Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-14
CAPAY VALLEY AND ESPERANZA-
THE MEANING OF THEIR DEvEL-
0PMENT.


THE MEANING OF THEIR DEVEL-
OPMENT.
We present this morning an elaborate
yet perfectly clear and easily comprehensi-
importance, not only to this immediate
vicinity, but to Central California and in
deed to the whole State. 1t concerns the
methodical opening to small settlement,
upon terms of the most inviting character,
of one of the richest and in all respects
best conditioned valleys in the State-one
that for the earliest fruits known to the
market has but one or two rivals. We are
justified by observation, by the indubita-
bic proofs elsewhere orderly and logically
marshaled, and by the topography,
meteorology, the statistics of production,
and the evidences to-day cited, in greatly
intensifying that statement. In doing so,
we do not hesitate an instant in saying
that for early fruit-growing, and for happy
combination of all conceivable favorable
ton desirable for fruit and vine culture,
and vegetable product, there is not any
where upon the American continent an
other spot that does or can make stronger,
if as strong, affirmative showing as the
Capay valley.
Z" An equable and genial climate" said
"a a+iY oh = r Al
potent aids to individual comfort and ma
tional progress" If to this essential quail
ity of a locality we add soil Of the most
fertile character and in harmonious accord
with the growth of nearly all semi-trop-
ical products, as well as those of the tenn
perate zone local climatology that Won
derfully stimulates horticulture and VIII
culture, and exceptionally favors and en-
courages industries inseparable from their
successful prosecution; and if these rare
conditions are supplemented by location
the geography Of which solves the prob
lem of lessening distance by abbreviating
time between orchard and market. and re-
duceS them to the minimum consistent
with reasonableness; and if still we add to
this combination of desirable conditions a
wise administration in so settling and sub
dividing the lands as to favor preponder-
ance of small homes, and great diversity of
cultivation, and limitless persistence by a
large body of industrious and intelligent
small landowners, we have the ideal rural
region and community The nearest ap-
proach to full realization of these condi-
tions and possibilities of which we have
knowledge in any effort to settle and de-
yelop a given section in Central or
Northern California, is promised by the
enterprise of developing Capay valley.
If this is by the unadvised, those
not personally familiar with this mar
Vicious concentration of productive con-
ditions, deemed extravagant asseveration,
we invite them TO careful reading of the
columns Of this mornings REcoRD-UNIoN
devoted to the subject, confident that-ac-
ceptins our vouches for their authentic
and veraeious character-conviction Of the
entire reasonableness of the assertion will
result.
We consider the announcement of the
opening of this prolific valley to small set
Element, according to a well-matured and
carefully adjusted scheme, as having a
specially important and direct relation to
the populating aud developing of the
whole state, from the fact that it is the
first practical and entirely feasible effort
made in Central California to locate and
put into immediate agricultural industry
large community of small land culti-
vators, who are to devote themselves
mainly to fruit and ne-growing. The
men who have taken these Capay valley
lands and subdivided them according to
the scheme set forth in the
exhaustive article we this morning
present = and which is the result
of personal inspection and intelligent and
laborious research by a member of the
REcoRD-UNIoN staff-are related to the
most prominent railway interests of the
State. The syndicate they compose has
not, 1t viii be seen, speculation in land
primarily in view, but larger, better and
more commendable aim. That is to say.
these lands are being pierced by an i'm
portant line of railroad that will operate
as feeder to the great railway system of
the State; it will tap large area that has
not heretofore been related by rail to the
commerce of the coast; it is to open up
sections of the Coast range region that
possess strong attractions for the tourist, in
the first place, and that are pregnant with
richest promise of high productive value
in soil, forest and mine, in the second
place.
With foresight that does the business
sense of the members of the syndicate in
finite credit, they resolved that the rail-
way interest resides in the settlement of
the country along the line of this feeder
by small holdings, to the retirement of
the very large land holdings that have
heretofore prevailed. The Capay valley
is the initial territory through which the
road passes, and that is therefore the first
to be made an invitation to the home
seeker of small and of moderate means.
The settlement of the valley by many peo-
pie thus conditioned, is, as must be seen
by even the obtuse, most contributive to
the business of line of transportation.
By conserving the interests of small cult
yators, therefore, the syndicate by the
very broadest and most direct method pro-
NOTES the carrier interests to which it is
related. 1t will be seen that there have
been no concealments in the matter; that
the promoters of the enterprise lay bare
their purposes, and put them squarely
abreast OF the presentation of the natural
and intrinsic claims of the valley. and the
several towns located in it-and referred
to in our article, extendedly.