Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-16
Mt. Shasta was in northern California, and
to this day to them it remains


to this day to them it remains
LAND OF ICE AND SNOW.
The very name northern California had
a>bad effect in the East, and ninety out of
every one hundred people there were will
ing to hold up their hands and swear that
neither oranges nor olives grew north of
Tehachapi, and grapes could only be grown
under glass. The men who built up south
ern California, many of them with whom
he was personally acquainted with, are of
that class who know how to make noise
and also how to make the noise pay The
result of their effort is that orange, lemon,
lime, olive and pomegranate are associated
with the name of southern California
The same idea prevails III southern Califor-
MIA: There they have come to believe that
theirs is the only citrus producing section
on the coast. Dan Baker, whom 1 first
knew in Iowa, where he was publishing a
paper, got poor IN the business, and, getting
the orange fever, suppose obtained a rail-
road pass to Santa Ana. At all events
he got there, and is publishing paper, the
Santa Ana Standard. Here is what find
in his paper: "The people of northern
California are talking of holding a grand
citrus fair at Sacramento this month We
suppose special premiums will be paid for
Montana bog oranges and Idaho lemons
we haven't heard from what point the
sacramento citrus-growers will buy their
fruit for exhibition, but suppose this county
will furnish the principal exhibits
Now, Dan Baker is good fellow and is
honest IN what he says. He really thinks
that the people of northern California are
trying to create an immigration boom upon
false representations. He fairly represents
the people of southern California and those
of the East
Italy has population of Sc 000, 900, sus-
tanned by the profits derived from the prin-
cipal products-the grape, olive and citrus
fruits. Throughout the southern portion,
IN fact the whole of France, the principal
business is the cultivation of the grape and
the olive. They produce annual crops of
those fruits, like we do the wheat crop in
California
We have before US a future grander than
all the past In few years the valley of
the San joaquin and Sacramento will be
populated more densely than any valley in
this republic.
We MUST BE PRUDENT AND PROGRESSIVE.
He had witnessed the many changes that
had taken place in the early tilling of the
soil in the West. He had seen it 60 through
the various changes of spring-sown and
winter-sown grain had witnessed the i'm
poyerishment of the soil, until it no longer
refused to yield profitable harvest The
profits narrowed down TO the size of the
mortgage. Progressive, enterprising men
came along. started pastures and diaries,
and prolted from the sale of butter and
cheese. The farmers looked upon those in
dividuals as enemies, and prophesied that
the new business would not pay. and
shook their heads when they predicted
failures. However, while they were look
ing. on, the mortgages were growing
and taking their lands. The farmer
soon began to realize the profit there
was in systematic and progressive farm
ing. 1t spread until the mortgage
became mere patch on the cheek of fair
lady in comparison to her entire beautiful
complexion. They who could change be-
came prosperous. The same application
could be made regarding
WHEAT RAISING IN CALIFORNIA.
The happiest day for California will be
when this people will have to buy their
bread. | mean it; the happiest day for
this people will be when Californians will
have to buy their bread. Then will she de-
velop the resources of her soil, made pro-
ductive by tender skies and sunshine, and
her people realize greater profits than there
large population to the square mile. blithe
and merry, well fed, clearly dressed They
all have clean blouse a clear eye and a
bright smile. They all toll, are blithe,
merry and happy, and are engaged in the
profitable production of that which Cali
fOrnia can produce in abundance Between
the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Pc
cific Ocean lies another France. Sacra-
mento, Marysville. Stockton and Red Bluff
are the Bordeaux, Lyons, Marseilles, Havre,
and at the entrance of the Golden Gate lies
San Francisco-your Paris.
Treat the immigrant well. If he comes
in the spring, he is not spring chicken,
only to be plucked He comes with pos
sibilities. He should be able to borrow
money cheaply, to invest in a new home.
He should at least be able to obtain loan
of 5000 or $780, to enable him to buy a
team and till his land. Encourage him /;
don't try to squeeze the life out of him the
first year. He is not an orange, to be
squeezed. He should be encouraged to go
to work and assist in developing the coun-
try. He is only machine. A dairy COW
is only machine used in the
manufacture of butter and cheese.
The Immigrant is a machine
which comes here to grappie barehanded
with nature, and produce something to his
profit and that OF the purchaser and con-
sumner. Help him, buy his tree and vine,
so that he can be able to produce some
thing, and be of value to the community.
We must get the man here first. The only
way to succeed i'll that direction is to con-
vince him that the climate is different from
his own, and
NOT WHAT IT HAS BEEN REPRESENTED.
This citrus fair is not representative of
your oranges, lines and lemons, but of
your climate If | should tell the people
of Iowa, or any of the States in the north
ern portion of the Mississippi valley, what
| beheld in your Pavilion to-day they
would not listen to ME, but would remark
" Oh. another crank from California" |
tell YOU your fair is only a climate which
you should put a red ribbon on, and give
it to the people of the East Let them
know that oranges grow from Tehachapi to
Siskiyou that they are plucked at the base
of Mt. Shasta, whose pictured representa-
ton of its summit gittering with Ice has
done so much to SANDER California Print,
write and telegraph it east that north
ern California has the same climate
soil and golden sunset as that of
southern California. Show the same
spirit of enterprise that the people
of the southern portion OF the State has
shown. As specimen of their push and
enterprise, the speaker referred to the
of Mr.. Holt, who, not to be
outdone by northern California, placed
in the citrus fair exhibits from Riverside,
to bolster up the idea that southern
California was the only place where the
orange could be grown TO perfection. Con-
tinuing, the speaker said those people ex-
hibit genuine Chicago qualities, and that is
what made southern California, which to-
day has become so popnlous, wealthy and
proud that she talks of forming herself
into State by drawing line across Cali
fornia at some point south of San Francis
CO. 1t requires just such spirit as actuated
Mr.. Holt to come right here and show you
to your teeth that your claims for citrus
fruits was not nearly so good as theirs
We want that spirit manifested among our
people, and desire them to
CLOSELY ADHERE TO THE TRUTH.
The reputation of the average Californian
in the East for truth and veracity is very
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