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

climate, with opportunities to obtain
homes at reasonable prices. | answer YOU
unhesitatingly, in Northern California.
In that region there are 100000 square
miles, or 100000 acres, of land That
region has only five and one-half people
to the square mile. There is room, there
fore. for millions more people, and then
be less thickly settled than Eastern
States. Here there is no winter to
cover your farms with snow and ice
and prevent field work That is the time
of blowing and sowing here The six months
that you spend where you are, in the con-
sumption of your summer earnings, is here
all devoted to production. Your animals,
instead of being housed and consuming
forage to sustain life, are grazing out OF
doors on green heritage. The earth is
clothed in her greenest robes and decked
with her fairest flowers. Land is compare
lively cheap, water is abundant, the soil
rich and productive, and timber easily ac-
cessible. Since the American occupation
-thirty-six years age
THE VALLEYS HAVE SEEN NO WINTERS.
There is no ice, nor snow, nor billiards.
| There are no summer tornadoes, and there
Is no reliable record of sunstroke. You
can have all the semi-tropic productions
oranges, lemons, tigs, olives, pomegranates,
etc.-and all the delicious grapes of South
ern Europe. The health statistics show a
| remarkably low percentage of sickness and
death. The markets are good, and trans
portation facilities rapid and cheap. You
| will find all the comforts and luxuries of
| life here-schools, churches and printing
presses. There is no locality without its
district school, and all parts of the country
| are within easy reach of the higher insti-
tutions of education. A small capital of
81 900 and upward, with industry and
| economy, will lay the foundation of home
| that will be an Eden on earth Here YOU
| will escape the burdensome taxation of
winter and that alone-as you have seen
in the above-will be enough to buy and
stock farm. You will, in addition, enjoy
a climate that will be a revelation to you"
In another portion of this issue will be
found an extended article upon the pro-
ducts of lands of Sacramento county, which
is largely applicable to the whole Central
| and Northern California region, if we add
that grains are more grown in the valley
north Of us. 1t is not proposed, therefore,
| IN this place to refer more extendedly to
the productions of the valley, though their
seml-tropic character and capacity for
citrus fruit culture, now being largely en-
gagged in, might well command our atten-
ton in several columns of exposition. We
come now to the
BUSINESS CLAIMS AND ADVANTAGES OF
THE CITY.
Sacramento is the center of the railroad
system. Early in its history it became
distributing point and manufacturing CEN
ter for the mining region. Its Importance
as distributing point was limited to the
area OF profitable transportation by wagon
roads from the head of navigation by bay
going steamers. Eventually a new era
dawncd upon the history of California.
The construction of the Central Pacific
Railroad eastward from Sacramento was
the first real step in laying the lines of
rail communication. That system of rail-
roads has, and will continue, to control
the channels of the great inland commerce
of the entire Pacific Coast, and from the
first Sacramento has been and will con-
tlnue to be, the focal center of that system.
At Sacramento the great overland rail
road, which is the highway of COM
merce and travel between the populations
Of the Atlantic and Pacific divisions of the
country, found tide-water terminus. This
line extends eastward 5000 miles. Sacra-
mento at once became Through point. :"
| position she has ever since maintained.
enjoying terminal rates for Eastern freight.
As relating to all commerce carried by
railroad between California and the At
lantlc States Sacramento is the great ma
tural center of collection and distribution.
AT Sacramento this commerce finds. for
collection, converging lines, as follows:
The California and Oregon Railroad.
north through all the fertile Sacra-
mento valley, through the Sislliyou noun
talns, and thence the Oregon and Califor-
MIA Railroad leads into the great agricult-
ural lands of Southern Oregon and up the
Oregon valleys to Portland. the metropolis
of that State. On this line, from Marys-
vile to Oroville, is a railroad % miles in
extent, leading to the most fertile section
for citrus fruit culture in all the valley
and foothill region
to Benicia, through the rich lands of So
lano and Yolo, and by a division of the
road to Vallejo, connecting with the line
of road leading up that modern Eden,
the Napa valley. A road is also
now building to connect with the
California Pacific that will soon
bring Sacramento into immediate
connection with Sonoma county, one of
the richest agricultural sections on the
globe. From Davisville, on the line of
the California Pacific, on the west side of
the Sacramento river, through the great
grain fields of Colusa, Yolo and Tehama,
the Northern Railway leads northerly to
Tehama, where it unites with the Califor-
MIA and Oregon Thus Sacramento is re-
lated by rail with the valley on both sides
of the river. From this west-side line
branch is pushing westward and northward
to and through Lake county uplands, with
its objective point far up the coast upon
Humboldt Bay. So, too, from Colusa, on
the Sacramento river, line OF road con-
meets with the Northern Railway, and,
crossing it, is penetrating Lake county far
to the west. From the California Pacific
line at Elmira the Vaca Valley and Clear
Lake Railroad is extending from Madison
also into Lake county. Thus by three dis
tinct rail lines the Lake county region is
related, commercially, to Sacramento. On
the Northern Railway, at Woodland, a
branch line leads to Knights Landing,
upon the Sacramento river
Other lines leading TO Sacramento are
the Central Pacific, from Ogden, in Utah
Territory, through the length of the great
mining region of Nevada, a distance of
IA miles.
At Ogden, the Utah Central and South
ern open up railroad communication
southwark, and by the Montana Railroad,
northward
Connection is also made at Palisade with
the line running to Eureka, distance of
ninety miles, and at Battle Mountain with
the line 10 Austin, distance of ninety
three miles.
At Reno, connecting with the cities of
Carson, the capital of Nevada, and Vir-
ginia City, the metropolis of that State,
by the Virginia and Truckee Railroad,
distance of ffty-two miles,
The Nevada County Railroad, following
a line parallel with the trend of the noun
tains from the cities of the Nevada and
Grass Valley, the largest mining cities in
the State, connect at Colfax, distance of
% miles.
From Placerville, FL Dorado county, the
seat Of one of the most fruitful and prom
Using mountain sections in the State, the
Sacramento and Placerville Railroad leads
to, and terminates at Sacramento, SO miles,
The Southern Pacific Railroad LEADING