Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-16
drink and get merry over it, but still it is
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people demand in some form the products
of this State, either as wine-drinkers. con-
sumers of fruit, green or canned. We need
not then take stand against the Black Sea
countries, or wait for some dire calamity to
befall some bread producing section, but
turn the wheat fields into VINEYARDS and
orchards, in which line we have no COM
petition, and there is no danger of an over
production.
My friend Boggs, who is here on the
platform, is a good Christian and big
wheat farmer. If there should be war in
Europe which would result in their wheat
being left in the fields to rot, Boggs couldn't
or wouldn't feel sorry. | would not
blame him, for who would not who
is engaged in that business? LET
us get out of raising wheat as soon
as we can, and devote our broad acres TO
the cultivation OF those crops that will bring
happiness and profit without desiring and
rejoicing over the misery and misfortunes
Of others. The speaker pictured the pio-
neer who left Virginia, went West and
built his log cabin in advance of ciyiliza-
ton. Infcourse of time others followed in
his footsteps, and when he observed the
smoke from their chimneys he pulled I'D
stakes, the country was getting too thickly
settled for him, and again dived into the
Western wilderness. Thus did he keen
ahead of development until the western
confines of the continent were reached.
and has no knowledge of the improve
ments that have so closely followed in the
line of his footsteps. He was
THE PIONEER WHO BLAZED THE TRACK
For the grand march of civilization. He
must, however, now give way to others
| men like those who have entered southern
California and made her what she is TO-
day-men who will make investments, try
experiments, and, if they are not success
| full, sell out at profit. Some enterprisng
| men purchased near San Fernando 10000
| acres of land, paying therefor $50 per acre.
1t was an old sheep range. They piped
stream of water upon the land,
cut it up into twenty-acre tracrs,
and sold it readily to settlers at
$3.50 per acre. Other similar tracts were
divided, subdivided, split and cut up, sold
to actual settlers, and the population
doubled and trebled. The same thing
| must be done in northern California. We
must not invite the immigrant here and
upon his arrival show him 40000-acre
| field of wheat-such as are to be found in
Colusa-and say, Is not that fine body
OF grain 2" Nor must we drive him over
| immense tracts of lands used only as stock
| ranges. He will not grow fat feeding his
| eyes upon the oceans of grain, nor gazing
upon the hills and dales covered with
droves of cattle. He will, if he looks long
| enough, become tramp. What We want
| is cutting up of these large land holdings
| We want men to get land, plant oranges
and await results. If he desires to go
| into the wine business, see that he is
| placed in the foothills, where land can be
| obtained, where he can grow the olive.
| orange and vine; put him in the way of
making for himself home and becoming
| independent. If he gets discontinued and
| desires to go somewhere else, buy him out
Keep the ball rolling; talk your country
up. The country south is populated up to
its water supply now, and the coming i'm
| migrant must come north. All through
| northern California you have climate so
! pleasant country in which there is no
winter-that you should speak of it on
every occasion as
"A wINTERLEsS LAND"
You have no idea how pleasantly that
falls upon the ear of those in the East who
| are cursed with the severity of winter. Imag-
inc the difference of the wage winner out of
employment in the East in winter with one
similarly situated in California. There is
a pinch about poverty in the East, especi-
ally in the long dreary winter months, that
is unknown in blessed California The
poor families who exc out q miserable
| existence in the East during the protracted
winter months, if they could plant them
selves in the winterless climate of northern
California could grow into independence
They would become our wine-makers, our
oil-pressers. This citrus fair occasions a
tenderness more eloquent than the tongue
of man can express. Here can be laid the
foundation of many a home, with all the
comforts and luxuries of life to the many
thousands of poor families who to-day in
Eastern cities are shivering from cold
! and suffering from hunger. 1t lies with
US to see that this fact of the salubrity
of our climate, the richness of our soil,
and the value of our product, shall
be truthfully told. 1t is our duty to see
| that those people are brought here, in doing
which we are comforting philanthropic
benefit on men, women and children lead
ing them out of an Egyptian bondage :"
and into "a land flowing with milk and
honey
| have tried 10 give you an earnestness of
what is in me, for the future of northern
California. In my remarke | have in
tended no reflection upon any old Califor-
mans; they had their duty to perform, and
they have done it well
NOW LET Us DO OUR DUTY;
Let us pull together-press and people,
immigration associations, agricultural So
cieties-and we can, within the range
of a lifetime of a man of my
age, see 100000 people settled in north
ern California, happy, contented and
prosperous. My old State of Iowa now
has population of 100000. l have seen
her swell from $4,000 to 100000 of happy
and prosperous immigration people. What
was done there can be done here. Within
five years, if we show the aggressiveness of
the people of southern California, we will
see population of 100000 people in the
valley drained by the San joaquin and
Sacramento rivers.
When members of Congress and certain
business men of San Francisco have been
asked, what will San Francisco do for
irrigation ?" they have replied, We can't
see that San Francisco has anything in
irrigation That is so absurd that it can
be regarded only in the light of mole
eyed optical illusion, not worthy of San
Franciscan, and especially Congressman.
That San Francisco has no interest in set
ting
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE GREAT VAL
LEYS
OF California is too absurd statement to
be noticed. Treat those inert indi-
viduals as the German army did the forti-
fed cities of France-march By and leave
them in the fort. The State will be event
ually settled up to the limit that her re-
sources will support. In passing through
the San joaquin valley what sense of
lonesomeness pervades all. Away in the
distance you see a sheep-herder's camp.
Ionder, well with wind mill, surround
ed by few green trees. That is all that
breaks the view for miles. Outside of the
places in the immediate neighborhood of
the well, is a barren desert--a desert
only in name, for with irrigation it will
blossom like rose, and every twenty acres
support a family.
| thank you, Mr.. President, ladies and
gentlemen, for your very kind attention to
my dry talk upon very juicy subject.
At the close of Mr.. Irish's remarks, on
motion of Mr.. La Rue, the speaker was
greeted with three cheers.