Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-09-17
| grapes tof all varieties). peaches, pears,

apples, etc.
In the center rises pyramid of shelves
bearing jars of beautiful and luscious pre-
served fruits of various kinds. Some of
the pears and apples there shown are of
wonderful growth, and would astonish an
Eastern fruit-grower. These shelves also
bear q large and attractive collection of
dried fruits of various kinds-raisins, nee
tarines, peaches, apples, etc. The Colusa
raisins are as fine as any on exhibition,
showing that Colusa possesses possibilities
in that line that may bring her into the
front rank of raisin- producing counties.
There are also shown samples of white
and red wines, honey, flour, canned goods,
walnuts, almonds, peanuts, jellies, pickles,
silk cocoons, etc.
Visitors have been particularly interested
in the thrifty looking cotton plants shown,
bearing large and completely filed bolls.
Persons familiar with on-growing state
that it would be difficult to find finer look
ing cotton on any of the plantations of the
Southern States
Colusa is also rich in the variety and
quality of her native and cultivated woods.
There is shown in the exhibit large block
of black walnut, also specimens OF yellow
and sugar pine, FIR, mahogany, ash, black
oak, white oak, live oak, dogwood, spruce
pine, dagger pine elder, choke cherry,
chemise, alder, white willow, pepper-wood,
maple, and many other varieties.
The mineral resources of the county are
represented by gold and silver. bearidg ores,
cinnabar, sandstone, flint, etc.
Another department of the exhibit is de-
voted to samples of the various mineral
and medicinal waters found within the
limits OF this county of varied resources.
In the foothill portion of the county these
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Wilbur Hot Sulphur Springs have been
known for upwards of thirty years, and
Cooks and Fouts' Springs are also widely
known as health resorts. Samples of the
waters from these various springs are on
exhibition, and give positive proof of their
qualities to all who are familiar with min
eral waters. The day will come when
these springs will have national reputa-
ton, and Colusa will become one of the
most noted health resorts on the Pacific
coast.
In the southwest portions of the county
there are many surface indications of oil,
and some years ago, during an oil excite
ment, some borings were made. Nothing
came OF 1t. In several places there is
natural gas escaping from the ground. 1t
is still escaping from one well bored over
twenty years ago, and campers often cook
their meals at it. There is another place
near Sulphur Springs where it has been es-
Gaping from the ground in large quanti-
ties since the settlement of the country.
This is resource that awaits development.
Colusa is the greatest wheat producing
county of the State, if rot of the world.
Her wheat yield this year is estimated at
no less than 100000 bushels Hereto
fore the county has been known as one of
great land-holdings, or wheat ranches, but
OF late years there has been a tendency to
divide up these great ranches into smaller
farms and orchards, and few years hence
Will show still greater chsnges in this re-
spect. The result is already seen in the
wide variety of exhibits made by that
county at the present fair.
Although the soil of Colusa is generally
fertile, still her people have awakened TO
the TACT that greater results can be obtained
under good system of irrigation, and
there are several enterprises of this char
acter now on foot. There are broad plains
in Colusa that can be transformed into a
paradise when water is turned upon them,
ana that condition of things will be
reached in the near future
The last Legislature framed law au-
thoflzing the formation Of irrigation dis
trlcts by which the people could tax the
land and the improvements and build
their own irrigation canals and bitches.
and own the water. Some $780, acres of
land IN Colusa county will, in short
time, be brought under irrigation, under
the provisions of this law. The water for
this will be taken from the Sacramento
river and from Stony creek Central Irri-
CATION District containing some $50, 600
acres of land in the middle of Colusa
county, has been organized and has issued
It's bonds for 1000, and work has been
commenced. This will be pushed to q
finish in the next twelve or eighteen
months. A district has been formed on
either side of Stony creek, embracing some
10000 acres of land, and preparations are
being made TO begin active operations.
Another district, containing some 120, 900
acres, has just been organized. When this
system has been fully inaugurated, eighty
acres will be large farm. A million and
half of money will be expended in the
next eighteen months for irrigation works
in Colusa county, and the great wheat
helds will give place to orchards, vine
yards and meadows.
Colnsa has some of the best schools in
the State, and in all things that 90 to make
up the conditions conducive to prosperous
and happy homes, she is peculiarly
favored.
Visitors to the fair should not fail to call
and examine the grand exhibit made by
this cnuptv n tho