Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-05
FRAUDULENT ILLUSTRATIONS.

FRAUDULENT ILLUSTRATIONS.
The peripatetic publisher, who rambles
over the State getting out special editions
of counties, or parts of counties, and even
down to neighborhoods, not only does not
deserve the patronage of the community,
but deserves exposure and the condemna-
ton which such exposure would bring. In
large number of cases. if not in most in
stances, the cuts used have done duty for
every part of the State. We have before
us a picture originating in this county, en-
titled, "a Five-year-oId Farm in Sacra-
mento County, Cal" In the immediate
foreground there is stubble field, hay
rake lying around loose, a dog, some chick
ems, and group of small children stand
ing by shock of wheat, which has been
cut and bound after the fashion of twenty
five years ago. To the left of the middle
ground there are wagon, with two horses
and colt running around loose, and two
men who are on top of the wagon receiv-
ing sheaves of wheat, while third man
on the ground is pitching from the shock
Back Of this, in the left background, there
is a ciump of trees, the foliage of which
resembles maple or beech. In the right
middle ground is fvestory barn, as the
windows in the gable end indicate. In
the right background is a handsome, some
what rambling farmhouse, situated amid
sheltering trees. In the middle back
ground hill rises, and interposed between
the observer and the hill is a church,
whose spire is suggestive of English rather
than American landscape Such is the
picture. 1t has been resurrected to do duty
in recent publications, and its last appear
ance is under the title "a Home in South
ern California" 1t is predicted that its
next appearance will be as "a Ranch in
Siskiyou County"
A recent instance, illustrating the man
ner IN which these cuts are used to de-
fraud the public, relates to some excellent
cuts from photographs in Capay valley, in
the western part of Yolo county. These
cuts were engraved from photographs in
New York at the expense Of the Capay
Valley Land Company, corporation en-
deavoring to establish some large commu-
mites upon small holdings, in that most
fertile valley of California. A San Fran
cisco publication, the publisher of which
travels over the State inducing the local
residents to contribute to the cost and
profit Of special editions, visited Washoe
county, Nevada, and used these Capay val
ley cuts, with the grand California oaks,
the picturesque scenery of Capay valley,
and all the accessories of beauty and fer
tiiity, to illustrate a county in Nevada
Now, while we are perfectly willing that
Nevada shall have due credit for its min
eval, agricultural and grazing wealth, we
are not willing that pictures fairly illus
bratiye of the fertile valleys of California
shall be made to play the part of counter
felt representations of countries where the
fraud must sooner or later be exposed.
Representations of this kind create dis
trust in the public mind of all illustra-
tons. The fve-year-old farm in Sacra-
mento county," first alluded to, we are
somewhat disposed to believe has no origi-
mai in this county its exotic character is
betrayed by post and rail fence yet we
EXPECT to see this picture of Anticipated
harvest methods, the tall spire of its rural
church, four or ive-storied barn, and its
post and rail fence do duty as a typical
California scene, in the publication of
every itinerant journalist who is able to
90 into rural neighborhood and adver-
tise the locality to the world in his "iIlus-
traied paper.p