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move 100000 from the same sections to
eastern Kansas and Nebraska. Where
vast areas Of sparsely-settled and unin-
hablted territory were inviting the enter
prising pioneers, comparative advantages
have been very closely scanned. For
nearly twenty-five years the intending i'm
migrant has had his choice of an almost
unlimited variety of climatic, social and
commercial conditions. Comparatively,
the prices asked for land in California
were higher than the rates demanded else
where west of the Mississippi river To the
superficial view, land in California had
reached its maximum in value Good ag-
ricultural land in the Northwestern and
Western States is deemed to have reached
Its highest point at value of $50 to $50
an acre. Twenty years ago good agricultural
land in California reached this stage of de-
velopment. When, therefore, the immigrants
had their choice between Texas, Kansas,
Nebraska, Colorado, Minnesota and Da-
kota, where lands were obtainable from
s. to $40 an acre. as against California,
where agricultural land was held at from
SD to $50 an acre. they chose the former
localities, under the somewhat UNSUITABLE
but mistaken belief that lands in Califor-
MIA had already reached their full develop
ment They were basing their estimate of
the possible valuation of land upon its ca
pacities for producing grain, wheat, cattle
and hogs. They were oblivious of the
fact that climate is controlling factor in
the capabilities of the soil. When land is
purchased at SO an acre, which through
cultivation and improvement may develop
value OF $50 an acre, We have an en-
haneement of 800 per cent. of the original
purchase price; but where the climate adj
mits of culture which makes it possible
to take land at $50 an acre, and, by devot-
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man bee hive. For months past, W. H.
Mills, the land agent'of the Southern Pa
eff Railroed, has given his first thought
to this work. L has almost monopolized
his attention. lie has at bis disposal
something like thirteen thousand acres
OF Capay valley land, along the line of
the new railroad His surveyors have
blocked all this off into twenty-acre
tracts, and large Autographed maps are
printing, showing the "lay of the land |"
admirably. Numerous photographic views
have been taken of typical scenes
in the valley, and from these faithful en-
cravings have been made, to be used in il
Illustrating the vast amount of descriptive
matter which is to be published to the
world, making known the beauty and the
resources of Capay valley. The visitor at
Mr., Mills Office will find him generally
discussing the Capay valley enterprise, and
the pictures, maps, etc, lying about him
and in every corner of his Office would
lead a stranger to think that the chief
business Of the land department of the
great railroad corporation was confined to
operations in Capay valley. And there
would be more than half truth in asserting
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nypge tract. The town of Esperanza, con-
tanning $50 lots, lies entirely on the south
side of the track. A plaza is reserved in
the center of the town. Contiguous to
and surrounding the town are the 81
twenty-acre fruit and garden farms, upon
which the railroad proposes locating a
thrifty class of people. Whether any of
these small farms will he offered for sale
upon the 23d depends upon contingencies,
but Mr. Mills intends that all these shall
be in the possession of actual settlers, and
the homes of actual residents before
Christmas.
The Bonynge tract is beautiful piece
of land, and its deep and fertile soil is cas-
lily susceptible Of irrigation. 4 handsome
two-story depot is already completed in
Esperanza, and number of other substan-
tial improvements by private individuals
have been commenced. The founding of
other towns on the Barber & Steiner tract.
to be called Guinda, and another named
Cadenasso, at Cadenassos, will speedily
follow.
The railroad people have given Yolo
people fair warning TO wake up, and il
appears to the Mad that it is high time
We did wake up. To use little slang,
we have got to get in and dance to the
quickening music of progress, or as Mills
says, "go beg for permit to bury our
selves" There is no use for ANYBODY to
lay back and belly-ache about it; the
railroad is going to boom Capay valley
and kickers" might Just as well sue
cumb to the inevitable first as last. We
want to see the Capay Valley Land Com
pany fill the valley so full of people that
the abundance of the population will
foam over and spread or, over the sur
face of the county. Capay, Madison
and Woodland need not vainly and
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for bu lding up happy and prosperous homes.
loTIr company has shown a great amount OF
tact and knowle lge in the proper selection IF
land. No more beautiful fruit region exists
than that covered by your recent purchases N
Capay valley. The certainty of an abundant
water supply from the great Clear IL Ike Ieser-
yoir, the deep rich sedimentaTy soil. almos, rer
feet climatic c1nditiOus indicate as great sue
cess in the formation of fruit colonies and
centers of civiiiZing influence as can be found
such as are shown az Riverside and Pas
dena-all point 10 the tact that you should look
u the future of lis moral and educational devel-
opmeHt
1t is acknowledged by all of the best minds of
the country, that the productive Industry of the
people is i "a great measure destroyed by inten
pera'e habits Why not recognize this great
fact, VIII oh has been Illustrated ny Mr. ST ufoId
III his PROV sion, that 10 intoxicating liquors
shall be sold at or his university? Is it not
Pc sible for You in your company t so arrange
your iaud sales tht the temperance principle
shall, adhere to your laud
No town VIII .ch is 10 be the center of fruit
producing population should be without the
best facilities for the education If the children
o; The surrounding families Successful fruit
men are usually intelligent. Intelligent people
at the pre- ept time are seeking for Just such con-
ditionS as you can make by making your colo
mics like Riverside and Observation-Disclosures
colonies. Then why not do so? 1t would W.
douh' eddy be one of the grsndeSt elements in
aid of your plans-attractiDg just such a popu-
lation as would make a complete sucoess-and
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Francisco and Eastern markets will, when
this land is put under cultivation, receive
the earliest consignments of fruits and veg
etables from this locality.
The third picture is from Photographic
view of portion of the orchard adjoining
the townsite of Cadanasso. 1t shows the
orange trees in bearing and their thrifty
growth. -.a..
The fourth is from a photographic view
taken on the Rhodes tract, comprising
] 200 acres of land. The entire tract pre-
sents the same general appearance as
shown in the illustration.
The fifth is a Photographic view of the
present terminus of the road and the site
of the town of Rumsey This townsite is
situated in nearly the center Of 900 acres
of land which will be subdivided into
small tracts, and sold only to actual set
tiers.
The sixth scene represents a locality
near the upper end of the valley, within a
short distance of the townsite of Rumsey.
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OUR ILLUSTRATIONS.
From Photographic Views Taken in
Capay Valley.

FROM Photographic views Iaken III
Capay Valley.
Beside the map presented on the first
page, this issue will be found to contain
six Illustrations, which are from photo
graphic views taken in Capay valley.
The first is a combination picture, made
up of homes, orchards and vineyards in
the valley. The landscape picture, COM
prising the oak trees and the ground, is
from a photograph of the Barber & Steiner
tract, which contains 300 acres in the
heart Of CapaI valley, and will be subdi-
vided into twenty-acre tracts, with a town
site, which has been named Ciuinda, in the
center
The second scene is from Photographic
view of the Barber & Steiner tract of l 300
acres, surrounding the town site of Guinda,
and is perfectly typical Of the entire tract,
every acre presenting the same general
surface. 1t is warm, responsive, alluvial
soil, in the earliest fruit belt of the State
of California. 1t is especially adapted to
fruit and garden vegetables, and the San
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ing it to those productions permitted by
the higher possibilities of climate, make It
worth from $500 to $500 an acre, we have
a resultant percentage of from 1000 per
cent to 1900 per cent. of the purchase
price of $50.
AN ACCEPTED FACT.
Almost at any time within the past
twenty years, land adapted to viticulture
could be bought in this State at from 500
TO $50 an acre, where, at the same time.
fully developed bearing vineyard was
salable at from $500 to $500 per acre.
What is true Of vine-growing is equally
true of citrus culture, and the experiments
in orange-growing in Los Angeles and San
Bernardino counties have merely demon
strated these truths. More than this, they
have familiarized the Eastern mind with
the fact that superiority of climate en-
larges the range of production, and CORE
spondingly augments the possibilities Of
development in the value of the soil. The
rapid influx of Eastern immigration into
Southern California and the ready accent
ance on the part Of that immigration of
the prices asked for lands prove coaclu-
sively that these great economic facts have
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PRESS COMMENTS.
What the Newspapers Are Saying q
Cspay Valley.

"HH1 INC NeWspapers Are Saying of
Cspay Valley.
Under date of June lst, the Woodland
Mail published the following:
The Woodland 1Iaa has the following ::
The promise of the new era of prosperity,
so long looked for by the people Of Yoio
county, is found in the now developing
plans and purposes of the Capay Valley
Land Company. Those who have not
given particular attention to the projected
railroad and town building enterprises in
that beautiful valley, little know upon
what an elaborate scale and with what
careful preparation and detail this com
peny Is working to transform it into hui
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Oddities in Menu.
Parrots are eaten in Mexico.

Parrots are eaten In Mexico.
Spiders are considered delicacy roasted
in the New Caledonias.
Silk worms are looked upon as delicious
in China.
Snails, frogs legs and geese lvers are
epicurean dishes in France.
Caterpillars are to Africans like reed
bird on toast.
Ants are stewed and served up in both
Africa and Brazil
Birds nests of the edible sort bring
their weight in silver for the tables of rich
Chinese mandarins.
Bees are eaten regularly by the Cinga-
lese
Skunk is hunted as desirable game by
the natives of the Argentine Republic.
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A Professor of Natural History wandered
away from the Smithsonian the ether day
and got into lawyers Office on + street,
where there is very pompous young
clerk. The Professor asked two or three
questions on the point at issue, and the
clerk finally remarked to him very largely /:
i" tell you it's true, and it is true. What
do you know aboat law, anyway "Noth-
ing, nothing at all" replied the Professor,
meekly; but | know great deal about
natural history, and think your an as"
Washington Critic.
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My son. said Mr.. Spriggins to his
little son, Who was devouring an egg-it
was Mr.. Spriggins' desire to instruct the
boy" my son, dc you know that chickens
come out of eggs" "Do they, father :"
said the young hopeful; i thought the
reverse" The elder Spriggins drew back
from the table sadly, and gazed on his son,
then put On his hat and went out.
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Rocky Mountains, and the shores of the
Pacific, together with the constantly d.
minishing cost of communication between
the two sections under consideration, will
eliminate the last barrier to the rapid
growth of this State, and confer upon us
all the benefits to which we are entitled
by reason of the natural and sexual
superiority of our climate.
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INTEREST AWAKENED.
Great Future Predicted for Capay
Valley.

tduey.
That deep interest is already being
taken in the movement for the develop
ment of Capay valley is evidenced by the
following letter, written by DR.. r. B.
Blowers, the most successful raisin-maker
in California, to William H. Mills, as
agent of the Capay Valley Land Company.
He advocates the adoption of the prohibi-
ton plan for the deeds of conveyance, but
incidentally bears testimony to the favora-
bic climatic conditions of the valley for
the growth of fruits Throughout Cali
fornia the testimony of Dr. Blowers on
this subject will be deemed conclusive
first, by reason Of the entire competency
of the witness, and second, by reason of
his perfect credibility. The letter is as
follows:
WOODLAND June g. 1883.
Nm. H. NILS, Esq, San Francisco Cal-DEAR
SIR have been very much interested in your
movement to settle the land in the western part
of our county with a thrifty, fruit growing
population, and building up the necessary
towns. which naturally follow your SUCCESS in
that direction Being an old citizen Of Yolo
county, naturally take great interest in what
conceive to be the proper development of its
resources, and It's consequent enlarged capacity
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ndolently imagine that the railroad owes
hem anything. That the company is
eady to cooperate with the enterprising
itizens of Yolo county in building it up
10 one doubts, but that it will spend a
lollar or waste a moment of time to benefit
community that won't try to benefit
tself is unsafe as betting proposition.
The Woodland Nail devoted another
ditorial to this subject ON a subsequent
ay, as follows:
The Nail is in receipt of reliable in
which goes far to encourage the
lope that all the colonies established in
Iapay valley by the railroad folks will
e protected from the saloon evil by a
lause in all the deeds to the land, inhib-
tive of the retail liquor business The
eautiful town laid out by Senator STAN
ord around his University is so shielded
brewer; and it will readily be believed
hat the same cogent and inevitable reas-
ms that actuated and justified this course
n one instance will be consistently consid-
red in another Because we know that
he shrewd, far-seeing and broad-miuded
itizens who form the Capay Valley Land
company are determined to make no mis-
axe, we feel confident they will do the
right thing at the right time for
beautiful Capay valley. 1t is grand
work they have accomplished in
breaking up some of the vast hold
ings in the valley and peopling them
with a thrifty and intelligent class
of people, but it will be grander
thing if after so breaking up and SO
peopling these lands, they dedicate
them to decency and sobriety, to
honest industry and peace, to home
and happiness,
eff Esperanza is not protected
from the saloon at the very outset,
the company will see from six to ten
groggeries running full blast in the
place in wooden shanties before
Christmas. They will "hoodoo" the
town. They will not attratt honest
BODYBUILDING citizens. They will
not add anything socially, morally,
intellectually to the fame of Capay
valley.
"Across the Sacramento river from
Yolo county lies Suffer county, where
there are three saloons. The Board
of Supervisors over there slapped a
big license onto the business and
shut all the rest down, and the good
citizens of Suffer, discovering no
particular Use for even these three
rum-mills, are thinking seriously of
giving the crank another turn and
closing them out Just as Riverside
did. The people of Yolo county are
in the same mood, and the prospects
are good that even should Esperanto
be started as saloon town." the
great and good conscience of the
people operating through the county
government would guarantee the
town the protection which its found
ers had not given it. But the Capay
Valley Land Company we do not
think will shirk any responsibility
of this kind upon the people, but will
take the leading and progressive
steps towards higher and better
order of things, and doubly earn the
gratitude of the vast majority of our
citizens, who have Just right to con-
slider that the saloon is the political
evil and the social curse of our noble
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wheat-producing sections of the State, hut
that industry will have to give way TO the
more profitable one of fruit-raising.
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Better little wit to lift the latch than
lie strens h of an OK to force the gate,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-22
WALL STREET SPECTATORS.
The Success of Professional Men IL
Speculation.

The Success of Professional Men in
Speculation.
NEW YORK, July 21.-The case of ex-
Surrogate Robert C. Hutchings which has
latterly excited so much comment in New
York, calls attention not merely to the in
teresting circumstances attending his
shameful downfall but to the fact that he
is one of a considerable number of profes-
sional men who have become more or less
distinguished in Wall street and elsewhere
in the business quarter Of the metropolis.
Hutchings was the son of a furniture
dealer who gave him a legal education.
The young lawyer married the daughter Of
Richard B. Connolly, the infamous comp
troller Of New York under the Tweed re-
gime, and known everywhere as "Slippery
Dick the most despicable in his avarice
and slyness of any Of the coterie that once
plundered New York with a high band
With the money derived from
his marriage with Mrs. Hutch
ings, and 81 100000 lett him by the
exiled comptroller, he cut quite a swath in
Wall street where he was known as a thigh
roller That is to say, he did not specu-
late on so large a scale as such operators for
example as Addison Cammack, who is now
understood TO be short some 3 900 shares
of Lake Shore, but he would nevertheless
at times swing line of 10000 shares of
stocks and for while he was quite success
full. Finally he met with some reverses, as
all spectators pure and simple do. The
man Of millions il he stays in the game
long enough will meet the fate Of the man
with a few hundred he has more money
but be speculates ON larger scale aud can
lose more. Hutchings finally went
TO Paris and he has been sent
to an insane asylum there He is
still very wealthy and his relatives are
quayreling over his property about as they
would II he were dead His insanity it Is
said in Wal street is due 20 excuses.
As 10 professional men who drift into
speculative circles, there was physician
among the shouting brokers Of the stock
exchange a few years ago who met with
strange vicissitudes. He had a wealthy
brother. who greatly aided him but finally
committed suicide at the old st. Nicholas
hotel on Broadway. The broker, v DO was
educated as physician, had no business
capacity whatever, and after hi. brothers
death met with 30 many reyerses that he
was obliged 10 sell his seat IA tbe STOCK ex-
change and tbea step by step ae descsnd6d
the ladder until he became . conductor on a
street rail say. An d brOtor was thun-
derstFuek al seeing him nil}ng that posi-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-22

Fernandna, July 21-Arriyed, steamship Della
ware, Chichester, New York; schr Nellie T
Morse, Roberts, Charleston.
Cleared, hrig Sparkling Water, Hichborn,
Demerara; schr VIM r Drury, Sweetland. Baltl-
more.
New York July 19-Cleared. steamship Boston
City (Br), Smith, Pensacola
Chartered, bark Arbela (Br), Pensacola to
MontevideO for orders, lumber, SIG, option of
Buenos Ayres, S16 so; schr Carrie S Bailey,
Dohoy to New York, lumber, in place of the
Belle Higgins.
Buenos Ayres. June 12-Sailed, bark Huano
(NOr), Hoyer, Brunswick.
Deal, July 19-Passed, steamship Thornhin
G8r), Wetherill, st Simons, Ga, for West Hartle-
pool.
Genoa, July 1o-Arrived, bark Marie (Aus),
Bo-liiri- Pensacola .~...
Isle of Wight July 1s-Passed bark Oskar
RUS. SkybergSen, Brunswick via Cork for
Copenhagen.
Lizard, July 19-Passed, bark Annita Menotti
QtaD, Lagana, Pensacola for West I1artlepool
Penarth Roads, July 19-Arrived, bark Cardiff
(Aus) Hagsia, Pensacola.
Tarifa, July S-Passed bark Idea QtaD, Cas-
tellotti, Pensacola for Spezzia.
West Hartlepool. July 1S-Arrived, bark Sirius
(NOr), Fornebo, Darien.
Barbados June 29-Sailed, banks P c Peter
son (Nor), Schmidt, Pensacola; July 5, Ino (Sw)
Bremberg, Fernandina.
Boston, July 16-Arrived, schr Otello, Bond
Brunswick.
Brunswick, Ga, July 19-Arrived. bark Norma
Ger. Bermuda.
Charleston, July l9-sailed, schr Nellie T
Key West, July 1S-Arrived, bark Elvina,
Curtis, New York.
Pensacola. July 1O-Arrived, stmr Starlight
(Brl, Hindle, New Orleans.
Cleared, ships w II Corsar (Br), Brown, Liver
pool; Greenock (NOr), johnson, do.
Satilla River, Ga, July 15-Arrived, schr
Austin D Knight, Perry, New York via Bruins
wick.
New York, July 21-Arrived out, steamship
France, New FORK for London
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EXPORTS.

Per steamship VIM Crane, for Baltimore
112 bales cotton 105 bbls spirits turpentine &c
bbIs rOsin, bbs pitch. bbls oil, 95 bdis hides,
rolls leather, 1913 pkgs fruit, 624 pkgs mdse.
Per steamship Juniata, for Philadelphia
Sc bales cotton, 118 bales domestics 81 casks
clay, - bales hides, 1l2 bbls spirits turpentine,
636 bbs rosin, 1872 feet lumber. 239 pkgs
fruit, 21s tons pig iron, 162l old rails, IA bbls r
oil. 47s empties, 112 pkgs mdse.
Per bark julius (Port, for Oporto-90, 04f feet
timber, 269, SOB feet lumber-Butler & Stevens
Per bark Kong Sverre CIor). for London-7s7
bbls roSin, weighing 357, $40 pounds 1,93s bDs
spirits turpentine measuring 9S104 gallons
Paterson, Downing q Co.
Per bark Varuna Ger, far Hamburg ,064
bbs spirits turpentine, measuring "a, 1872 gallons;
liza bbls rosin, Weighing S03, O0j pounds
Blodgett. NJ & Co, and ToIar Hart & Co.
Per schr Thos P Ball, for New York and AL
bany-296, 4O6 feet p lumber-Frierson & Co,
and Dale, Dixon s. Co.