Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-25

NelD EHgtued journal q EQdcdtlOTl, VINO was
in Sacramento short time ago, writes to
the RECORD UNION as follows:
On THE OVERLAND FLYER,
November IL, 1889.
EDS. RECORD UNION: A terrific blizzard
on the plains of Wyoming and Nebraska is
a chilly christening for an Eastern journey,
but it makes more delightful the memories
of sunny cline, whose tonic atmosphere,
luxurious November bloom and balmy eli
mate illumine as dreary a day as ever
whistled its winds and blew its SHOWS
around Pullman train, and | cannot resist
the temptation to salute those of your
readers who have made my six weeks
study OF the State of limitless resources,
from the Arizona to the Oregon line, from
the silvered peaks 10 the Golden Gate, en-
joyable.
With pen in hand 1 have made the
grand rounds" and though my pen has
voiced its appreciation of the scenic the
tonic and the luxurious in a score of
letters to the Eastern press l cannot deny
myself the privilege of Frightening a
cherries day by touching with random
hues and tints my impression OF the State.
Between late September and early No
vember l have enjoyed the stimulating city
life of San Francisco, with its brisk business
activity, rollicking club life and fascinating
park drives; the serenity of Oakland over
the Bay, with the business energy of the
metropolis attuned to quiet SAUNDERS the
alluring vineyards and wineries of Napa
valley, whose personality has given ma
tional fame to its delicious reveries; the
clasically christened Menlo Park. beneath
whose everything oaks are to be forever
hallowed the memories of Leland Stan
ford, Jr., in the quickened intellectual life
of thousands of youths in the generations
to come; the matchless beauties of Chico
Vecino, where General John Bidwell,
famed in California annals for forty eight
years, entertains with royal grace upon his
% 000-acre ranch, whose cultivation of fruit
and flowers, field and forest, defy the art of
pen or pencil; the upper Sacramento,
whose eighteen times-crossed stream, with
its blended ripple and roar, curve and
angle, bubbling spring and trickling cas-
cade challenge comparison with any other
river east or west; and Shasta, regal in its
rugged exaltation queenly in its exquisitely-
draped folds of freshly fallen snow.
Nor are these all the allurements of
these charming weeks Marysville, Yuba
City and Colmena, with their thrifty
orchards of peach and pear, cherry and
plum, apple and orange; with exquisite
sunsets over the Sierras, gliding the buttes
tingiDg the coast range and kissing the
snowy brow of Shasta some two hundred
miles away; Colusa county with its prairie
expanse of exhaustiess wheat fields, fer
lilly bathed by winter shower and lux
uriously caressed by summer sun Placer
county, skipping with exquisite art from
the summit to the sea-level valley, touch
ing every hill and vale, every nook and
corner with an individually of soil-capa
bility and climate-tonic that irradiates it
with every variety of fruit from the tropics
to the northern limit, and recuperates
every form of wasted energy-these all
blend their claims with rhythmic effect
Nor are these all. Southern California,
around me her mammoth squashes beets,
sweet potatoes, melons and onions, at the
Downey fair; has enticed me among the
callas, cacti and architectural beauty at
Los Angeles; has chained me with the
orange groves, mountain scenery and
balmy breezes of Pasadena; has fascinated
me with the seaview, mountain delights
and 100000 pounds annual pear crop of
Ventura by-the-Sea.
Nor have these weeks been solely days
of enjoyment. They have been in
structive as well. / came to learn as much
as to enjoy. 1t has been my third visit to
the coast The East has, after many years
of doubling ridicule, accepted the marvel.
GUS tales of Big Trees" deep valleys and
equable climate, but has concentrated her
doubt upon the quality and profit of your
fruits and grains She has coaxed herself
into the belief that like the gold mining,
which washed the soil into the streams and
upon the low lands, and was soon ex-
hsusted. so, in some mysterious way. your
soil, sun or market will at no distant day
fail you
Rugged New England, that has fought
her way for two and q half centuries by
defyiDg the rigors of climate and the steril-
ity of soil, will not accept the fact that
across the continent is a State out of which
a score of States like Massachusetts could
be carved with a climate that would make
Italy flush, with soil that laughs at Louisi-
ana, with citizens whose character and per-
sonality would grace any State in the
Union.
For six months l have lived among your
people in almost every section of the State;
| have tasted and tested their hospitality;
l have sat in palace and cottage; have
basked in the sunshine and splsshed
through the mud have laughed in the
vineyards and shiveredin Chinatown; have
seen the beans thrsshed by the ton, and
the most luscious muscatellis dumped in
the dirt, and my confidence in California
has been heightened through it all.
| am satisfied that your crops will be
richer from better cultivation that your
hsrvests will be more reliable from i'm
proved machinery, storage and transporta-
ton; that your markets Will be more
profitable from the refrigerator transport
ton.
1 know that your rural schools are the
best in America, and that The personality
of your people is of character which de-
velops manhood and womanhood, in
dusIry, commerce, professional zeal and
patriotic ardor.
The day cannot be far distant when the
capitalists of the East shall seek your SOIL
when the retired business men and women
of leisure shall seek your climate; when
the East and the West the North and
the South shall blend all their interests
and concentrate their forces to make the
most possible of every section of our land
then will California indeed blossom as a
rose, and millions of people enrich and be
blessed by your State. Happy the man
who can hasten that day.
A. Z. WINsHIP.
VISITING INSTITUTES.