The record-union., 1891-01-29

Now, what are some of the corroborative
facts.
a table compiled by Sergeant Barwick,
United States Signal Officer at Sacra-
mento, showed that the first fruit tree
blossoms appeared from January, 1870,
to January, 1888, twice in January, six
teen times in February and once in
March.
Peaches ripen in May, apricots in June.
carload of cherries shipped from Va
caville to Chicago May 10, 1890.
Oranges shipped for many years from
MarySville, Oroville, Newcastle and
other points.
Vegetable growers carry vegetables to
market all winter long, gathered fresh
from open gardens.
Roses. violets, heliotropes, geraniums,
chrysanthemums, blooming in December
in the open grounds.
There is not public park in America
where more gorgeous floral displays can
be seen in midsummer than can be found
in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, or
the Capitol grounds at Sacramento in
November or March.
Could anything more strikingly illus
trate the wide contrast between Northern
California and the regions whence came
our immigration? Thirty-fiye degrees
below zero and twenty-nine above is
prodigious difference for the January
minimum temperature.
While our fruits were growing and
ripening for our May and June markets,
they were having weather below zero oil
over the Union, east of the Sierras and
north of line drawn through San Fran
cisco and Omaha or New York CITY.
/ present our climate in this way, Mr..
President, because degrees of temperature
do not always convey a correct impress
sion of heat or cold, but all men can
understand the difference between the
weather where trees are in bloom and
Leakage and fruitage, and weather 25o be-
low z ,:r no vegetable or plant or
tree life can exist except in dormant
state, and where trees often freeze to
death.
Let me press this matter of climate a
little further.
In May, when we were sending our
first carload of ripe cherries into Chicago,
the thermometer touched 27o at st. PAUL,
which was q colder than at any time last
winter at Sacramento and in September
it ran down to 3l0, or 10 below freezing;
and at Bismarck 60 below freezing. and
when we were fairly finished with our
late peaches, our raisins, our prunes and
pears, winter was fairly set in all over
the great n orthwest. and the thermometer
playing with zero.
A word now to the doubling Thomases
who insist that we must have irrigation.
as is generally true South. The finest or
chard in the world is near Suisun, Solano
county. Over, the ridge north in the
same county is Vacaville with 5000 acres
in all kinds of trees; all around Sacra-
mento and near Davisville are thousands
of acres in trees; as far south as Lodi, in
the San Joaquin, and in the Livermore
Valley, are splendid orchards; north we
pass large plantations on the Feather
River, around Marysyille, Biggs and
other points; across the river, the same
around Colusa;i at Chico, General Bid
well has about 2,000 acres in trees; in Te-
hama and Shasta Counties are large plant
ings. Here is region of immense area
and producing large per cent. of the
fruit shipped out of the State, and none
of the orchards to which / refer have any
water, except the seasonal rainfall
Santa Clara Valley has made her great
reputation with prunes without irriga-
ton.
All kinds of soils are embraced in this
demonstration, and to-day it is the opin-
ion OF our best fruit-growers Of the Sac