Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-16
Choose some blooming spot of beauty,
Some fair spot, an plant home.

Own the soil beneath your feet.
You too, who perhaps have squandered
Lies fair morn. It's not too late;
Start at once to WOO bright fortune,
Rall no more at So-called fate.
Sow the golden seeds of saving
In the rich and quickening loan:
Spend your last days not with strangers,
Enter heavens gate from home.
SPEECH OF GENERAL n. P. CHAPMAN.
The next speaker introduced was General
n. p. Chapman, Of Red Bluff who said:
Mr. President: l have been requested to
occupy fifteen minutes of the time of this
convention IN portraying the advantages of
Iehama county as a region for growing
citrus fruits. l want TO say, Mr.. President,
that you have curtailed my duty at the
wrong end of the proposition. lou ought
to diminish the area or enlarge the time.
| desire also to enter a mild protest
against the effort to induce settlers to come
into our part of the State on the single ad-
vantage OF lis being adapted to citrus fruits.
You all remember the story of the Prince
who made up his mind to marry the Young
lady only who would fit a certain glass slip
per, which he by accident picked up in the
midst OF an assemblage of very charming
and beautiful maidens. He found her in
the kitchen finally, after having rejected, |
have no doubt, score or more lovely crea-
tN.tSo' Si4g Oiit Vi hIiOtn NOulu nave
HIM good wife, possibly better than Gin
drella. Indeed, if the size of the foot was
to be the size qad non, l could have found a
million for him any day in the kingdom of
emma. / have always thought the Prince
OF the Cinderella story was very narrow
minded and foolish fellow. Our wives
must have something more than small
feet, Mr. President, and to apply the story,
our Orehardists must look to something
more than oranges and lemons.
We want diversity of products There is
certain charm associated with the orange
grove that don't belong to the apple orchard
Or the wheat field. But we can't build up
a country out OF poetical effects. After all,
the struggle for existence implies a tuSsle
with occupations taking final shape in
dollars and cents.
As l understand this movement, how
ever, 1t IS not 10 put forward the Sacra-
mento valley as the home of the orange
especially, but TO convince the world that
oranges are now, and can hereafter be grown
here successfully ard profitably, and that
home-seekers who come to our coast deter
mined to settle where citrus fruits may be
raised need not go to Los Angeles or River
side unless they choose to do 50.
believe that this exposition has, by its
exhibit full demonstrated the adaptability
of our soil and climate to the growth of
these fruits. We challenge a careful study
OF the conditions requisite to success, and
we may confidently assert that they will be
found anywhere in the Sacramento valley
and its adjacent foothills. l came here
skeptical. A ;ear ago l advised your Sec
rotary against making an effort similar to
this one.
thought our country had SO much to
commend it, apart from orange-growing,
that we should be wasting our efforts to
hold out what seemed to me q false hope
OF competing with southern California in a
direction where natural conditions were
apparently against US. | begin to think L
was mistaken. In several counties repre-
sented here the orange crop already figures
in commerce.
The specimens they present at this fair
compare favorably with any in the market.
From my own county we bring you
| oranges, lemons, olives and pomegranates.
| They are no dollhouse products the trees
that bore them have stood the cold of
| many winters without covering of any
| kind, and were nipped by no frost. The
| lemons sent here by G. G. Kimball, of Red
| Bluff, were grown upon tree now fifteen
| years old, and has borne fruit regularly for
years, and was never protected from FROST.
| Oranges are here from trees plated by Mr.
/ Cone and Mr., Crotaer and others, some of
| which bore the third year from planting
They grow in black loan in the bottom
lands, and they grow on the red and gray
| hills of the highlands. They have had a
variety of exposures with like success.
am prepared to yield to these convinc-
ips evidences, and so should any reason
able person be who is seeking the truth.
| But, Mr. President now that Tehama
county has recorded herself beside the
orange-growing counties of the valley,
| wish TO use the remaining minutes given me
| in brief outline description of the county,
| From foGthiil to foothin on our south
| line is a breadth of 43 miles at Red Bluff
a breadth of 80 miles and at our north line
~ miles; and length of 10 miles, making
over one million acres substantially all of
which may be cultivated to cereals or fruits.
| This vast area is fringed on the east and
west by noble mountain ranges teeming
| with wealth Of grasses and of merchant
| able timber.
The State of Delaware could be placed in
| this valley, with land to spare. Rhode
| Island could find easy footing and not en-
croach upon the mountains
| Much of this land is rich bottom loan
and adobe; aud a large amount is level
| plains of deep soil and rich in plant food,
while other is rolling hill land, very pro-
ductive Of plant T., Thousands of acres
of rich and producu~a lands lie outside of
| this and at greater elevation but capable
of producing the finest fruits and vegetables
and grain.
| invite attention to the display of Mr..
| Wheeler Hazen, from a farm 1000 feet
! above sea-leyel.
Intelligent people in San Francisco ask
me how we spend the long winter months
| in the mountains at Red Bluff | am often
| commiserated by friends in our chief city
for being locked up in the winter SHOWS of
the Sierras for six months of the year.
There is room for missionary work here
at home, ! would like TO feel that grown
up men and women in California, if no.
| where else, could be made to know that the
| navigable waters of the Sacramento river
at Red Bluff do not go rushing down
| a rocky canyon on grade of 100 feet to
| the mile and that the seventh in rank
of wheat-growing counties and the fourth
! in wool does not lie in the heart of the
Sierras. | would like to impress the sim
| pie souls of our metropolis who have
heard of Governor Stanford's 3,000-acre
vineyard in Tehama county that il is not
situated on top Of Lassen Buttes.
Pardon me, Mr.. President, for obtruding
a comparative table of minimum and mean
temperature and rainfall for Red Bluff.
Sacramento and Los Angeles. From a
table published in a reliable form | find
that from 1856 TO 1928, as given by the
United States Signal Ofic S, for period of
seven years, the minimum temperature at
tanned at Los Angeles was 80 Fahrenheit
Sacramento, 90; Red Bluff, 240. The
mean temperature for the same period
was: Los Angeles 659; Sacramento. SO:
Red Bluff, 6io. There was one day in 1889
when the thermometer registered 1872. In
1884 the lowest was DO, and in 1885. 200.
Our signal officer, Mr.. Williams, informs
me that our lowest mean temperature for
eight years was 25.7o He also said that
the difference in the humidity here and at
Los Angeles would give US an advantage
of 50. We know as fact that with the
temperature at and below freezing point
ice does not form in our valley and yegeta-
ton is not bitten. Mr. Williams also gave
me the fact from bis records that in einht