Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-03
EASTERN VIEW OF OUR DIFFICULTIES

cultural Association, made a valuable and
able address on the occasion of the recep.
ton rendered the Association in Sacra.
mento; valuable, as rejecting frankly the
sincere views of an intelligent, thinking
man concerning California. Ordinarily
the criticisms due to impressions received
by a tourists in rapid trip along the
longitudinal lines of the State are not OF
much value, for the reason that no hasty
Judgment can be formed of California, and
be just one. If it is the result of en-
thusiasm, Of cordial reception and special
entertainment, it is likely to be an over
estimate; if of personal observation in the
course of hasty travel and without study
of conditions, statistics, and communication
with the people, it is certain to be false
estimate. The visiting horticulturists
however, are here for the express purpose
of inquiry. They came with a fair and in.
telligent understanding In advance, of Cal.
ifornia, and the extent and character OF
her products; they have debated all the
questions of production, come into con-
tact with the producers, and had access to
all statistical and other proofs to which
they have added deliberate examination
of the several producing sections of the
State. 1t was not, therefore, overestima-
ton nor postprandial enthusiasm and the
graciousness Of the guest when President
Earl said:
When l see these things, going up and down
your fertile and beautiful yalleys-for they are
all beautiful and fertile-I cannot say too much
for the future of this Golden State The great
est, most beautiful most fertile valley in the
world extends from Mount Shasta on the north
TO Tehachapi on the south, embracing a terri
tory as large as New England. 1t is Yeritable
garden spot, with prolific soil, II sunshine of
heaven showering its bounteous blessing upon
IT. see In the valleys of the Sacramento and
San Joaquin, in the foothills of the Sierras, in
the slopes OF your Coast Range possibilities that
are amazing, In single township of Califor-
MIA 1t is possible to grow as many raisins as is
necessary to supply the demand in the entire
United states. We are deeply impressed with
the magnitude, we might say audacity that we
nave seen and heard about since our arrival in
California. Nothing is done on a small scale,
ana 10 produce great and abundant crops re-
CURES but little effort You can grow all the
fruits OF the world. 1t is wonderful how much
you can grow in one garden spot. Side by side
IN the same acre are growing to perfection
citrus, pone, the harder fruits of the North.
the gigantic pine and the waving palm You
can, as said, grow everything. and the weld OF
ali your crops is something wonderful. Cali
fornla can produce for the next 100 years 10
come all the frnit consumed by the American
people. She to day can supply the 65, 100000 OF
people in the United States when our popula-
tion decreases 10 200 900 900 she can keen nm
with the demand. She has the land and the
climate, and with husbandmen enough she can
supply the whole great round world and have
plenty 10 spare and don't know but what YOU
are undertaking 10 do it too for some orchard
lists who have 500 and 900 acres in bearing
trees are still planting, doubling up their or
chards putting out new ones ON euually rs
large n scale and vineyards of several thousand
acres each are not looked upon as anything on
very grand scale.
When Mr.. Earl says that abundant crops
are produced with but little effort he
speaks, of course, in comparative sense.
Compared with the efforts required of the
Eastern agriculturist, it is true that our
own are feeble; compared with the OBJ
stacles confronting them, our paths are
smooth and thornless. But the idea must
not be encouraged that in California there
can be attained excellence without labor.
Fortunes do not lie idle upon the high
ways, and though Pactolus runs with every
mountain stream, there is neither gold nor
silver to be taken from the soil except by
labor backed by energy and determination.
The lazy and improvident will find no
welcome, and those who anticipate real
lied paradise here, and only hours of ease
will find that without industry neither are
possible.
President Earl thoughtfully warns us
that we have some serious problems to
solve. The chief of these, he suggests, is the
demand for the right kind of labor. He
says:
The immense grain fields of your valley do
not require many laborers to handle them. A
man can handle 1000 acres of wheat with fit
teen or twenty men. When this is put into or
chards and vineyards or berry gardens he will
need ten, twenty, or fifty times as many laborers
70 carry on that work. Where will You get
those laborers? We cannot spare them. Soae
are coming over here now, but they come as en-
ployers Of labor, and not as laborers. Where viii
you get the requisite help is question of seri-
Gus moment.
To THIS problem intelligent Californians
are not blind. They realize that it must
present itself to every inquirer, and may
cause some to hesitate about Investing in
this State. But We in California believe
that the labor means to meet the demands
OF augmenting production will develop.
As our large land holdings break up great
farming must cease. The small farmers
viii become the more numerous orchards
of ten and twenty acres will he the rule
rather than the exception, and horticulture,
instead of engaging here and there large
orchardist, will enlist the labors of hun
dreds Of small growers. The man with a
family living upon twenty acres of vine or
fruit land will, save in the harvest season,
be able to take care of his place with per-
haps the help of a single farm laberer, for
whom he can find employment the year
round. In the picking and packing sea-
son there VIII for considerable time be a
great demand for hands. But this can.
We think, be supplied from the cities
largely. And besides stimulating the lrbor
ef the family ia the orchard, we viii re-
eeive in Applicability large immigration
freRl the vast pOaSlation of negroes In the
South, the advance guard of which has al
ready reached us. In short, as said al
ready, We viii find chat the supply siil
presently meet the dezand.
1t has been steadily published abroad
that we do not now wanA an immigration
Of men without some means to invest in
the development of the resources Of the
State. With the ebb os Chinese labor, the
supply Of which must ere long practically
cease, there will be soon roam for and en-
enlargement 10 the labor os the East to
come TO US just in proportion SIS We are
able to employ it. The higher wages con-
sequent upon the shortness of supply Will
prove strong attraction and induce
current to set this way equal to our needs.