The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25
San Joaquin Valley Is Peculiarly
Conditioned as Great
Horticultural Region--All
Known Products of the &.
Soil Grow i'm ProfusiOn.
Written for THE CALL
BY MAJOR C. y. BERRY.

BY MAJOR G. y. BERRY.
flow rivers OF wine, milk and honey, and
in its shade basks forever the faithful
Mohammedan, enjoying to the utmost the.
sweets of this tree of paradise. T1lare
County has all these enjoyable things, and
In fact the range of larger tree than was
in Mohammeds heaven, with greater adj
vantage, which is beautiful, sprightly and
intelligent women an article left out
of his paradise. Visalia, the county seat,
illustrates the magnificent fruits of our
grand climate and productiveness OF our
soils in its beautiful. highly educated,
lovely women, and the sister towns run
the county seat a close race.
Porterville Who has not heard of this
beautiful district with her oranges and
lemons, while Los Angeles, Riverside and
San Diego have been persistently advertis-
ing themselves as the hub upon which the
orange groves of our State revolve. Porter
ville's air is just as balmy, sky just as
blue, roses just as fragrant, and there is no
poison ''chucked" in by the microbe ped
der from the East. Lemon Cove, where
the golden spheres of the Hesperides,
framed in their surroundings by the ever
green leaves of the fragrant lemon, rivals
in it's quality the world-famed Messina
product, its prolficness so great that the
bank account of the lemon-grower of Tulare
County bids fair to exceed the tabled riches
of Solomon's mines. Lindsay, with its
thousand of acres in citrus fruits, soon to
rival the already famous production of
Redlands, and the apples-"pretty red
81 to,r
have their equals been seen they are with
out spot or blemish, and this king of fruits
invites the Missourian or New Highlander
to the county to engage in its production.
Land is cheap-very cheap; can be had
for song. Markets are accessible for the
fruits, either fresh, dried or canned. Why
seek further for a fruit orchard? Tulare
County presents all the requirements.
Some traveller said in THE CALL a few days
ago that Visalia is the cleanest and pref
tiest city IN the San Joaquin Valley, and it
is this district where the prune trees have
records of yielding over ton OF fruit each.
One of the requirements presented in
this thesis IN regard to the happiness of
man as furnished by the Central San
Joaquin Valley is that in order to bring
him up to the desirable level of productive
capacity, to enable him to live as a man
ought to live. he must be fed we'll. The
human body is machine and its efficiency
for muscular or mental work depends
upon how much fuel and what kind is used
in order to keep it up to its highest grade of
excellence. If a mans labor is the labor
of his hands, his power to work depends
upon the nourishment of his body. II his
labor is of mental character he still must
nourish his body in order to hold that
equilibrium of forces that makes the per-
feet man of the nineteenth century. All
the conditions of food supply prevail in
Tulare County-the Central San joaquin
Valley-to aid in building up the muscu-
lar and mental development of civilized
man Of this century. Just what special in
gradients contained in different foods
serve as nourishment of the brain and
nerves am unable to say, but where all
the foods are produced. as they are in this
central part of the valley, individuals
under any conditions Of life who desire to
live without the strain of muscular power
or the racking effort of the mental one can
find that heavenly spot on this fair earth
in Tulare County.
Kern county is the extreme southern end
of this big valley. Her possibilities as a
fruit-producer are simply grand, and any
language used to illustrate what kind of
factor Kern will be in the fruit market in
the next fifty years will surely fall short of
telling what that portion Of our big valley
will produce. Already peaches weighing
sixteen to twenty ounces each are shown
as one of it's capabilities. It's prunes bid
fair to rival the product of Santa Clara
County in quality, while its raisins are not
to be questioned alongside of Fresno. But
Kern has more than fruit to recommend
her to the desirable settler. Gold in
her hills, asphaltum in her canyons,
petroleum in her wells, cattle upon
her plains, horses in the paddocks Of
the farm and sheep upon the extensive
ranges of her broad territory, all invite
the investigation of the home-seeker.
While conditions prevail in all the counties
of the San Joaquin Valley adapted to the
needs of man individual man will both
require and consume different quantities
of nutriment; big men generally require
more nutriment than smaller ones; hence
| men need on the average more than
women. By some unwritten law, the big
man drifts to or seeks localities where the
food supply is abundant-the big-brained
man is the same as the muscular one in
this regard; generally the brainy man is
big one. and any traveller will be im-
pressed with the size of the average male
citizen of Tulare County, and as the fair
sex love their opposites, it will be quite
easily recognized that our women OF Gen.
trail San Joaquin are sprlghtly, rather
petite, and always charming. All such
illustrations are in evidence of the produc-
tiveness of our soils. and they are strong
cards OF invitation to the inhabitants of
the blizzard-swept plains Of Kansas, the
cyclonic districts of Missouri and Iowa and
the blighting east-wind territory of the
New England States. Come, We, therefore,.
to the San Joaquin Valley and abide with
US, where the rose sheds its perfume all
the year and the soil yields a golden har.
vest in handful of days; where, $50 DAYS
in the year, the sun shines; where the
rivers are fed by the eternal SHOWS of the
high Sierras; where fruit-growing and
farming is not dependent upon uncertain
rainfall, but by complete irrigation sys-
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