Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-30
THE RANCH.
MATTERS PERTAINING TO AGRI-
CULTURE AND HORTICULTURE.
Northern and Southern California
Compared-Citrus Fruit-Growlng
Expressions of Others.

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A. o. o. W., while in Sacramento a few
DAYS since, stated in an address many inter-
esting facts as comparison between north
ern and southern California. Within the
past three months he has travelled over the
entire southern counties, and has very re-
Gently visited most of the northern coun-
ties. He stated that he made it point to
be in Sacramento during the holding of
our citrus fair. He had been led to believe
that our proposed citrus exhibition was
based on a considerable amount of cheek,
simply gotten up to deceive immigration
to this State and create false impression
abroad that oranges could be produced sue
cessfully in this section Of the State.
He said in substance: was surprised
that you proposed to have citrus fair but
when l entered the exhibition, l saw at
once that the citrus belt was in the north
ern part of the State. Southern California
has been built up chiefly by advertising
most extensive and expensive use of print
ers ink. Why. out of 900 boxes of River
side oranges. less than 200 boxes are labeled
Riverside The reason for this is, they
want to maintain their reputation. The
300 boxes labeled Riverside are sold at
81 per box-they are the choicest oranges
they grow there-wbile the other 500 boxes
not labeled sell for 81 box.
Il make this prediction, since seeing your
citrus fair and travelling over some of your
northern counties, that within the next
thirty years the citrus belt around and
north of Sacramento will produce more
wealth in citrus fruit than it has in gold in
all former years. You have the water and
you have the climate. You have no idea
you who have never travelled over the
southern counties of California-of the ter
rible adversitie5 they have TO contend with
in that section-the dry weather, dust and
even frosts. When at San Fernando
short time since / encountered fearful
dust storm. 1t was perfect cloud of dust.
Around Riverside there was not a drop
of water, except in the bitches. Water
was hauled in wagons many miles. A
man living there for over forty years had
hauled water for that period of time
Water at Riverside now is worth 81 800 per
inch The attention that would be at
tached in the East to this section of the
State by judiciously advertising your citrus
fair would be worth millions of dollars to
northern California. Thousands, tens of
thousands, and hundreds OF thousands of
dollars had been expended in southern
California for advertising
Now, with evidences beyond doubt that
citrus fruit can be profitably raised in
northern California, you will not only have
a great influx OF immigration from the East,
but hundreds and thousands of those people
located in the southern part of the State
will come here and b1y lands and plant
orange trees. This is what you need, and
this is what you may expect. You will
have the benefit of their experience. which
will no of ippa Lon al Mo o. -
Here land is comparatively cheap. In
southern California 1t is enormously high.
Here timber or lumber is only worth SIG to
SIS per LOGO feet; there il is worth $50 and
over. Here you have lovely flowers and
roses growing broadcast there they have
not green sprig except by irrigation.
Sacramento will soon be great city. l
have known land to sell for sos, 600 per
acre in southern California. What do YOU
think of that? And not stick of timber
or green thing on it Irrigation companies
there have over 5000, 900 invested in water
and their claims are all in litigation in ad-
dition. see your water privileges here
they are grand. | found but one place in
southern California where they could raise
cherries, and then only one year out of
five. You can raise as many and more va
rieties of fruit here than they can, and il
is only question of time when you will
excel them IN all respects.
In addition to these statements. Mr.. Nc
Pherson stated that the principal cause of
the great boom in real estate in the south
ern counties was the fact that many con
sumptive people in the Eastern States had
been attracted hither by the warm climate.
They had immense wealth, many of them,
and did not question the price or produc-
ing qualities of the land. They wanted a
home there in the sunny south, no matter
whether 1t would produce oranges or dust.
In most cases it produced only the latter,
while, in northern California, we could
give them a more delightful climate, that
would produce all kinds Of grain, and as
many varieties of citrus fruits, with no ex-
pense of irrigation.
ORANGE CULTURE-FACTs FROM NEWCASTLE
EDs. RECON- UNION: The editor of the
Los Angeles Herdld seems to have worked
himself into terrible frenzy over the sue
cess of the citrus fair at Sacramento. and
the fact that central and northern Califor-
MIA can and do raise oranges superior, both
as TO size and quality, to those of Los An
gees. The first account | saw of his
spleenishness was where, several weeks
since, he made the reckless assertion that
the carload of oranges sent from NeWcas-
tie by the Cooperative Fruit Company was
got from Los Angeles. Now it was impos-
sible to get them from Los Angeles at that
time of year, and he knew il, and also
knew his assertion to be buncombe But
his last exhibition is of such a nature that
one is led to conclude that he must be be-
side himself and should be put under
charge Of some skillful specialist in treat
ing mental diseases. The people of this
part of Placer county hold no ill-feeling
against him, and would be only too glad to
have him come up and see for himself that
orange and olive trees are not only growing,
but growing finely in our mountain eli
mate, and without blankets, too, during
the terrible ~ winters of the foOthills''
So far as his statement that not more
than thousand oranges of the display
came from the parts claimed, the RECORD
UNION dealt with that in pointed and
square manner for the whole section: but
for the benefit of the Skeptical editor of
southern California, have collected few
figures from ranchers in the immediate
vicinity of Newcastle and Penryn. There
have been bought during the present win
ter from Mrs. D. a. Rice, 1900 oranges
DR.: J. NJ. Frey, 1000; H. Frietas, 10000
Z. Norberg, COCO; J. Perry, 1000; W. J.
Wilson, 10000 C. T. Adams, 1000; NJ.
Banman, 1000; K. \. Scott 1000; C. NJ.
Silva d Son, 5000; Ben Hawkins. 5000 :;
c. Estrada, 500; \. r. Peck, 500; George
Larkin, 600; J. 5. Davis, 120; H. Sweezv,
$500: W. Hazen, $500; j. w. Smyth,
5000; C, Gould, 1000; other growers,
5000 Total. 81 020.
Taking this number, and estimating 100
per box, with 500 boxes per car, and we
have more tl,an two cars from this part of
Placer county-a fair start.
1t is useless for the jealous editor of the
Los Angeles Herald to say that these
oranges were bought, by the parties named,
in Los Angeles, brought up here and tied
to the trees, that a few of them might be
saved out and sent to Sacramento TO mis-
represent Placer county: and no fair
minded man having the interests of the
whole State at heart would ever think of
making such an idiodc statement. The
foothills have the climate and soil that