Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-06-14

less risks, and smaller fixed capital and
less acreage, and guarantee speedier, more
certain and larger rewards than the tilling
of the soil for cereals, the opportunity to
obtain in it small tract, upon terms es-
pecially inviting to the man of limited
means and that repel, as is intended, the
speculator, is one of rare attractiveness.
The map which we publish to illustrate
the commercial relation of Capay valley
to the centers of trade and lines of traffic
and transportation, clearly defines the loca-
ton of that valley and the seat, at its
mouth, of the market town of Esperanza
Lots in this town are to be disposed of
according to a scheme in harmony with
the general plan for securing that
density of population in the valley which
its capabilities warrant, and which the
promoters of the Capay Land Company
confidently and reasonably anticipate.
The town itself, fortified in business prom
Use by the wonderful fertility of the sur
rounding country, located so centrally and
upon direct line of rail piercing the val
ley; within easy distance by rail from Sac
ramento and San Francisco, and situated
close to the heart of Yolo county's richest
and most prosperous sections, cannot fail
to speedily attain business importance, while
its realty values must greatly augment
The details concerning the town are
set forth in this issue of the RECORD
UNION with clearness, and it is therefore
not necessary in this place to refer to them
specifically. If we entertained any doubt
whatever concerning the entire correctness
and the verify of these claims, we should
not certainly lend the influence of this
journal to aid the invitation to inquire
into the merits of the scheme, and GER
tainly we would not contribute word in
favor of the promotion of paper enter
prise" with no other backing than specu-
lative one, and no better promise for OBJ
tanning the importance of market town
than has been made for so many of the
lot-disposing and so-called "boom
schemes, born of feverish and unnatural
excitement, and based upon anticipated
population impossible to be secured in suf-
ficient number to occupy tenth of the
plats laid out for it.
The centers of population are rapidly
determining in California where capital
and industry locate now and within the
next half decade, there will be the prosper
GUS towns and the permanent seats of trade
The REcoRD-UNIoN has for twenty years
maintained mistaken faith in the belief
that the great centers of population and
production in this State will be in Cen
trail California, and that these centers will
develop between the lines that bound
Tehama upon the north and Amador upon
the south. The development of the last
decade and the rapid settlement of the
present hour confirm that faith. Within
these generally indicated bounds the great
est density of population and the greatest
trade and production activity will be man.
lfested. The reasons are apparent to who
ever gives serious thought to the evidences
and makes himself familiar with the forces
that operate to develop and to populate.
The Sacramento valley-and no section
more so than the head of Yolo county,
close to which lies the picturesque section
treated and illustrated in this number
offers to homeseekers advantages of the
most reasonable and attractive character,
and gives them assurances of compensating
return for labor and investment of the
highest order.
The salubrity of its atmosphere; the GER
tainty of rainfall and its average sufficiency;
the warmth of its days rapidly developing
the growth of soil products, and the balmy
nights refreshing and lnvigorating the
body; its fertile and diversified lands; its
capabilities for vineyard products; its in
vitation to the culture of the orange, the
lemon, the olive, almond and Eg and all
deciduous fruits; its exceptional natural
advantages for fruit and raisin curing, as
well as for cereal production; its drainage
by the chief waterway of the State; its
contiguity to the chief harbor and the
metropolis of the coast, and the unsur-
passed advantages Of railway transporta-
ton to tide water and the entire trans
montana region of the Union, combine to
insure to it the greatest density of popula-
ton, and the highest state of developed
fertility to be known to our State. And
all this is said without detracting an iota
from the just claims of the many other de-
sirable sections of our favored State, and
with full knowledge of the rich promise of
other fertile but less extended and less
centrally located areas of land.
1t is fer reasons such as these that
schemes of the character of that treated in
this issue have such an important direct
relation to Central California, and to every
interest in the entire State. The subdi-
vision of Capay valley into five, ten and
twenty-acre tracts, which, under ordinary
culture for fruit and vine, will yield more
of profit with less of labor, than ten times
those areas III grain, and promote social
conditions not common, indeed rare, to
wheat-growing countries, has mean
ing therefore, for Central California.
of first Importance. 1t means for one thing
that here, in the waist Of the State, we are
to establish an empire of fruit culture
that to Others we are to commit the pro-
duction of breadstuffs, while our hot val
legs and the sunny slopes of our fertile
foothills are to become the cornucopias
from which are to pour fruit supplies for the
great marts Of the country; that out of
this industry are to spring social and in
dustrial conditions conducive IN tho b;ob or