Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-14

On last Wednesday May 23d, the rail
road builders had reached the Cadanasso
vineyard in Capay valley and had to grade
1000 feet right through the vineyard The
railroad men say it looked like vandalism
to uproot the old and fruitful vines but it
had to be DONE
1.-TWO switches will probably be put in
at the Cadanasso place.
"From 5000 to 1000 feet of track are
laid every day and at this rate the track
will all be laid to the head of the canyon,
the present terminus, in about a month
"A gentleman connected with the rail-
road force now in Capay valley said to us:
took a ride through the Capay valley
the other day, and what | saw seemed to
me like dream. The valley is a Para
dise-there is no place like it in California.
y man with home there must feel like
one in heaven, or as near like it as one can
feel. Just wait until your Eastern excur-
sionists pass through this valley and YOU
will find them going in rhapsodies over it.
| should like to pass through there in five
wears from now and see the wonderful
changes that will be wrought There can
be no improvement on its natural quality.
but what art adds to Il pretty woman, that
will art add TO nature there. The crops
are a No. l. Wheat higher than your
head. There you see vines, corn, potatoes
and fruit trees of all kinds, and all thirty
ing without irrigation. To sum it up
Capay valley has the finest land, the incest
scenery, the prettiest women of any place
in California, and for that matter in the
United States"
THE QUESTION nr cArao>-c
Under the head of Esperanza VS.. Sa-
looms" the Woodland Maa has the follow
ing editorial:
'The Nal has but one word of advice to
offer the Capay Valley Land Company,
and 1t is to the effect that all deeds given
by the company be made inhibitive of
the saloon business forever. Such
policy would at once be popularity in
dorsed by the people Of Yolo county, and
1t would be the trump card for the COM
pany to play in this game. Such action
| would put a higher value upon their
lands than they will ever attain without
1t. We present the question to the COM
pany not in the light of sentiment or
morals, but as a cold business, dollars
and-cents proposition. Mr. Mills saws it
is the purpose of the company to place a
good, industrious class OF people upon
these lands. He expects many Eastern
families to purchase homes in this beau
tiful valley. What attraction has a groc-
shop for people of this kind? The com
pany need not fear that in prescribing
the gin-mill the vineyard interests of the
valley will be prejudiced in the slightest.
Not only the deeds to the town lots in
ESperanza but the deeds to all the 90
acre lots should likewise prohibit the sa-
loon. If the company don't do this
they Will make a mistake. They have
the power now to say whether Esper-
ANA, SO beautifully laid out and envi-
roned, shall be cursed with the saloon
evil, like all other towns in this or adj
jacent counties, or whether it shall be
free from this Notwithstanding and dew
ilish business. No one will be strongly
drawn to Esperanza by the presence
OF saloons; these pestiferous institutions
lnfest the country everywhere, and the
man who is stuck on saloons won't
run any faster after an Esperanza saloon
than Woodland saloon, or Madison
saloon or any cross-road beer-shop. But
let Esperanza enjoy the fame that will be
hers II she tolerates no saloon, and she
would be distinguished among ten thou
sand towns, and claim monopoly of atten-
ton FROM millions. If the gentlemen fail
to see the force of our argument it will
surprise us. Every saloon tolerated in
Esperanza will be hinderance and an OBJ
struction to the growth of Capay valley.
and they ought to know it. The gentle
men need not be told that the saloons are
the curse Of all young railroad towns, and
they will curse ESDerauzo ne SuraI,,
Without them the town will make more
growth and improvement in five years
than in twenty with them. Mr.. Mills
and Mr.. Hopkins and Mr. Huntington
know that the marvellous growth of many
of the best towns in Southern California
has been largely due to the ascendancy of
this anti-saloon sentiment in the govern
ment of those cities
q" Mr.. Mills informs US that Guinda will
probably be temperance colony. For
what reason should Guinda be so sgnally
blessed and Esperanza so conspicuously
cursed. Sacred as are the responsibilities
of maternity-the responsibility of bring
ing into the world new life that NAV be
either damned or blessed by heredity-
there are weighter responsibilities by far
devolving upon the man who POUNDS
city, and who has it within his power to
either make it clean and morally
healthful community, or to mortgage the
homes of the populace and the very sun
shine of heaven for all future ages to the
devil"