Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-24
CHICAGO EXCURSIONS.
They Leave the City by the Lake Every
Two Weeks for Sacramento.

CHICAGO EXCURSIONS.
They Leave the City by tho Lake Every
Two Weeks for Sacramento.
George E. Brand, of Brand & Campbell,
managers of the Orange Vale Colonization
Company, returned Tuesday from an ex-
tended trip through the Eastern States in
the interests of his colony. While his ex-
penses were borne by his own company,
still he represented what no other agent
has, the valley of the Sacramento. He per-
fected arrangements with railroad people
throughout the East and West, whereby
the individual who is seeking to invest.
who wishes to purchase home, can buy
an excursion ticket to the capital OF the
State.
In conversation with reporter yesterday
Mr.. Brand said: Yes, had g good time !;
was gone three months and half, travelled
through New England and the Northwest,
riding in railroad cars over 10000 miles.
The facilities for travel throughout the
Union are so complete now, that space
seems almost eliminated between points
even several hundred miles apart.
In the New England States there is a
general desire on the part of almost every
one you meet to come to California. Even
the wealthy people who date their ancestry
back to the landing of the Pilgrim fathers
at Plymouth Rock, have heard so much of
our balmy summers, our mild and sunny
winters, that they are willing to exchange
their homes from where old Sol is pried up
with a crow-bar, to the country where he is
seen to sink out of sight in the bosom Of
the old Pacific.
"They are not talking Southern Califor.
MIA. No, sir; for many of the Bostonians
lost on climatic speculations at Los Angeles
and San Diego. 1t was all right as long
as the boom lasted, but when the inflated
bubble was pricked and their values went
down hundred per cent, they found as
much fault as anyone. In every family
there seemed to be some one who had lost
on the Southern California craze.
" found it difficult to make them under
stand the difference between Central Cali
fornia and Southern California. 1t is a
remarkable fact that you hardly met any
one who knew anything of the great and
boundless valley of the Sacramento and
its contributing foothills
How was l received? Well, l had no
difficulty at all in establishing myself and
could get an interesting audience wherever
/ went. The people are anxious for news.
When 1 showed them that nine-tenths of
the fruit shipped from this State came from
a radius of 100 miles of the Capitol of the
State they could hardly believe it, but
was armed with authenticated figures of
the railroad company to prove it. When
told them of our large rivers, our numer-
Gus mountain streams of our extensive
forests, our vineyards, unparalleled in
size in the world, our orchards, which are
unequaled anywhere, our fine cities, our
educational facilities etc., they were aston
ished. They already knew from statistics
that Sacramento was one of the leading
commercial cities of the West. What they
want is to engage in practical, successful
farming.
travelled through New Hampshire
Massachusetts,, Vermont and Maine,
through portion of Maryland, New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana. Michigan
and Illinois, and spent few days each in
of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan more
easily influenced than those of other sec
tons, and they were also better posted re-
garding this State. From what / could
hear, judge that there will be large i'm
migration from those States during the
coming spring and summer months. 1t
will not be of an undesirable class, but a
people who come here with means to pur-
chase and till the soil, and they are coming
directly to Sacramento. The Washington
Territory and Oregon booms and the ex-
ploded booms of Southern California are
all thoroughly known, and the western
people are not going to any of those places.
How was the weather? Well it was
remarkably fine nearly all the time was
back there. So far, they have had mild
and open winter and are more reconciled
to the rigor of their climate than usual,
and on account. of that we shall lose many
winter tourists that we otherwise should
have had.
Yes met many railroad officials and
excursion agents. In fact, my business
was largely with them. From what / can
learn, at least two-thirds of the excursion
lists of the coming year will be booked to
Central California, and we must follow up
the advantage thus gained by judicious
distribution of truthful advertising matter.
50 / have secured rebates on all through
tickets to Sacramento, which will insure a
largely increased travel to this section, and
already they are arriving here daily. Sew
eral called at our Office to-day who had re-
ceived their rebate, and were influenced to
come here Though the information fur
nished through the branch offices which l
had created.
Twill our boom be big one? Well,
now, don't say boom. A boom is bad
thing for any section. 1t is where prices
become suddenly inflated. No, sir; we
will sell improved land at prices which
| they can be worked at profit, and sec
| ton of country that does this will always
| prosper. We have 1890 acres. The
Natoma Company is cutting up 5000, and
| J. B. Haggin will offer % 600, which is
now being surveyed. l say it, and you
| can put it down as prophecy if you wish,
| that inside of three years Sacramento city
! will contain 5000 population, and will be
the leading commercial city of this western
country, barring San Francisco. | hear
! the hammer and the saw in every Girec.
ton, and SO far as the contributing country
is concerned, no city in the world has more
| to back it than Sacramento. Our pros.
| perity will not be ephemeral. II is no
mushroom business. We improve the
land and sell to those Eastern people i'm
proved farms at prices that they can bt
worked at profit.
| "In Kansas and Nebraska and portions
of Missouri nearly the entire population is
! disguised with their climate, and are ekinf
out hand to-mouth existence.
| Excursion trains for Sacramento viii
leave Chicago every two weeks for this
city, the passengers coming direct to Sac
amento without change of cars"
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