Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-04-29
THE INTERIOR EXCURSIONS.

The recent excursion by business men of
Woodland to Fresno and Stockton was the
first of the series proposed by the State
Board of Trade upon the suggestion of
Vice-President Mills 1t proved the wis.,
dom of the idea, and the judgment of the
Woodland excursionists justifes it. For
instance, one of these intelligent gentle
men said on his return, to the Woodland
Mol:
Our excursion to Fresno and Stockton
strongly evinced the fact that excursions are
profitable and instructive. We have learned
that when land is subdivided into twenty acre
lots the soil is better cultivated and the country
more thlckly populated and prosperous. We
have discovered that substantial brick buildings
bituminous pavement and good system ofsew.
erage adds to the stability and general appear
ance OF a town. We have learned also that the
extensive manufacturing interests of Stockton
are worthy of our especial attention and follow
ing, and that as we are located on the same for
nation OF strata as Stockton or Salinas, we GER
talnly nave an equal opportunity OF discoye
natural gas wells.
Still others of the excursionists of
course, saw other things in their brief visit
that were of equal value and suggestive
ness. But one great benefit of the outing
was the acquaintance that was brought
about between the people and knowledge
that the excursionists gained of sections of
the State that they knew but indiferently
before the visit. SGill another primary
and great benefit was this, that the ex-
curslonists returned with the conviction
that the same energy and enterprise and
local faith they saw abroad, applied in
Woodland, would have given even better
results there than at the points where they
witnessed the harvels of cultivation, town
improvements and the discharge of the
debt that every man owes to the COM
munlty In which he lives The excur-
sionists must have seen that with superior
climate, soil and geographical position,
their town could long since have attained
the same degree of prosperity that has been
reached in Fresno, and great deal more.
In short, as the gentleman who suggested
these excursions pointedly said to the
business men of Woodland Just before their
departure:
There is no disability at Woodland absent at
FRESNO. Hence your people will see that they
can not only prevent their own citizens from
going TO Fresno, but they can draw people
nom Fresno If they choose. 1t has been ac-
knoWledged by your local press that Woodland
mas lost population and money to Fresno al
ready. 1t will continue to lose and the loss
VIII be recruited from the more enterprisinp of
your people. just as long as 1t lags behind other
localities. Woodland will begin making drafts
on other localities just so soon as her energy
ana progress are abreast of other sections Of
the state You have unexceptionally the best
climate in California, soil as rich as any other
part, climate as salubrious, permitting of a
great diversity of horticultural products When
your editors can say of truth that you have
tons elsewhere they are admitting clearly
that you have not improved the advantages
that lie about you, and it is time they learned
by some object lesson the possibilities of Wood
possibilities ID some other locality.
Such object lessons are greatly needed
by about one-half the population of Sacra-
mento and that right speedily. The
sooner we can induce our people to look
IN upon towns that have proved the value
and benefit of local energy and implicit
faith in their town and vicinity made
manifest by works, the better for the city
and locality. We await with anxiety the
announcement that such temporary ex-
odus from our city is contemplated. We
shall expect our excursionists to return
fired with new spirit and energized to do
as well as to talk.