Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-23

railroad goes into one of these Edenic val
leys, vineyards and orchards, and wineries
and canneries follow, and the soil is at once
put to its noblest use.
The Eastern people, and all others who
want TO be in at the start in one of these
valleys, have now the opportunity, in the
opening OF Capay valley, in Yolo county.
Nearly as long and averaging wider than
Napa valley, it has the same advantage of
early maturity that has made Vaca valley
rich. The inclosing mountains are lofty,
and their purple sides are opalescent in the
sunshine. Down the valley ripples Cache
creek, the outlet of great Clear lake, in
Lake county, and water of most refreshing
excellence for potable uses is found all over
the valley, in wells, at an average depth of
forty-tive feet. Examined by experts from
France, physical survey of the soil and
climate OF Capay affirms its adaptation to
the vine and tree fruits; and it abounds in
that prize of the California orchardist,
cherry land, to such an extent that the OBJ
servant Spaniards, who possessed it once
called part of it "Guinda," or Cherry"
Threading this valley of fat land and bright
waters and opal mountain sides is the new
railroad which is to penetrate Lake county
and open up the thermal and medicinal
springs and charming resorts of that re-
gion. The first new town site on this new
road, where the valley debouches upon
the Sacramento plain, is Esperanza, the
City of Hope. 1t will be to the
| Capay country what Napa city is to
! the Napa valley. Further up, in the
midst of delicious scenery and surround
ings, on soil that will grow grapes to
make an American Johnannisberger is to
! be founded city that shall be what st.
| Helenais to Naps valley. IL is on q plateau.
above the general level of the land, and
offers to sight and sense every blandish-
ment and charm that is possible to Califor-
| MIA scenery. Around this townsite 1t is in
tended to locate an Eastern colony The
| buttery land is TO be sliced thin in twenty
| and forty acre tracts to each holding, and
sold on long time, at light interest, so that
buyer can put his capital into vines and
fruit trees and Improvements, and in this
| quickeniDg climate, where bloom follows
| planting. and fruit follows bloom SO
| promptly, the rancher will get one light
and two fall crops before the principal falls
| due.
recurring to the experience of planters
| in Naca valley, by the time such land has
| hve-year-oli trees or vines upon it. it is
| yielding at rate that makes twenty acres
worth more than a quarter of section OF
| the same land in grain, and worth more
than full section of Eastern land in any
| field crop. Therefore the Eastern man
who parts with whole section for twenty
| OF such marrowy acres in bearing, does
wisely and the planter who begins, as so
many had wished they could have begun in
Napa and Vaca valleys, by putting his
work and that of his family upon twenty
acres of this Capay valley land, may shut
| his eyes to the future, for he is perfectly
| safe.
We find the edge of our interest in the
| development of California continually
sharpened as we see the happy results that
have come to the new settlers who are on
lands III all parts of the State So, when
such a choice chance appears as this open
| ing of Capay valley, within four hours
ride of San Francisco, on railroad where
| through cars may be loaded at the orchard
side for Chicago and New York, we want
the news tar trumpeted. Let the men in
the prairie States who want to escape the
health-trylng extremes of winter and sum-
mer, write Capay valley in their memoran.
dunn books and come on as fast as they
can get here for the valley is only thirty
miles long by two to eight miles wide, and
all who know the mighty things that have
been wrought in Sonoma, Napa, Suisun
and Naca valleys. are Oh the march to get
in at the beginning of development that
will equal them all.
Along the Capay valley the silver fig OF
Smyrna ripens in May, as big as a bell.
flower apple and sweet as a CONNECTION
The cherries there are ripe in mid pril
before the snow is gone in Iowa and Min
nesota, and the climate is ripe all the time
If the State Board of Trade wish TO an.
Choir the enthusiastic affection of the immi.
grant to California, and make him per.
petual pyrotechnic advertiser of this ba.
zaar of all things happy and handsome
good and solid, that can adorn life or re.
ward labor, let it put its energies into colo.
nizing Capay.