Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-15

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: No
stranger who visits California once but is anXi-
GUS 70 return again. This is due to the salubrity
OF our climate; the variety and abundance OF
our agricultural and horticultural resources, and
the marvellous beauty of our scenery. This
country is peculiarly the home of the man who
tolls for his bread, and these are the people we
want to come here. We need no boom that will
bring millionaires they are made here and need
not be imported. This fair was not gotten up
for the purpose of creating boom for Central
and northern California. We have not marked
out any line that separates the southern part of
the State from either the central or the north
ern. We claim an honest pride in all of it. But
we have come here, my friends, to educate our
selves about ourselves, and to show what, in
each locali Y, we can best produce. Hitherto
we have been strangers to the resources of our
own country. We may know in general way
the topography of our State. and its sub-divi-
sions-physieal and political-but until recently
we have hardly been aware of the capabilities
of even the adjoining counties to those where
we live. We, therefore. come to exchange
ideas and to show our products, and to see what
each of us has done in the past, and to learn
what our possibilities are in the future. And we
embrace this opportunity to make protfer to
| the world of our citrus products, and TO show,
| also, the raisins and nuts we produce, and the
wines and brandies we make. There can be no
deception in over one thousand separate eXhi-
| bits of oranges and lemons coming from twenty
two counties, representing an area of forty
| seven thousand square miles-an area larger
| than the great State of New York.
SHOW FAITH By WORKS.
The people of Los Angeles first learned their
| own resources, then they found it easy to make
others believe in them. Indeed, southern Cali
| fornia had no boom until that lovely country
deserved it, and now the world knows that
country by heart 1t has promised much but
southern California has done all it promised
| Look at the carloads of oranges and lemons
raised there and sent away to market; the wines
and brandies that every month are sent to the
East and to Europe for sale the raisins, in al
| most unlimited quantities, that it makes, and
| you will learn the secret of the success of
southern California. There is a solid reality in
this it is not fancy sketch; it is the cold argl-
| ment of undisputed facts. Nor is it an unmer-
| tied boom, either that has built up such local
| tiles as Newcastle, in Placer county as Vaca
! Napa county as Oroville, in Butte county as
Los Gatos, in Santa Clara county; and other
localities might mention. Look at Newcastle
to-day, 1t is d garden. Eight or ten years age
it was mostly covered with brush and trees
The people of Newcastle first learned by theil
own experince what the resources of that won
| derful locality were. Others came and invested
there by the purchase of small places, planted
| orchards and vineyards, and the result has beer
that the hills around Newcastle present an un.
broken network of orchard and vineyard, as
| enchanting the Oriental scenes of dream.
land. Compared with the recent past it is q
| fairy-land. There they raise the orange, the
lemon and the fig in the greatest perfection
| side by side with the peach the apple the apri
cot the plum and the cherry. People now &c
there to live because they think it is the best
place to live in, and because they will live
longer there than elsewhere.
A TOTAL GRAND HERITAGE, WITH FAVORED LOCAL
tiles FOR SPECIAL INDUSTRIES.
But, my friends, if a man seeks for climate
alone, he can make no mistake anywhere in the
tate of California from san Diego to the Oregon
line. | have been informed that the lowest TEN.
perature known at Red Bluff, Tehama county
| is 90 above zero, the orange prospers down tc
20o. So. If he seeks for place where he car
raise oranges and lemons, there is not place in
slightly elevated localities from San Bernardinc
| to Shasta county, in this State, where citru,
fruits cannot be raised i'll wonder. III abundance
and of the rar( ST eXcellt nee. If he seek a suit
able 81 OF TO make heavy wines like sherry port
burgundy, and some of the highest type of white
wines, as well as brandies, the southern couu
ties of this State, Fresno in Central California
some of the interior valley counties, and the
foothills are favored localities for this class o
| production. But if, on the other hand, one j!
looking for place where light, rich and deli
cious table wines can be successfully made theI
| Napa, Sonoma, Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa
Clara and santa Cruz are, in my judgment the
very best for the successful production of thi
class of wine These counties lie nearer the
sea. The extremes of heat and cold there arr
not great, and the temperature never rises as i
does further in the interior. The grape there
ripens slowly, and thus distills its high charac
ter from the soil. Hence. there is not as much
sugar in the grape as in other localities bu
more character and delicacy of flavor. In time
| tAAClC WIZ NC anu AlAdSSO bHGS w nov
make, a light table
WINE OF UNSURPASSED DELICAcY,
And rich in those unnamed essences which Civ,
wine character. Yet these counties hold NJ
monopoly for wine and brandy production, for
as have said before, the sister counties of tn,
interior and of the south produce fine wine a
though of different type. The fact that nearly
all the different wines, as well as the diferen
varieties OF fruits, can be produced in diheren
localities of this State, make it conspicuously
| the most favored SpOt the earth In n
California, in one respect, is like France NJ
one in France thinks of making fine claretS cut
side of that region around Bordeaux, along tht
Gironde and in the Medoe, where fol- centuries
the best and finest light clarets of the worlC
have been produced. The best champagne i.
made in that little territory known as the
Champagne District, and composed of less thar
forty-seven thousand acres of land of our meas
urement, and in which district there are oyel
! seventeen thousand lana owners, and where
there is more actual wealth invested in grape
culture than in any other like extent of territory
in the world. The best brandy produced is als(
made in France, but in very comparatively
small part of it, where, owing to the PECULIAR
ties of climate and soil. the best experience o
he past has shown that it was most enlineRtly
fitted 10 produce the highest type of grap,
brandy. The fine Riesling wines which tbs
world knows of come from that little regior
along the river Rhine No other place has eve
equaied it fol- producing that character of wine
and possibly none ever will unless it be Cali
fornia.
RAIslN CULTURE.
In raisin culture let me say here, we do no
claim that the coast counties OF this State can
produce good raisins. As a rule there it re-
quires from four to fvD pounds of green grape.
% make one pound of rsisirs, while at Sar
Bernardino, Los Angeles, and the interior por
ton of san Diego. Fresno, Nolo, SolGno, Placer
| and some other counties where raisins have
been made in the interior it only require.
three pounds of green grapes TO make one
pound of raisins. and these are infinitely supe-
rior to any We can make near the sea. 1t will
thus appear there is no part of this great State
that has not q specially in the way of fruit and
wine production, and it would be more thar
folly for the valley to claim superiority over he
foothills or for the foothills to claim advantage
over the coast counties and valleys, for each
form necessary part in the varied productive
capacity OF this wonderful state.
FAVORED LocALITIEs
Let me call your attention TO Vaea valley,
which lies less than forty miles from where we
are standing tonight. where fruits are ripened
and sent 10 the market at least two weeks earlier
| than the same fruit raised in either Sacramento
| or Napa counties, or indeed elsewhere in the
State. Al Newcastle, Marysyille and Oroviile
oranges snd lemons ripen six weeks earlier than
they d. at Riverside, Pomona. Pasadena or any
| other portion Of the southern counties. Why
this is so no Que can tell unless ii be for the re-
son that in the central and northern parts of the
| State the days are longer in summer and the
nights shorter, aud the fruit advances to per
! lection more rapidly in midsummer by reason OF
these warm nights thsn II does Ia the more
southern portion of the State, where the orange
aud lemon are proc nearer the sea, and
| where there is more of sea moisture. But l dc
| not assume by this that the central and northern
| portions of the State are better adapted fer
orange and lemon culture than the south What
| do say is, that many portions of Central Cali
| fOrnia are as well adapted for the growth of
citrus fruits as any other part Of the world. In
deed, both Central and southern California pro
| duee splendid orange, and / am not able to
/ say which produces the best Thus far the
south has held q monopoly OF this class of pro
duets. and we have been proud of its success
! now We are IL the field of competition. not 10
destroy. but to build up. We have been slow 70
make the advance, but. once started. nothing
shall stop US.
OUR EQUABLE CLIMATE.
We are here tonight as l have said before
only TO show what we can do, and 10 try and do
that well and, if possible, little better than
others have done before US. Indeed, this is