FAIR AND NEW YEARS
EDITIONS.


There was issued from this office yester-
day, and is still being worked from our
presses, an immense edition of the CITRUS
FAIR REcoRD-UNIoN. We have not in
dulged in much pre-announcement of the
number, preferring that it should speak
for itself. A very large part of the edition
will go at once to Chicago and the East
for distribution among the classes Of peo-
pie it is most desirable to invite to Central
and Northern California. We feel con-
fdent that the paper fttingly and fully
represents these sections, and that it will
prove an efficient aid in inducing immigra-
ton of thrifty people to the State.
All the twelve pages of the paper are
devoted to intelligent, calm and carefully
considered papers upon the resources OF
the counties treated.
The papers include carefully prepared
articles upon the climatology of the region,
vine-growing, raisin-culture, wine-making,
general agriculture, horticulture in all its
branches, citrus fruit-growing, topography
of the country, character of the soils, the
drainage, water supply, social conditions,
educational facilities, ETC., etc., including
detailed and authentic statement concern
ing the lands, attitudes, waters, foothills
and valleys of each county, and the dis
tinctive portions of each, and their adapt
ability to varied agriculture and horti-
culture Much attention is given in the
paper, also, to lands available for colony
purposes and general settlement, their
location, prices, market relations, tranSpor-
tation facilities, water and timber supply,
etc.
And of this paper We have issued the
largest edition ever put forth in the his
tory of this journal. Besides the large
number sent to Chicago to the order of the
Citrus Fair Association, other large orders
are being filled of several thousand each.
We have not sacrificed large space-so
important for information to the stranger
to illustrations Indeed, we have not been
able to find room for all we desired to pre-
sent, reading matter being deemed Of such
higher value; so much so, indeed, that
there does not appear in the paper line
of usual advertising.
We have thus sought to present an edi-
ton wholly devoted to the development
and upbuilding of the central and northern
sections of the State by the dissemination
of the truth concerning them.
Illustrations in number, however, APP
pear, and they are of a character admira-
bly, adapted to the illumination of the very
close and elaborate text of the paper
Most of them illustrate in striking man.
ner the climatic claims of the regions
named, and the desirability of this section
for home-seekers, and are especially happy
| aids in the labor of disabusing the Eastern
mind of the idea that Northern" in
California, relates to latitude, as it does
upon the Atlantic seaboard, and in show
ing that the course of the isothermal lines
places us strictly within the semi-tropic
classification as to climate and production
The Citrus Fair number has cost infinite
pains and great labor, but the result has
been the issuance of twelve page number
of this journal, that treats the whole
subject of immigration, settlement, produc-
ton and climate in a calm and unsensa-
tional manner, and in a style calculated to
impress the reader with the verify of the
matter presented.
The RECoRD-UNIoN will be entirely
satisfied with this extra expenditure of
energy and money if the paper, In addi-
ton to our broad general daily circulation,
shall augment inquiry concerning, and i'm
migration to, Central and Northern Cali
fornia. We are confident it cannot fail to
do so.
All the leading papers in the Citrus
Fair misunderstanding of course, the re-
ports of the late Citrus Fair, which have
already appeared in our columns be
presented to our subscribers in the New
Years UNION, which usual holi-
day number will appear with these and
other new and striking features, making it
paper of the most attractive character
and of the highest value to the State