Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-14
Its Geographical Location, Soil, Climate,
Railroad Communication and Fu-
ture Prosperity.

The completion of the Woodland, Ca
pay and Clear Lake Railroad, from Madi-
son, Yolo county, to Rumsey, at the head
of Capay valley, has revealed to the world
country hitherto practically unknown
Those ordinarily well informed have little
or no knowledge of this beautiful and fer
tile valley, situated in the very heart of
the State. Yolo county, which lies i'm
mediately across the river from Sacra-
mento, the Capital of the State, is a very
rich, populous and fertile county. 1t has
as favorable climatic conditions and as di-
versifed agriculture and horticulture as
any part OF California. Immediately
on the border of the county, and
within the same belt of territory, lies
the great early fruit belt of this State
Whatever may be said concerning the mat
ter, whatever differences of opinion may
have existed, however much the contre-
versy may have intensified concerning the
advantages of different sections of Califor-
MIA, nobody has ever denied that fruit
growing has found the highest manifesto
tion at Nacaville and in Vaca valley. 1t
has reached a stage of maturity that
no other part of the State can
show. The people engaged in fruit cult
ure there have higher intelligence on
the subject, because they have had more
extended experience. They have met with
a degree of success that has not attended
fruit culture in any other part of California
on the same scale. 1t is not contended
and will not be by anybody, that they
grow better fruit at Vacaville than any
other part of the country, for they do
not. 1t is contended-and the contention
is we'll affirmed by the fact that the local
ity is earlier, on account of climatic con-
ditions which are due to cOnfguration-
that fruit-growing has had better exem-
plifeation at Vacarille, on commercial
basis, than anywhere else in California.
1t has been successful on more extended
scale. 1t has arisen to the plane of great
commercial enterprise. There has con-
centrated at that point the widest and
most diversified experience. and that
experience has eliminated in the mosi
satisfactory results.
THE BASIS OF Az EMPIRE
If fruit-growing in California is to rise
to the plane Of a great commercial enter
prise, as sugar-cane planting in the Sand
iTich Islands, IS sugar-growIng in Louisi-
ana, as wine-making in France, as raisin-
making in Spain, as wheat-growing in
Minnesota, as corn-growing in the
great Western States and in
the Mississippi valley, as cotton
growing in the Gulf States, 1t will do SO |
first in localities analogous to Naca valley. |
It is the belief of the most careful and in |
tsIigent Observers that the growing of |
fruit In California for consumption in the |
rest of the world will be as broadly estab |
lished as the growing of cotton in the |
Gulf States for consumption throughout |
tIse world. 1t has been the fault of men,
in contemplating this question of fruit /
growing, that they cannot divorce them
selves from the manner in which fruits |
were grown in the older States. They
look upon fruitrgrowing as species of
gardening. They contemplate it as hav-
ing success ooly on the plane of garden
ing. They persist in regarding it as
a small culture, to be done with
the left hand to supplement some