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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02
SACRAMENTO AND THE YEAR.

The year 1887 was one that gave Sacra-
mento reason for thankfulness. A review
of the business of the city, elsewhere
published, shows that the trade of Sacra-
mento has augmented, and that her trade
area has enlarged its borders greatly. The
people have been prosperous, labor has not
gone begging, want has not visited our
doors, or epidemic walked in our midst.
The city has a thousand reasons to give
thanks and ten thousand to be hopeful.
What we need is something more Of en-
eIgy and less of content. Well enough !"
ought, in 1885, to become "a great deal
better" and unless we mistake the .nirit
now manifest, it will, at the close of 1883,
te found wonderful advancement" With
the opening Of the year the people of
Sacramento should lay aside all timiditv.
all Jealousy. or mere wishing, all fearful
investing, and in their stead put 20 the
foefront push and boidness, more of broad
mndetness, and above all, fearlessness of
venture. Selling upon the splendid oppor-
tunities now opening arms for us. we
sh5uld put 1887 and all other years to the
the blush by the advances we make in
1858.
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CapaY Valley.

Parties who have visited Capay valley,
in Golo county, since the recent storm, say
that they have had an abundance of rain
all up the valley, and that the farmers of
that locality are jabiant over their pros
poets for boGnliiul crop this season. The
grain all through the valley being from an
inch and a hall 10 two inches and a half
high, and much earlier than any portion of
the county, gives it a beautiful appearance.
1t is also learned that the railroad COM
pany has laid out two beautiful towns, and
the surveyors are still at work sectioning
and subdividing their large tracts of land
in that locality, for the purpose of selling
in the early spring. The ties for the rail-
road TO the head of the canyon are all de-
livered at Madison. The rail-laying will
begin some time during the month of Janu-
airy. The surveyors in the canyon are
making the final and permanent surveys
from Captain Ramsey's to Lakeport, and
are well quartered for the winter and will
finish the work sometime in March. There
are number of parties planting various
| early fruits, and the Capay valley is des-
tined at an early date to produce the earli-
est fruits in the State of California. The
| orange and lemon trees in that locality be.
ing loaded down with ripe oranges and
lemons makes it look like a paradise. AL
together that locality promises to be one OF
! the most prosperous sections of this great
State
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02

Sufficient to insure a living. The cheap
ness of land in Central California, as We
stated it, excited surprise, il, iBdeed, our
statements were not received with some in
creduiity. This is the main lever 20 use,
not only in the South, but in the East. !
found that while our exhibit of oranges
was equal to. If, indt ed, it was not supe-
Tior. to any which Los Angeles proper
could make, it was received more as an
evidence of equable climate than of profit
in citrus culture. and accordingly many
questions were asked about peaches, grapes,
figs and prunes. | thought perceived an
unexpressed doubt whether climate as
favorable to the growth of oranges as
Placer county showed would likewise be
congenial to the growth of deciduous fruits.
often smiled at the necessity OF
REPEATED INsIsTANcE
That Colfax, at an elevation of :, 100 feet,
produced grapes and pears equally as fire
as the Sacramento valley. l am firmly of
the opinion that al exhibition next sum-
mer al Los Angeles and San Diego of our
peaches, grapes, pTunes and berries will do
an infinite amount of good to this section.
As | said before, there are thousands upon
thousands of people now in the southern
country, and will be there next summer,
who are anxious for information concern
ing The cultivation Of deciduous fruits.
a PROPOSITION.
If the counties of Sacramento, Butte,
Yolo, Yuba, Suffer, Solano. Ell Dorado,
Nevada and Placer would join in all ex-
hibit to be kept open for one year at Los
Angeles or San Diego, under the manage
ment of an intellectual person, capable of
explaining the topography of this section
of the State, its climate, ten perature, rain
fall, profits Of fruit culture, etc, believe
ten thousand people would be added to our
population next year
4 daily bulletin should be issued, to be
Tree or at slight cost devoted TO our in
tefests.
While the expression Of the Los Angeles
press was, with one exception, not unkind,
yet it was not TO be expected that it, es one
Of the editors expressed it to me, would go
into ecstacies over Placer county. If q
southern county editor asserts, IS one did,
that oranges only gro% in pockets in Placer
or any central county, the reply or refu'a-
ton is not heard or read by one of his
readers. because northern papers do not
circulate in the south
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SENSIBLE ADVICE.
THE RESULT OF THE PLACER En-
HIBIT AT Los ANGELR>.
Il Lesson-What We Must Do-Faise
Impressions How 70 Re
move Them.

EDS. REcoRD-USIoS At ycur re9uc /
L submit some notes in reference TO the
exhibition of oranges made b. Placer
county, through its Board of Trade at Los
Angeles. The venture vas made, not to
convince the residents Of Los Angeles
county of the superiority OF ;he climate Of
Central California over that of that favored
county, but to present al object lesson -
to the thousands of Eastern people who are
seeking homes in California, which should
teach, beyond all controversy, that this sec
ton of the State, and particularly Placer
county, possessed climate favorable to the
growth OF citrus fruit, equal 10 that of any
other section, and in respect TO absence
from injurious insects and to facilities OF
railroad transportation superior to any.
think we
CoNCLUsIvELY SHOWED IT,
And that the money expended will, within
year, be returned to that county, and to
the liberal citizens Of this civ who 50 gen
erously assisted us, one hundred fold Our
| exhibition was made in a room of build
ing situated in the:most throneed portion OF
| the city of Los Angeles, presenting 3 face
| sixty feet wide. In the rear forty feet from
the sidewalk, the oranges we're arranged
against the wall TO the heigh, 81 over thir-
teen feet presenting mass %; 500 square
| feet of clear, bright. scoie!ess oranges.
| The hall was crowded from y NJ utitii 10 p
NJ. of each day with deeply Interested and
| inquiring spectators. \ large map in,i;ca-
ting the position of Placer, Sacramento, 81
Dorado, Yuba and Nevada conuties hung
against the wall and WAS used by th6
speakers to illustrate their remarks
OUR RECEPTION
| Was hearty. From the old citizens If Lo,
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THE YEAR.

The year Just closed has been good
year for California The people Of this
State have reason to be thankful, and to
Sster upon the new year with high hopes
and the strongest encouragement for pro-
greSsive activity. The State has not been
visited by any elemental disturbance of 4
harmful nature; it has escaped plague and
pestilence; the field of labor has rejected
no willing worker but called loudly for
more sober, industrious and provident men
financial distress has not been visited upon
Us; our fields, and trees and vines
have yielded abundantly; our mer-
chants have prospered; the tillers Of the
soil have not had cause for complaint
there have come into this favored State
some tens of thousands Of we'll conditioned
worthy people to share our glorious herit-
age, and they have had a hearty welcome.
Wealth has opened liberal hand and en-
dowed educational, art, religious and char
liable enterprises. The south of our State
has been visited by such tidal waves
of prosperity and desirable population
as TO amaze its warmest friends and
the north has shared this good for
tune, though home-seekers have come
within its borders in less number. The
State and its claims have been made more
widely and intelligently known abroad,
and in consequence has been accorded an
importance heretofore denied to it. Rail
bodybuilding has been vigorously pursued
in nearly all parts of the State. and the
year was made notable by the completion
in California Of one of the greatest railway
projects of the century. Industries have
been greatly enlarged, and the Federal Gov
eminent itself has been brought to confess
our ability to successfully compete with
the great iron ship-builders of the East
There is more of the desirable labor ele-
ment in the State to-day by far than this
day one year ago. At the same time we
have made some progress, though not a
great deal, in excluding the undesirable
clase Of workers. So, we repeat, the year
past gave us cause to be grateful, and reason
to be hopeful in degree we believe, that
no other State in the Union has better
warrant for entertaining.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02
SACRAMENTO AND COUNTY.

During the year 1887 the RECoRD-UN
made the publication of elaborate Illus
trated articles upon the counties and To-
calities of Central and Northern Califor-
MIA speciality. Reliable writers were
specially employed for the work, whose re-
searches, knowledge of the State, its eli
mate, soil, products and topography pecu-
liarly qualified them for the tasks. Twenty
two of these articles have been published
We congratulate ourselves upon their
pronounced success, and with pardonable
pride refer to the wide commendation they
have received, and the vast number of
readers they have reached. The belief is
justified that these unexaggerated EXPOSE
lions, appearing in a journal published
where they would find critics qualified to
detect error, and having a wide, general
circulation also in the United States and
elsewhere, have reached hundreds of thou
sands of readers abroad who have
placed fall of confidence in them, and hence
been favorably impressed with Central and
Northern California, and that large mum
bers of these readers have thus been in
duced To come into the State. Many large
special editions of the papers containing
these articles have been sent abroad, and
the information thus disseminated cannot
fail 10 yield abundant fruit.
While certain sections of Sacramento
county have been III this manner treated.
there has been given in the series no COM
prehensive and exhaustive paper upon
Sacramento and Sacramento county. We
have therefore devoted the first issue of
the REcoRD-UNIoN for the new year 10 an
exposition of Sacramento county, with
two supplemental articles, one devoted to
the consideration of Sacramento as trade
center and focal point of the railway
system, and one to the city socially CON
sidered, and its home, educational and
other advantages. In addition will be
found a paper by Sacramento merchant
upon the export interests of the city of
Sacramento, and one by the Signal Service
Officer upon the city and county china
tology.
The article upon the county will be
found to treat of every prominent section,
the soil, productions, industries, invitation
to home-seekers, etc. The RECORD UNION,
therefore, for this morning, is number of
inestimable local importance, and we are
confident that examination OF it will con-
vince the fair-minded that no immigration
literature yet published has equaled it in
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02
THE ONLY WAY. TO ANSWER

The misstatements about Central California
is to make a continuous exhibit and have q
bulletin intelligentlv edited, issued daily
And the same proposition applies to the
exhibit at the East. Is it not worth trial
at Los Angeles, where we learn in the past
year $1,000 people. and some place the
number higher have been landed by the
Southern Pacific and the A. & S. +. Rail
roads into the southern counties?
We have better and more equable
climate than any county in the south, less
damaging frosts, owing to CONFORMATION OF
the Sierras, wider field for the cultivation
Of deciduouS fruits, better transportation
facilities, aud Infinitely more water avail
hese advantages, intelligently, continu-
ousy and forcibly presented either at the
East or in the two leading cities of the
south will rebound in a large immigration
to this section. Z. w. MAsLIN.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02

Angeles we met nothing but kindness, and
they were free TO express their surprise and
pride as Californians, that Placer was able
TO make such an exhibit. Indeed, we did
not perceive any jealousy upon the part Of
any, except some part of the press | see
no excuse for any jealousy. It is difficult.
except by personal inspection, TO give an
adequate conception of the fertility and re-
sources of that wonderful portion of the
State. 1t is useless and idiotic to character
ize the southern portion of tie State as
barren, or nnsuscepUble OF general cultiva-
ton. We might as well look the matter
sqUarely in the face and admit that the fu-
lure of Los angeles and San Diego and San
Bernardlno counties is assured, ard that
there Is no limit 10 their progress. We Of
ten hear II SAID that the immigration pour
ing into the Los Angeles district will find
us way north. do not believe it.
UNLESS EFFORTS ARE MADE.
Such as were made by Placer, to exhibit
the tangible evidences of the fertility of our
soil ard the equality Of cur climate at
los Angeles or San Diego, or by a deter
mined and systematic presentation of cur
resources to the people of the East Con-
vince them before they start and we will
get them. And let me say here that the
ignorance of cur Eastern brethren about
taAAip4 MIA - SUI n 4SlliS ~ the last ucgTee.
California, TO the great body of them, is
Los Angeles and contiguous counties. and
it was with some difficulty that we could
compel beliefin our statements Wefound
the words Northern California" an i'm
pediment. The words conveyed to most of
them an impression of ice and snow, while
some solemnly assured me that they
thought this section of the State was given
up 10 mining and to Indians. But to recur
to the main question. There are three
classes of Eastern people now in Los An
geles; one the extremely wealthy. who
have come 20 enjoy the climate and seen
cry, and 10 foster and nurse the health left
them after struggle for wealth in an in
bo>pitabie cline. This class is content
aud cannot be moved. The other is COM
prised of persons possessed of some money,
who wish 10 use il for the purpose Of earn
ing Il livelihood The laboring and indus
trial class find ample work at remunerative
wages. The persons composing the second
class are in Los Angeles, Or rather the
southern country, intending TO become
residents of the State, but the price Of land
near railroads and towns is, in their
opinion,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02
SAN FRANCISCO AND THE YEAR

San Francisco belongs to the State. While
at times her people manifest feelineithat
suggests their belief that the State belongs
to San Francisco, yet when the test comes
the loyalty of the metropolis to the best
interests of California is made clearly evil
dent. We can pardon, therefore, the &C.
casional manifestation on lier part of
disposition to dictate, and charge it to the
local pride. But the people of that city
are justified in pride for their home, for it
is the queen city of the western slope Of the
continent. The State has Just as much
pride in San Francisco and glories in her
young strength and marvellous dev aIop-
ment
1t is therefore, with something a coed
deal more emotional than pleasure, that
the interior learns from the casting up of
accounts for the year 1887 by the metro
politan press, that San Francisco in the
last twelve months has greatly prospered.
Her commerce has vastly augmented her
vaults have swelled their richness, and
her store-houses have burst with
plenty. Thus we learn from
the statistical showings made, that while
the custom receipts in 1886 was $685., 6SS,
they amounted in 1887 to S7,520,992 II.
The imports at the port of San Francisco
the past year exceeded those of 1886 by
over S4,000,000. In this connection, SAYS
one of the city journals, it is to be borne in
mind, that two-thirds of the merchandise
so imported to San Francisco comes in free
of duty, while at nearly every other port
of entry in the United States the proper
ton of free TO dutiable imports is much
smaller Philadelphia with a population
three times as great as that of San Fran
cisco. has scarcely twice its valuation of
property, and Brooklyn, with twice San
Francisco's population, has S10,000,000 less
of assessed valuation.
San Francisco, with her 1,200 miles of
streets her S2O,OO0,00O of municipal prop
erty, her $4,000 people. her $4,000
children in her schools, her assessment roll
of $3.50, 100000, her culture, art, business,
vigor and push, is a metropolis in which
the people of the State may well take
pride, as all Californians do in her. That
1887 was good year for San Francisco, as
it was for Sacramento, is cause for thank
fulness and congratulation.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02
ro-DAY,s LEADING NEWS TOPICS

The Central Pacific Company has presented to
the President its view Of the relations existing
between it and the Government.
knights of Labor in Reading, Pc, met yester
day and refused to strike.
Sixty thousand persons greeted the Pope yes
teTday in st. Peters Cathedral.
Several disastrous and fatal railroad accident.
have occurred in the East
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02
SUPERIOR COURT.
Department one-Armstrong, Judge.

SATURDAY, December 3lst.
Manuel Joseph Machael, Il native of Azores
Islands, admitted to citizenship ON testimony OF
j. L. Gomez and S. J. GalaIte.
In re b. Alexander an insolyent debtor-ln-
solvent examined.
Antonio Francisco Frega, a native of the
Azores Islands, admitted to citizenship on the
testimony of J. L. Gomez and J. s. Contente.
John T. Caldwell VS.. County of Sacramento
The plaintiff refusing to amend his com plant TO
which demurrer has been sustained, ordered
that Judgment be entered for defendant, to
which counsel for plaintiff excerpts.
remittitur has been received from the SUI
preme Court affirming the decision of the lower
Court in the case of People VS.. Drury Melone,
who was charged with appTopriating to his own
Use Su JOY 80 which belonged to the State.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02

To ITS thousand of readers the RECORD
UNION extends the old time greeting, that
one which wears, but never wears out; re-
peated by tens of million of lips for centur-
les, yet ever fresh, warm and breathing
good will, kindness and humanity
Happy New Year.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02

THE news of the dangerous illness of
Mr.. VIM. II. Mills is received in Sacra-
mento, for so many years his home, with
profound emotion and sincerest regret.
The legion of his friends in this COM
munity will unite with those of his new
home, in the hope that becomes a prayer,
for his speedy restoration to health and
strength.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02
SAN FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

The paper is for sale at the following places ::
L. p. Fisher, Room q. Merchants Exchange,
who is also Sole Advertising Agent for san
Francisco; Grand and Palace Hotel News
Stands: MarketstIeet Ferry and junction OF
Market ana Montgomery street News Stands.
~ Also, for sale on ell Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02
THE MARSHALL MeNUWtST.
The Commissioners Ask for Models and
Plans-What 1t VIII Lse.


Plans-What 1t VIII BE.
At last the Marshall Monument Com
missioners have met and decided to pro-
coed with the work of erecting the monu-
ment in accordance with an act of the
Legislature passed at its last session setting
apart $1,000 for that purpose. While the
Commissioners have been rouud!y abused
by the press and people for their seeming
inactivity, they have a very good excuse TO
offer. In the first place they could use
none of the appropriation for ihe purchase
of the land where the discoverer ot gold
was buried. This part of the business was
turned over to Placerville Parlor, n S.
| G. w. They raised the money ard pur-
chased the site, which was only accom-
plished few weeks since. The Commits
sioners did not feel justified in erecting A
monument on private property. hence the
delay.
PLACERvfLLE PARLoR
Is deserving of all praise for the interest
they have taken in this L after. Saturday
| evening two of the Commissioners Senator
Caminetti, OF Jackson, and J. II. Miller, of
| this city, held meeting. The other Com
missioner, Senator Gesford. has removed
| from Napa to San Diego. Il is expected
that he will resign, his resignation IS ex-
peoted daily, and in that event the Governor
will appoint George Hoffmeister, of Placer
vile. The principal part of the business
OF the meeting was the discussion as to the
style of monument best to build. The
Commissioners so far have decided on no
particular style, and invite suggestions
from the public. No doubt the material
will be granite, in fact that has been dttin-
itely settled upon, there ceiGg
SPLENDID QUARRY
OF this stone short distance from the
monument. This quarry was opened in
1854, and stone taken from there at that
time and used in the Construction OF the
old county Jail proves c1nclusigely that it
is good stone. 1t is similar III every re-
spect to that in the quarry at tue F.isom
branch prison. The Comm, issiuners invite
stone-cutters, granite workers ard mouu-
ment- builders to send in isists sad Si,e,;6-
| cations for monument, T. coz, at watch
must not exceed S, 500. This nintslissi 10
| is not like many Others, 6 "a, pare T., ran
around the country and have Tx safe pay
| their mileage; they
EMPLOY 80 SECRETARY.
And, so far, what little pxpeas,, Lss betS
incurred has been borne bY he inG.xiinsl
members. The So coo remains islecj. atd
will so remain until it ii pail .sut IA lie
| individual who erects Tie iai Iaine:5t
! Plans and Specifications should ~ AZ
: dressed to the Secretary, J. H. Miller, ea-e
| Of the RECoRD-UyIoN office Sa.risrs4e5,fs,.
They viii be received up to ard Including
| January 2lst.
| One plan that meets vita more f4sor
than any other, so far, is 10 ercot a s.o1umu
forty feet in hight, made WIG large b4se
and slightly tapering toward ITS top, on the
apex of which viii be placed a colossal
statue of the disooyerer Of geld n bronze.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-02

The REcogD-UNToS is the only paper on
the coast, outside Of San francisco, that re-
ceives the full Associated Press dispatches from
all parts Of the 10orId. Outside Of san Fran
cisco t has no competitor, IN point OF num-
berS, IN its home and general circulation
throughout the coast.