Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-16
CALIFORNIA.
The Garden Spot of the World-We are
Loyal to all Sections.

The Garden Spot of the world-We are
Loyal to all Sections.
We have glorious State. Every portion
of il is good from the southern boundary
to Siskiyou. The warm current that breaks
upon the western shore for nearly 800
miles gives an equable temperature through
greater distance of latitude than can else
where be found on the habitable globe.
Oranges, and other semi-tropical fruits
grow in luxuriance from San Diego to
Shasta, and the warm belt of foothills of
the Sierras, that skirt the Sacramento val
ley for 200 miles north of this city, and for
100 south, has no equal, as fruit-produc-
ing section, on the continent, and as for
the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys,
they have no superior in the world Here,
as has oft been repeated,
Is THE coRNUcoPIA OF THE EARTH.
Nature, in bestowing her manifold bless
ings on the human race, seems to have out
done herselfin this section, where can be
found the production of every cline. the
climate that has no superior, and the sani-
tarium of the world. South of Tehachapi
there are some valleys of great fertility,
the soil is productive, the climate all that
could be desired, but the rivers of the north
are not to be found, and the small streams
and infrequent rains, together with the
sandy, rocky soil, makes extensive cultiva-
ton forever impossible. Men of the south,
who are loyal to their section, who desire
to secure all the immigration possible for
their portion of the State, are not altogether
truthful, and often their assertions regard
ing the north disclose total lack of knowl-
edge of this section, or else it is
wILLFUL MISREPRESENTATION.
They show the ''tenderfoot" a picture of
Mt. Shasta, its lofty summit 1900 feet in
hight, covered with the SHOWS of countless
winters, and shiver as they dilate upon the
frigidity of the climate in the Sacramento
valley. They point out on the map the
high ridge of the Sierras the boundary line
between California and Nevada, less than a
hundred miles from the State Capital, and
tell the immigrant who has fled from the
ice bound coast of Maine, or the rigors of a
Minnesota winter, that the tops of these
mountains are capped with the beautiful -
during the entire summer. Without ex-
PLANTATION, the man from the East Jumps at
conclusions. Snow. with him, means cold.
Here it is found, north and east, and the
| country adjacent must in consequence par
| take of its frigidity. 1t means a long, cold
| winter, brief, hot summer he under
stands the whole situation, he needs no
further advice; he settles down in Southern
California, and buys small farm at $500 OF
ST. 900 an acre. In reality
HE BUYS ONLY CLIMATE.
However, they do not catch all that come
by the southern route. Some have heard
of the rich and fertile valleys, intersected
by broad and deep rivers, fed by streams of
crystalline waters flowing from every hill
side. He comes here and what does be
| find. Mt. Shasta towering into the
heavens a distance of nearly two miles
AT her base lies warm and fertile valley,
| and for mile and a half up her sides
| forests of pine, fir, cedar and oak, such as
he never saw in any other portion of
| the country. For half mile above the
| line of timber is an immense snow-bank
| that feeds a number of streams, and at its
base gushes forth large stream, which is
the source of the Sacramento river.
IF LOS ANGELES HAD Mt. SHASTA
To furnish water for her parched plains
and miniature Saharas, she would be every
| way as good as the northern portion of the
State, and could give the people they are
| now dealing with value received for
their money. The same individual, after
he has. Toasted his eyes on the source of
the Sacramento, the much-abused Mt.
Shasta, can turn his gaze to the lied-about
Sierras. He will find that they are lofty
range, so elevated that they gather all the
| moisture that arises from the Pacific and
goes eastward, packs il away in snow drifts,
and returns it through the mountain val
| leys and foothills in clear bubbling springs,
| in little rivulets that make the meadows
green, in babbling brooks and creeks, in
| rushing torrents, and when it reaches the
| valleys it spreads out into large deep rivers,
all of which are necessary to vegetable as
well as animal life. The mountains that
the Los Angeles man lies about are what
MAKES OUR COUNTRY PROSPEROUS.