The record-union., 1897-07-06
OF SACRAMENTO-SOME INFOR-
NATION FOR VISITORS.

To such of our visitors Of the Chris
tian Endeavor delegations as may
pause with US or come to visit Sacra-
mento later, or desire to make note and
record of this city, a few words Of in
formation will not be unwelcome con-
cerning the capital of California. We
will be pardoned by them if we express
the desire that such information as is
impaired to them shall be accurate,
since it is possible that they may re-
ceive erroneous impressions through
inisinformation or absence of any.
Sacramento is city of about
o., 900 population. 1t lies at the con-
duence of the Sacramento and Ameri-
can Rivers, the former the chief navi-
gable stream Of the State. 1t is dis
tant but twenty miles from the first
rise of the foothills Of the great Sierra
Range. 1t is situated almost upon the
dividing line that separates the stretch
of the great Sacramento Valley north
ward to the mountain chain beyond
which lies the State of Oregon, and the
vast reach of the San Joaquin Valley
extending southwark until interrupted
by the Tehachapi Range, beyond which
lie the counties popularity known as
Southern California. To the east,
northeast and southeast of the city are
the great mineral belts of California,
any Of which are within a few hours
travel.
The city has in proportion to its popu-
lation, as many schools, churches, con-
fraternities and moral building agen-
cies, as have the most favored of our
old Eastern towns of like size. In it's
earlier history it was the entrepot for
the mines, the working of which con-
stituted the chief industry of the State.
While that industry continues, and is
taking on greater activity, agriculture,
horticulture and viticulture have taken
first place. Sacramento lies but few
miles south of the largest vineyard in
the world and almost at the east mar
gin of the city is the second largest
vineyard known.
The trade of the city extends into the
two great valleys hundreds of miles,
and throughout the whole mountain
region and the States beyond. 1t en-
braces the capacity to supply all that
vast section, with everything that need
demands Hence there is conducted
here a very successful, safe and steady
jobbing business.
The city is a railway center. Three
north and east from the city relating US
to the transmontaine region, and the
far north, and thence to the east. Two
lines of rail lead directly to the bay of
San Francisco and the metropolis, and
one reaches down through the San Joa
quin Valley, over the Tehachapi Range
to Los Angeles, and thence strikes out
eastward over the southern route, with
it's terminus at New Orleans. These
main or trunk lines relate the city to
numerous other connecting lines into
valley and mountain sections to the
north and the south coast counties.
Sacramento is the most central rail-
road point in the State. 1t is in the
center of the best distribution of pop
ulation in the center Of the largest cul-
tivated area on the coast, and is prac-
tically the geographical heart of Calf
fornia It is the chief fruit shipping
point of the coast, and ships more de-
ciduous fruit, than all other points for
ward
The largest areas of cereal and fruit
growth lie near to this city. We grow
here all vegetable and fruit products
common to the east, and in addition
We cultivate and produce with perfect
success lines, lemons, oranges, al
monds, walnuts and semi-tropical nuts,
olives, dates. and many other useful
and desirable products unknown to the
lands lying east of the mountains As
the production of a soil unerringly in
dicates the climate beneath which it
bears, it will be obvious to our visitors
that this is a semi-tropical section The
summers, which are long and dry, are
those of much heat mitigated by
breezes from the ocean, which sweep in
through and over the coast ranges. But
as the heat of the great valleys is never
humid, thermometrieal registration
must never be read here literally The
absence of moisture in the atmosphere
makes a registration of 95 degrees
about the equivalent of so in San Fran
cisco, where the humidity is great. No
one loses a days work because of the
suns heat in Sacramento, and very
rarely indeed is the discomfort of
sultry night known.
Our official records give us 1attering
bills of health. and we point with par
dcnable pride to the strong and bloom
ing children of the valley, coming on to
fill our places. robust and overfiowing
with exuberant and bounding vigor.
The streets of our city are broad. gen
orally well shaded by luxurious
growth of walnut, magnolia, locust,
evergreen. orange and lemon trees. the
maple, poplar, fir. elm. cottonwood, cork
oak. and many other growths.
The city is prosperous, steady in all
its doings, afflicted neither with booms
nor panics, and is probably the least la
bic to business fluctuations of any COM