Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-21
WHOLE NO. 1O,S43.
The Climate Fair.

Inc citrus lair az Sacramento has been o
revelation to California, and how much
more surprise TO the less-informed East
Northern California has shown at that fair
the produce of seventeen counties-tbe
orange, lemon, lime shaddock oitron, date.
pomegranate and japanese persimmon
dr0Nh at o vaDety of elevations and in
sons very diverse IN their characteristics
we say II IS revelation TO the people of
the East, less informed than we about our
own State, lor the orange and ali the citrus
hulIs nave become associated in the East
eril fancy with southern California exciu-
slNe,y, ana To tuCse people the orange has
carried the impression Of a baInly Climate
and eternal flowers, that prove irresistibly
etfactive 10 The intending immigrant
NOW TINS impression is not misplaced. K
Is perfectly correct Southern California is
great IN the characteristics and climate
attributed to it, but it would be still Cow
county, unnoted and unknown had it not
ocen Tor the aggressiyeiy enierprising East
ern men, VINO saw the opportunity to de-
velop II and get rich in the process. Its old
sheep ranges and cattle ranches. watered
by irrigation, are now perfect Edens. and
all because a few men knew how 10 make n
noise aoout IL and all pulled together.
central and northern California have lust
walked up to the fact that the orange is the
sign III which Los Angeles has conquered
III lew years population of 100000
Souls % northern and central California
nave looked Their stock over and find the
orange, lemon and lime growing almost
spontaneously clear 10 the foot of Mount
Shasta. The oldest trees are accidental
rather than intended. Years ago a woman
or child ate Chile or Mexican or Sicily
orange and planted the seeds and the trees
have grown. never touched by frost. with
out irritation or attention or tiIlage and
now they bear fine fruit. Seeding though it
IS. Others seeing the success of these old
accidental paintings, have put in unlimited
orchards ot budded fruit, and 50 al Saera-
mento is gathered a show thar is prandlv
impressive. There are the navel oranges
III absolute perfection, the blood and other
fancy sorts, the tiny Mandarin sweet and
seediess, and the lemon ami lime in va
riety.
1t is a climate fair. It IS to show the
people of the East thatthey need no longer
endure the eXhausting rigois Of winter be-
cause they have not gathered gear enough
10 buy the gilt-edged lands of Les Angeles
to insure them bread while thcy get the
longer and pleasanter life made possible by
the absence of elemental warfare: for in
northern California, clear TO the base Of the
impossible mountains the climate is as
gentle and the grape olive and orange as
thrifty rs upon the plains and mesas south
OF the Tebachapi range.
Why what have our Eastern friends to
say to the fact that there is shown at this
far the date, both purple and golden.
grown north of the Sacramento river. in
Solano county, with no more care nor shell
ter than we bestow upon one OF our live
oaks or madrones
We asked Mr.. Woliskill, who shows
these dates, where be got the tree and he
answered " l didn't get any tree. plant
ed the seeds OF dates which my children
were eating twenty years ago, and they
grew, and these trees are the result" Here
! is the tree Of Egypt and Arabia, whose
foliage shades the springs of oases. and
whose fruit is the leading crop along the
Nile, whose season of ripening has been
the time of rejoicing in that land from the
| days OF Abraham until now-the date as
/ sociated with the camel and the caravan.
! with blazing vertical sunshine and blear
/ deserts, grows and blooms and ripens its
! honeyed fruit near the fortieth parallel in
northern California.
Understand, that we make no pretense
of competition, IN production of the date,
with Arabia, but we cite this fact as an in
| disputable evidence that central and north
! ern California is a winterless land, and
| when the date tree has withstood the sea-
| sons for twenty years untouched BY frost.
is a climate in which the grape. olive and
| orange are entirely capable of profitable
commercial production.
To fix locality in the mind of our Easter,
readers, let us name the counties. or some
of them, that have the soil and the sun
shine, and the seasons capable of this pro-
| duction, for the blessed absence OF winter
Is common to Sacramento, Placer FL Do
! rado, S0lano, Yolo, Colusa, Butte, Yuba,
Lassen, Shasta Trinity, Lake, Contra Costa,
| Alameda, Santa Clara. Napa and Sonoma,
Look at the map and see where they lie
| We blame no man for incredulity Sacra-
mento is in the latitude of Baltimore and
| Richmond Va, and while steamers are
frozen tight in the James river, Baltimore
| harbor is ice blocked and the service pipes
| OF the Richmond Water Works are burst
| by the frost, the orange trees of Sacra-
mentO are beautiful with golden fruit, and
/ tronded palms rise out of clusters of bloom
! ing roses. while the foliage of the little
| olive Is foiled upon the purple of its
| l1pened berries, a hundred miles further
north These things are not the passing
| evidence of a climatic freak thew are the
permanent indisputahle facts, proved bv
! the evidence of the long rooted and YEARLY
frulting trees that have stood for a score Of
years and more, as fixed rs the cedars on
Mount Lebanon.
The enterprising people of Sacramento
have massed together this testimony. have
made 1t tangible and acknowledgement it
to the eye and palm and palate. BY their
fruits we now know central and northern
California. Figs cannot be gathered of
thorns, nor grapes from thistles, and the
olive and orange and date don't grow in
the snow and ice.
Our case is made. Now we want the ag-
sresslve, and sometimes exasperating.
enterprise OF Southern California to reap
the benefits of this evidence which Sacra-
ment2 nas been al saeh-paiEs- -t.,-..sse-
recorded