Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-04

present their facts for the thoughtful considera.
ton of those seeking reliable and desirable in
formation.
It is to the interest of all that each section
shall here thoughtfully and fully set forth the
advantages of our locality. and substantiate
such facts with reliable data in order that JUS
tice can be done all, and that their offerings
may be duly taken advantage of
While selfish motives more or less actuate us
all in this immigration work and while engaged
III u we are only pushing to a coGsummation,
during our lives, what in time would be accom-
pi1shed without further effort, yet considering
Its bearing on the welfare of the outside world
II Is really superior class of missionary work
IN the interest of a higher and better clyiliza-
ton. In that il tends to invite and reward the
efforts of additional producers and contribute
TO tn profit aud pleasure of other and new con-
sumers. II is these roper and intelligent eff
forts that will make the varied values of your
VALLEY and foothills well known to the peo
pie OF this and other countries as the vegetable
tralt, alfalfa, hop and other familiar products
State.
When the broad acres of this, our vast inlapd
empire, shall be nsrrowed down to proper
and thorough development when the STABLES
tor mans sustenante shall find at home the best
market, when flower and fruit shall vie with
the products of the garden and field in reward
ing mans efforts, when varieties shall multiply
ana perchance excel present perfection, when
new availabilities of the country shall Join
those now well known, when the waters of n
thousand now almost unknown streams help to
tlfut places more JOYFUL then will thousands
i've ami enjoy where now but few gather and
estimate.
Modern rapid and favorable TRANSFORMATION ic
now bringing to us the Intelligent and enter
prising of our own and other Christian conn
tries; welcome them candidly and properly in
order that they may permanently join us in the
great and vatied efforts for future mutual profit
and pleasure.
REMARKS OF E. W. MASLIS.
The President then introduced E. w. Maslip.
OF Placer county, who spoke feelingly of the
dignity and poetry the farmers life. He con-
ceIyed that there was something more in the
results of This exhibition than the showing of
what we can raise. 1t marks a new era in the
history of &c trail California, and allies closer
than ever before the enterprising, intelligent
and patriotic citizens of Sacramento and adj
Joining counties. They scarcely knew each
other in California. They had known for years
that 1t was possible TO raise oranges in Butte
and in Placer counties, but un'il their sis or
counties in the southern part of the State began
their rivalry, they scarcely knew what the pos
sibililes of Central California ware Then it
was found that we were in advance of them
in the maturity of our fruit ad equa, to them
IN It's quality. The people of Central California
had lacked faith in their own section. This ex-
hibition OF the products of various counties
would cause no Jealousy. There would be no
competition, no awards, no premiums. 1t would
implant in the minds of men that State pride
which was our lacking. He saw in this exhibit
ton another cause OF congratulations For nearly
forty years the people had engaged in mining
aud commerce. but a new era had dawned and
people were now turning to the country for that
charm, that happiness and that content which
they had not found in the hearts of the world
Agriculture had been called the foundation OF
prosperity, out the mere drudge on the farm
the mere wheat raiser, would scarcely build up
4 county. 1t must be an intelligent kind of
farming.
Mr.. Meslin then eontrasted the benefits to the
country arising nom fruit-raising and ordinary
wheat farming. II was no wonder that the
boys left the wheat farms and crowded into the
cities where they either dIfted into dissipation
and crime or spent their lives as clerks work
ing Tor someone else. In the business of fruit
growing. where the homes were surrounded
with flowers and trees, the boy would find some
charm in life. He poinie out how much better
a young man could do upon a fruit farm than in
city. and said the time would soon cnme
when mothers would be sending their sons from
the city to grow up with the fruit business The
fruit industry resulted in dividing up the large
tracts OF land hrd creating Genser pop
ulstion In Placer county here were five
hundred people on tracts of land less than
one hundred acres in extent. If that i've hun
dred acres was in one ownership, il would 81 N
ply mean desolation. He showed how forty
acres CT land devoted TO fruit growing could en-
ploy the industry OF five or six men. and give
them a liberal reward for their labor The
graphical situation, climate products and
tran sportation facilities. showing that it lay
nearer to the Eastern markets than any other
portion of the State devoted to fruit culture As
illustrating the keeping quality of the fruit
raised there he exhibited an orange in a per
feet state of preservation, which h had picked
from the tree in Janusry, and which had been
lying on the shelf ever since.
H. H. CAMPE, OF BUTTE,
Was next introduced, and said
The Chico Board of Trade was to have been
represented by delegates, and lest their absence
shonli cause suspicion Of Indifference on their
part, I wish to heartily assure you that such il
not the case. Speaking for the Board OF Trade
Of Chico feel free 10 say that il strongly in
tlOIscs the movement that YOU are iuauguratinr
here to-dsy. aud believe that good results will
surely follow. iouT representative. MIR Mayd-
Wei, Who was with Is some time ago, very el0-
qIIeiily pressed the claim of this movement as
an advertising InsdiEln for the upper poz.io:, OF