The record-union., 1892-12-17

which he resides, one holder has body
Of 10000 acres, about 5000 acres of
which are among the most fertile lands
in the State of California. Now if we
would divide that ., 200 acres into twenty,
forty and sixty-acre tracts, as land is held
in Southern California, the town of Red
Bluff would not have had under consid-
GRAFTON the subject of disincorporation
and the RELOCATING of itself to the condi-
ton Of a country crossroads settlement.
But the disparity Of growth between
the two sections still continues. We will
cite an illustrative case. There have come
to this State within a short time five or
six Of the largest stock breeders in the
United States. Mr.. Reed of Kentucky
whose first bid for Saint Blaise was $780,
600, has removed his stock interests to
California, and after looking over the
State settled in the southern portion.
Mr.. Orthwait, with capital of half a
million dollars, has located at Sierra
Madre Villa, after an examination of
the State. Mr.. Mcdonald, who sent
to South America and paid $4,000
for Ormonde, to import him here as the
basis of a great stock farm enterprise,
has selected place in Southern Califor-
MIA.
There are other capitalists and stock
raisers who have followed the general
example Of those mentioned. Here, then,
within very brief period of time, the
southern part of the State has received an
! accession of capital in an important en-
| terprise aggregating two millions OF dol
lars. Conditions Of competition as re-
lates to transportation had nothing to do
with these locations, because, as already
! stated, the rates are exactly the same.
The Bulletins clotted nonsense that the
railroad company is interested in depopu-
lating the region it serves, destroying its
productiveness, impoverishing the pop
ulation, and otherwise reducing the coun-
try through which it runs to a solitude is
unworthy the intellectual effort of a
drooling idiot.
At the very foundation of the difference
j Of growth between the northern and
! southern portions of the State lies the
| difference between the original and physi-
| cal conditions of the two sections. The
| southern portion of the State was origi-
nally arid, and the evolution of a popula-
| ton occupying small divisions of land
grew out OF irrigating an originally worth
| less country. 1t was for this reason that
Fresno has manifested its phenomenal
growth. The Sacramento Valley and the
San Joaquin Valley are naturally fer
| tile; but the lands are held in vast ag-
gregations of holdings in the hands of
| single individuals; the owners are salts
fed with their property; they have found
it profitable to cultivate under existing
conditions.
The capital necessary to develop irriga-
ton schemes requires that the land sus-
ceptible of irrigation shall be divided into
small holdings, so that 1t may bring a
very high price. Irrigation, therefore,
has an inherent tendency to greater
| density of population, to smaller subdi-
visions of land, to more diligent cultiva-
ton, and to more intensified field culture.
Where sufficient rain fails to mature crops
of cereals and fruits, the tendency in this
State has been towards increasing the ag-
gregations of land. Transportation has
had nothing to do with the question of the
growth of the two sections, and we re-
peat, because it cannot be repeated toe
often, the rate has been uniformly the same
to Northern California as to Southern
California;, whether it was high OF
whether it was low, and this single fact
refutes all the uniformed opinion and
malicious misrepresentation that has been
INDUCED in on this subject.