Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-30
THE PAST AND FUTURE.

Even lne Wlnter-SOW wheat bids fair to
yield good crop.
THE PAST AND FUTURE.
While embarrassing has been mainly re-
lied upon in the past, and owing to the fer
ulity of the soil and warmth and salubrity
of the climate has proved highly profitable,
enough has been done in the way of fruit
raising to demonstrate the capabilities of
the valley for the growth of all citrus, semi
tropical and temperate fruits Through
out the valley may be seen thrifty orchards,
containing orange, lemon, apricot, pear,
fig, cherry, peach, almond and other trees
Vineyards, loaded with punches of grapes
already well formed, give evidence that
there is no spot under the sun more con-
genial to the vine. In respect to early pro-
duction, several residents of the valley
assured the reporter that fruits ripened
here at least week earlier than the same
varieties did in the famous Vaca valley. If
this be true, and the present advanced
stage Of vegetation all over the valley GER
tainly tends to verify the statement, it gives
this section an immense advantage. II is
the earliest fruit which brings the richest
reward to the producer. With facilities for
getting the product of the VINEYARD and
orchard to the market, it will be but short
time when the wheat industry will give
place TO the more profitable one of fruit
culture.
Having THIS in view, prior to the location
of the line of the railroad the Capay Val
ley Land Company, a corporation composed
chiefly of the Directors and officers of the
Southern Pacific Company, purchased on
the line of the proposed road several large
bodies OF the choicest lands in the valley.
ONE OF THE LEADING OBJECTS
OF the purchase of this land by syndicate
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railroad to be constructed was to secure the
subdivision of the land into small holdings,
and to promote the density of settlement
Keeping this object steadily in view, some
of the largest and most fertile tracts will be
subdivided into ten and twenty-acre lots.
and individuals will be strictly limited to
the ownership of single lot. Town
sites will be located as near to the
center of the tracts as may be found
convenient or judicious, and the pur-
chasers of orchard or garden land in
small tracts will be permitted to purchase
not to exceed five lots in the TOWNSHIP plats.
In this way it is designed to establish popu-
lous and thrivine communities, whose
growth and prosperity shall be based upon
small holdings of very fertile and highly
profitable lands. Ten acres of this fertile
land lying under climatic conditions so
favorable to orchard and garden culture
may be made as profitable and responsive
to intelligent industry as $50 or 800 acres of
land devoted to the growth OF cereals. The
very early maturity of fruits and vegetables
already alluded to will secure to the cult
vator the highest market price while the
road to be constructed, being under the
management and control of the owners of
the land to be offered, will afford every ia
cility for the shipment of fruits and Yege-
tables, and IN every respect promote the
success of these enterprises.
The present plan is to lay out four town
site on the line of the road, two of which
have already been definitely located. The
first one is located two and half miles
west of Madison, or about halfway between
Madison and Capay, and is called
EsPERANzA.
The site contains one hundred acres, and
is beautifully located on the crest of a piece
of land which slopes gradually in all direc-
tons from the public square in the center
OF the plat. A more perfect location for a
town could scarcely be selected. A short
distance to the north and east, along the
banks of Cache creek, stretches grove of
immense live oaks, which break the mo-
notony OF the view towards the broad
plains of the Sacramento valley In the
distance can be seen the Marysvlle Buttes,
standing out from the plains and towering
towards the skies, while still farther to the
east the snow-capped Sierras are plainly
visible. To the west lies Capay, little
ways up the valley and between the hills
and mountains which encircle it. The
town site has been laid out square. the
streets all running at right angles from a
large public plaza in the center. Yolo
avenue, the main thoroughfare, is sixty
feet in width, and will be splendid street
Esperanto is situated almost in the GEN.
ter of tract OF fourteen hundred acres
which has been cut up into ten and
twenty-acre tracts. The main body of
the land now has growing upon it a
nne crop OF wheat, though on one portion
OF 1t may be seen large orchard and vine
yard, which is a sufficient demonstration
OF the capabilities of the soil and climate.
The orchard contains almost every variety
of fruit, and both orchard and vineyard
show thrifty and healthy growth The
work of cutting the hay off the TOWNSHIP,
so that the streets can be graded, will be
commenced to-day. Negotiations are now
IL progress and it is understood that the
largest hotel in Madison will be moved
over to Esperanto, and Colonel A NJ
Stevenson has been authorized to proceed
at once with the construction of fine pas-
senge- and freight depot on the site.
Esper2nza will possess so many advantages
that II is estimated that many of the btssi-
ness houses of both Madison and CapSy
viii be moved over to the new town.
OTHER ToEK SITES
VIII be located. but have not yet been sur
veyed. One of them will be at the
terminus of the road, near Lawton's
Hotel, in one of the most picturesque
and beautiful spots on the coast AT
this point the rugged mountains close in
until nothing Is left but the deep canyon
through which Cache creek finds its way |
down from Clear Lake, thirty miles farther |
west. Here is veritable hunters para |
disc Quail are plentiful in the valley and |
foothills, aud deer and larger game in /
the mountains. Cache creek is beautiful !
stream at this point, asd until lately |
TENED with fish. The people living there
say that fish would be equally plentiful !
now but for Moore's dam, three miles east
Of Madison. The attention of the Fish
Commissioners is respectfully called 10 this
dam Il is said that the fish ladder put in
there was placed 30 as TO be Of no use, and