Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-05-22
STANISLAUS COUNTY.
Its Needs, Its Resources and the Crane
Opportunities Afforded.


Modesto Evening News.
What Stanislaus county wants is good
immigrants. Immigrants with some cap
ital, good habits; with industry in one
hand and honest peace in the other. To
secure such immigration, we must hold out
to them inducements for coming. Can we
do it? To induce them to break up their
homes, to leave friends, and even relatives,
to find home many miles west, we must
offer them better than what they have
To prevent them stopping at other places
after they come to California, we must
do better than other places. Can we DO so?
Let us see. First, as to the condition of
the soil. A good portion of the county is
sandy loan. There is very little of the
soil that will not admit of irrigation. The
principal industry in Stanislaus county is
grain-growing. On this industry many
men have accumulated wealth. Evidences
of this are on all sides, in beautiful
homes. Our crops will average this year,
for wheat, nine centals to the ecre. And
we have had too much rain for some por-
tons of the county and an unusually cool
spring, but the strength of our soil asserts
itself in bringing forth good crop. But
1t is not on wheat that we expect imni-
grants to make their living and TO improve
our county. 1t is small farming. There
will ere long be revolution in StanislauS
county. Wheat will be in a great measure
abandoned. Alfalfa, raisins, fruit and
vegetables will take wheat's place One
large farm which supports only few will
be turned into many small farms, and will
support many in just as comfortable style.
Irrigation will cause this revolution. Hav-
ing soil that will admit of irrigation,
with water at our command and easy of
access. with the largest supply at the conf
mand of any county, irrigation is bound to
come. The wonder is that we have not
recognized the fact before this. We have
the soil, the even climate, the sunshine and
the water. What we want is to utilize that
within our grasp, and then invite the i'm
migrants, and they will come.
There are other things an immigrant
wants besides an assurance of a home.
Coming from an older country, he is
anxious about society, health and climate
Although this is comparatively young
country, Stanislaus county, socially, equals
the oldest counties East Having excep-
tioual educational advantages, within easy
reach of educational centers, and having
wealth, our young people have received all
of the educational advantages and refine
ment that could be desired. We are Justly
proud of our society. In education Cali
fornia ranks with the best in the world
Standing at the head of the list of educa-
tional institutions is our own State Uni
versity. which is second to none in the
world. In Stanislaus county there are
great number of churches. In Modesto
there are nine churches and eight religious
denominations represented. In Stanisaus
county there are six newspapers, four
weekly and two daily papers.
If the people in the windy, cold, wet and
disagreeable East would believe US, we
would make a true statement of our eli
here and sample our climate, and we feel
assured of your returning The telegraph
columns are made interesting by large
headlines which tell of the destructive cy-
clone who is now making his tri-annual
festive rounds through most of the States
in the East We never have such things
here. Storms are unknown. Lightning is
a curiosity, and as for wind-storms, we
only have wind enough to stir the dust and
fan our face. ss for the healthfulness, the
ills that flesh is heir 10 ere numerous.
There is no place where men can ns"e for
ever. Death in every country holds the
winning card and has the last play. Pee
pie die in Stanislaus county, but while they
live they enjoy life freer from aches and
pains than in eny other part of the globe
We live in California and enjoy the living.
Transportation to Stanislaus county is
easy. You can get here easy and get to
San Francisco, the metropolis, easy.
Within few hours ride the sights of
metropolis that equal New York in variety
and supplies can be reached The thing
however, that will interest the Eastern i'm
m'grant-the kind we wants there
market for their products? There is. AL
most within sight is Stockton. which is
quite distributing point but within easy
reach and with comparatively small cost,
San Francisco market is open before us to
receive and disburse all we can raise,
whether 1t be fruit, vegetables, meat, wine
or grain. So, We in the East who want to
make good living, with comparative ease
and comfort, enjoy life and make living a
pleasure, come to Stanislaus county, where
all the advantages human can wish for
are ready to be taken ADVANTAGE of