Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-12

development here that, in proportion to
the age of the country and the number OF
inhabitants, has been witnessed nowhere
else The entire 700 miles length of the
State is now traversed by rail through the
heart of the great valleys while numerous
lines cross the State and feed from many
directions these great trunks. Land values,
compared to the ratings at the East, are
considerably higher. Bat as we have once
before remarked, land in California is not
sold, we sell climate, and throw the land
in. That's to say lands in Michigan, New
ork, or Iowa, or Wisconsin, or even in
more southerly States, that will now rate
at half the price asked for desirable lands
in California, would be worth four times
the figure if the capacity given BY our eli
mate could be attached to them. That is
to say again, if we take tract in Indiana
for instance, rating at SIS, S25 or $50, reason
ably comparable with lands in California
rating at the same figures, or even more,
and transport to them the climatic adyant-
ages of the California lands, the tract in the
HoOsier State would be trebly enhanced in
value. Give to the Indiana farmer the as
suranee that in Indiana he will never be
compelled to house his stock against long
winters; that he will never De compelled to
clear his way to barn or house through the
snow that his soil shall
NEVER FREEZE;
That his storehouse need never be banked
up to insure due warmth to his reserve of
provisions; that there shall be no we k in
the whole year that some growth useful TO
his household and profitable to his purse
shall not be prospecting on his land that
there shall be no day in the round year
when ne may not do labor upon the soil
i,ar
no need shall be upon him to construct
weather-proof granaries; that he may
| pluck in his dooryard every day IL the
year bouquet of flowers to adorn his din
ner table; thatin no hour of all the year shall
| his wells freeze or his pipes refuse to con-
vey water to his stock or his household;
that his lowlands and moist lands or his
uplands under irrigation shall produce him
| three alfalfa hay crops at least in the year,
and frequently yield him four cuttings;
that on his Indiana lands he may pluck
oranges from trees loaded at Christmas,
or bending 10 the earth with ripe fruit in
May: that he shall be able 10 raise the zig,
lemon, olive, prune, date, pomegranate and
orange in the open air, without shelter of
any kind and with only remote and very
intrequent danger of losing the crop from
any cause; assure him that tOrnadOes, cy-
clones and billiards are unknown to his
section; assure him that his cattle shall in
crease in the field without concern on his
part regarding their shelter from severity
of weather assure him that his Indiana
land shall produce such variety of crops as
his most extravagant taste or exacting
judgment may demand give him assur-
ance that vegetable product shall all the
year round, in some form, be taken from
the soil, rather than the cellar and the
storehouse; give him all these, and many
other assurances like those recited in this
long sentence and then ask him 10 fix the
value upon his Indiana lands, and compare
that with the demands for similar property
as to soil in California and it will be dis
closed that the price of the California land
falls UNNECESSARILY below the exaction of
the Indianian for his farm. And this
COMPARATIVE PICTURISG,
By way of illustration, is no horid coloring,
but the soberest of fact, Of which any intel
ligent observer may convince himself, if
he is open to the usual proofs that convict
men of the truth. The fact is, as a dis
tinguished writer has said " by the variety,
multitude and wealth of her resources for