Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-09-08
BIGGS And VICINITY.
As it is Nov, and What 1t
May Become.
VARIOUS SOILS AND PRODUCTS.
Wonderful and Incompatible Re-
sources-Water System for Irri-
CATION Small Holdings
Prices of Lands-A Place
for Homeseekers.

4 widespread and almost insatiate de-
sire prevails throughout the older States,
particularly those east of the Missouri
river, for concise, precise, complete and
reliable information concerning California.
For many months the RECORD UNION
made a specially OF articles descriptive of
various localities in Northern and Central
California, presenting only such informa-
ton as was Of unquestionable reliability
and the imperative demand, as evidenced
by constant inquiries and importunings
pouring into this office for further in
formation, prompts US to resume the series
with this issue.
The all-important question with people
80 happily situated that their financial
resources permit them the choice of loca-
tion, is, where can we live with the greatest
comfort, surrounded by the most convent
ences, enjoy the most pleasant and equable
climate, and get the greatest satisfaction
out Of life? The principal requirements
sought for by such people are a healthy
clinIate, free alike from excess i've heat in
summer and the extreme rigor of the cold
Northern winters; place where easily
accessible institutions of learning will
afford their children opportunity to
receive the education which will
ut them to adorn the station in
life they may be expected to fill in
naturer years; some want beautiful seem
cry, others want neighborbood where
they can find amusement, either at places
Of fashionable resort or it may be at out
of-door sports OF hunting and fishing.
\ few there will be seeking opportuni-
ties to invest their capital proftably and
have it under their own eye, instead of
iutrusting its management TO distant
agents; but the vast majority desire to find
some place which, while it has all the first
named advantages, also furnishes oppor-
tunities for engaging IN some healthful
and profitable business, which will employ
their time wi thout being irksome and not
only give them income, but increase their
accumulated wealth.
No country in the world offers such ad-
vantages to the classes of whom we speak
u does the United States, and no State in
the whole Union can in these respects be-
gin 10 compare with California. No sec
ton on the Pacific slope can excel, and
only very few compare fayorably to
themselves with the area under considera-
ton in this article. None have greater
opportunities for wonderful variety OF
prosperous industries; none so large tract
of fertile land none any richer soil, and
in no civilized country is there land which
Yields so much to the cultivator and so
accessible to the best markets, that can be
had at such low prices.
The steady prosperity of its many in
habitants has served TO make them apa-
thetic about making known the great
natural wealth Of their section, hardly yet
developed, or Of themselves availing to a
one-tenth part of the actual resources of
the soil. While less favored counties of
California have spent hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars in advertising their re-
sources, and have, in consequence, attract
ed an immense and happy immigration to
their localities, the people of this section
have pursued the even tenor of their way,
eontented to drift along couple of years
behind the times enjoying without osten-
tation the privileges and possessions which
were theirs, but making no efforts to ad-
yertise the wonderful resources at hand,
Or of appealing for or inviting immigra-
,ion or IN any manner seeking to keep
abreast of the times. Nsither is it our
purpose 10 try to create any impressions
regarding the locality that the closest in
quiry aad observation will not fully COR
roborate No extravagant estimates of
what can be made by locating here are
wanted by anybody; but plain, straight
forward, unvarnished description of the To-
cllity, just as il is, of what has been done
and what may be done by intelligent, well
directed and proper cultivation, is a kind
Of information desired in every quarter
and which it will be our endeavor to
furnish.
NSoP TO THE FRONT.
4 raw Irishman who, few weeks after
landing In the United States, obtained
employment with kind-hearted gentle.
man, asked his employer to write letter
for him 70 his friends in the ''ould coun.
try" After debating short introduction
and telling what his wages were, Pat con
tinued, "And l have mate once day.
"Whyl" said his employer, "you have
meat three times a day; for what do yor
tell such a lie as that?r "Begorra," say
Pat, 81 am telling them more now thar
they will believe"
To those who do not know by persona
observation and knowledge the capahili-
ties of the California soil, we ask them tt
keep in mind the gist of the foregoing
story, and recollect that We will be as care
ful as Pat in keeping within bounds. II
fact in msny instances, if actual yields o
grain and fruits we're presented We fear j
would be much more than many of on
readers IN other States and countries woult
be ready to believe. The presentation
however, viii be made in such a manne
and within such bounds that we can safel.
say, '-Cone and investigate; see for your
selves, and be more than convinced tina
the bes. has not yet been told.'
TIE CLIMATE