St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-03-24
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
4 Trip Through Sacramento Valley. sAs
Land Of Sunshine. Fruit and fiowers.
Especial Correspondencs.l
SACRAMENTO. Jan. II. l6eA
Here We are In Sacramento City afIer .
visit to the surrounding country. under .
cloudleas sky, the thermometer this day
Standing at forty eight degrees above zero;
merchants doing bus ness with open doorA
and people on the streets without wraps.
flowers blooming In the open air. oranges
and lemons on trees in the door yards oil
the cory resiienccS q revelation u one
who arrives from the frozen east and who
has dropped down IN four hours from the
summit Of the HeTras where the snow 70
ten feet deep and the thermometer ut 10
degrees below zero.
Sacramento City Is the capital OF the State.
b l0cated eigh y-three mics nor, heas: from
Ban Francisco at the confluence, OF the
American and Sacramento rivers. :he later
navigable stream, AMI Il the railroad center
and the largest fruit sh pping point IN Calf
fornla Fnly-fOur trans nom seven O'n0f.
ene direc ions arrive and depart daily, q
shops of lhs C. r X x. furnishing employ
lucnt to Two thOus,ni mechanics ana DOE.
era The city Is built upon a ieve! pain
wide streets running at right angles let
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31ss from west to east.
Many fine build ngs adorn the residence
portion OF the city, but many OF the Ousi'
meas structures with their wide awnings re-.
main a. erected during the mining era OF
thirty years ago. presenting novel appear,
ance to US from the East The State Capitol
building is modelled after the Capitol Al
Washington and cost over TWO million dol:
lars; is surrounded by grounds not excel ed
in beauty of landscape garden ny and semi
-. Isvx He.v md
the United States The city boasts Of the
Croker art gallery costing over four hum
dred thousand dollars, donated to the city
BY Nrs T. B. Croker. said gallery contain.
ing = large collection of choice stAtuary ana
paintings, In which is in active operation
an art school This gallery, second to none
in the United States viii amply repay the
tours, who may visit It
There are many other fine buildingA
among which aye the new Catholic cathe-
dHal, Masonic and Odd Fellows temples,
different churches. school buildingA and
two elegant theaters, numerous EO,els and
business Q ructureS The city contains
abOus 80. OOU population. and has large
wholesale trade one sore having I'D en-
ployeA The city 10 well lighted Ivy two
electric light ana one gas company. The
Sta;e fairs are held here in Sep. ember each
year. the State Agricultural Society having
q large exposition building and mile race
track.
An exposition building adjoining the rail-
road depot 10 being erec.ed, where a con:
California will be shown and printed intOr.
nation relative to same distributed the
Urea OF Sacramento County il GO, OW
acree The land is OF three characters. foot
hill pa ms and Ever bottom. the foOt- hill
land Is peculiarly adapted to TIE produc-
ton of fruits and grapes The plains lands
are mainly devosed TO gra n raising, anu no
failure OF crops since the Amer Can occupa.
ton OF this country. In some portions OI
the county fruits. berries and grapes ara
extensively produced on this c ass Of land,
and from small farms Of forty and sixty
acres considerable incomes are derived
The best lands are those on the Inn
mediate banks OF the rivera and are Do.
voted to the production OF fruits ana
vegetables The income per acre ID fab
bank orchards to own and manage line OF
steamers on which their produce - trans
ported to 5 n Francisco markets or -
Sacramento City for shipment East Pre-
vious to the last two years many OF these
lands were held in large tracts; now ihe
owners are subdividing them and Offering
them for sale to actual settlerx
For many years California was regarded
- vaiueiess save tor its mineral wealth,
lut American enterprise has developed
and fruit RAISING u inferior to none in the
world From the cultivation of cereals the
step was taken successfully in the line OF
6uit and vine raising. and lastly IN the
growing OF oranges and lemons, cOnseQuene.
" The frr't-grower Lere has NO waste time.
but can, II he will. utilize every day In the
year He may actually gather fiuit OF
some kind from his orchard every month
of the year, as the winter fruits embrace
oranges. lemons. pomegr mates. olives and
pcfsimn.ons. which Hpen during the
months of November December ana Janur
arv The fri, Ifs IN 0tra b0fYiol
rAspberTies biackberries and cherries, and
are marketed in April, Nay and june. Tee
summer fruits are apricots, blu M. pcachA.
fgA pears and nectar. mes, and are marketed
from June to October. The fall fruits are
apples pean grapes. ounces, pIunes ana
peaches. to watch m y be added almonde.
walnuts aud peanuta HOPS. broom, and
Egypt an corn, alfalfa. sweet potatoes. etc.
are all grown with profit We who have
spent our lives east Of the Rocky Mountains
can have NO reasonable conception OF .
country that apparently has but two sea-
sons. an autumn and spring, 70 it u here IN
the Sacramento valley. The rainfall com.
mences about November I and ends in
Nay, but only at interv Is during that time,
% that with few exceptions there Is NO
Flowing begins here a soon as the rains
commence-.n fact many formers who
summer-fllOw their lands In April and
Nay seed the same in August and Septem-
Der 0et01o Inc uIot I0nA
Tho change from Ons season to the other
d marked with mo sudden or severe climat.
lc changea Whiic s:ect and snow. TO say
nothing Of blixxards ct this timc OF the yeak.
are the fortune Of the people ut the East
here in ~e Sacramento valley the people
fruits and nowera The writer noticed in
one OF the markets this morning the fol-
lowing fruits and ve9etables. being in.
formed they were grown in THE immediate
vicinity: Asparagus, caul.dower. cabbage.
celery, artichokea. sweet potatoes. sprouts.
potatoes. onions. oranges lemons, psrsim-
mons, English wxlnuts almonds ana rais-
ina In an interview with the signal service
od3cer located here. am informed that this
present winter has been an unusually cold
one-in fact, the coolest in the pat thirty
A lew days since snow-storm actually
sveps over the valley and snow fell TO the
depth of an inch. AFFORD ng great amuee-
ment to men, women and children during
the few hours Il lay upon the ground ne
also Informed me that Sacramento County
shows . warmer winter. spring, and veariy
average temperature and about he same
summer and autumn temperature that the
great citrus belt in Northern lilly does. q
shown BY the 70 lowing table which hs
81 = zz !
Sacramento On. a. % Al S6y Gi5l ~ iyisl
Northern Italy. a.. 5l 81 =. 40. 90 0i:sl
North Carolina. - 81 So iol NlOSleolll
| oF3eloW zero