The San Francisco call., 1897-03-08

same to Mary l.. Schlam 81 900 on property
on the south line of O'Farrell street. IT'S feet
east OF Lsguna, east 20 by south 100; from
William {. Spencer. trustee, to Joseph Il. and
Alice L. Eastland, $4,000 on property on the
south corner OF Market ana East streets.
southeast 13! :6 by southwest AS 10; from the
German Bank to George Schafer, $4,000 on
property on the west line of Folsom street. 80
ieet south OF Erie, south 46. southwest 127 10,
northwest 40:SM, northeast 1876 :53s from the
National Home and Loan Association TO L. A.
and Rose Levy, 100000 on property on the
northeast corner of Myrtle and Van Ness ave-
nue., north II :3 by east 100, and on the south
line of Geary street, 100 feet east OF Van Ness
avenue, east 40 IS bv south 100; from the same
TO Paul Friedman, $4,000 on property on the
northeast corner oil Union and Octavla streets,
east lO9:6 by north no; from Andrew d NC
property on the southwest line OF Ninth
street, 100 feet northwest OF Folsom
street, northwest 10 by southwest 100;
from the Hibernia Bank 10 John and Eliza
north line of Fell rect, 1876 east OF webster,
east 80 by north 120; from the Mutual BANK
TO George ID. and Robert V. Lucy, $oOOO on
property on the southeast line OF Market
street, rs feet southwest of Brady, southwest
% by southeast 124 from the German Bank
to Theodore Liebermann, $1,000 on property
on the south line of Washington street. 101 Il
east of Stock ton, south 60:6 by east 20 IS; from
the French Bank 10 Peter II. and Sarah K.
Campbell, $4,000 on property on the north line
OF Pacific street, 148:1 west OF Baker, west 100
the north line of Jackson street, 1l5 feet cas- t
of Leavenworth, east 22:6 by north 1915.
PROSPEROUS AND PROGRESSIVE WINTERS.
Reference has been made in these columns
frequently of late to the encouraging fact that
the settler in California has no difficulty now
n securing choice land in small tracts. 1t is
only few years since one OF the chief OBJ
stacles 10 immigration 10 this State was the
difficulty of procuring snail farms of desirable
land in good localities. ALI is changed now.
Snr nf ha In hpp ad
up and colonized; others are now being sold
Notable among the large holdings which
have been placed on the market in small
tracts during the past year or two is the
Wolfskill grant near the town of Winters.
During the past three years, or since the prop
erty was put on the market, 5OS5 acres of the
grant hsve been sold, amounting in all to
$515, 800.
The McMahan subdivision of the Wolfskill
grant, which comprises some OF the finest
lost thickly settled of all the grants, with Il
lot of thrifty and ind ustrious farmers, many
of whom have added greatly to their posses
sions with costly Improvements.
The sale OF this proTerty has probably
proven the most successful of any large hold
ing that has been subdivided and placed on
the market during the past year or two.
The great d drawback TO some sections of the
State has been the nabi.ity to obtain good
land al anything like reasonable price.
The Sacramento Valley, IN the territory sur.
rounding Winters, bursts upon the vision OF
the weary traveller after crossing the ARID
plains of Southern California, as land of
wonder and beauty, and the problem presents
itself, why is nature so partial in the distribu-
ton of her gifts? Not many towns in this or
any other State can truthfully claim the
natural advantages that Winters and its en-
Virons can. More so, perhaps, than many other
places in the Sacramento Valley, Winters en-
joys a climate as serene as dream OF luxury;
serene in that 1t IS robbed of all severity
balmy, bright and tranquil as q summers sea.
The domain OF winter is met on the noun
tain slopes, where its advan ce is stayed by the
greetings of perpetual summer. Above the
hoary garments of the frost king shroud the
monarchs and carpet, with its icy breath, peak
and plateau, cove and canyon. But beneath
lies The pretty town of Winters in the smiling
valley of tho Sacramento, carpeted with en-
erald and bespangled with flowers. Here
wherever the eye is directed a new charm ap-
pears, a new delight is present, and the soft
air, laden with fragrant odors, with mere
suggestion of the sea, is rs balm 10 the lungs.
1nere is no more beautiful landscape in all
the country than this garden spot where the
eye reaches out over thousands OF broad acres
OF luxuriant orchards and vineyards, and the
orange with it's load of golden fruit, the olive
with its silvery sheen, the magnolia with It's
waxen leaves, the cypress with its burden of
verdure, the stately PAIN, the occasional sturdy
oak, the intervals OF waving grain, each a de-
light in itself, and all adding their shades of
color under a coudless sky, save perchance
few white feeces ste aling away to hide in soma
nook In the mountains that rise maj jes ically
in their garb of many shades of green. con-
tributing greater charms and magnificent
relief to the Landscape.
While the general contour presented by the
valley is that of level plain, ii is in TACT
series OF gentle undulatlons, with marked
variations in the quality of the soil.
OF the varied pr reductions of the portion OF
the valley in question it is difficult to speak in
terms which shall not SAVIOR OF exaggeration.
The ques ton is no longer what can, but what
cannot be successfully grown here.
consist in the uniformity of temperature and
humidity and the distribution OF rain. The
temperature varies but little, winter or sum-
mer. In no winter is the aver, &c temperature
below 40 degrees, nor does 1t rise in summer
above 90. The effect OF the first rains is magi-
CAL
The dust is washed from the foliage and is
laid in the roads and fields. The air has a
fresh sparkle and lie. The skies are a deeper
azure, and the soft, green hills seem nearer
and fairer than before. 1t is the Indian sum-
mer of the East, but instead of the soft lassi-
tude of the dying year 1t comes with all the
freshness and vigor of the newborn spring.
1t is @ tnis season that the grass springs up
on every hand, and the se!f-sown grain in all
the fields. The hills change to a brighter
green. Wild flowers appear in every sheltered
nook. Hyacinths and crocuses bloom in the
gardens, and the perfume OF the violet is
everywhere in the air.
1t is not difficult to estimate the value OF
fertilizing rains and the wonderful forces of
nature that gently distill the " ater from the
IL
yapors and distribute 1t SO gently that d OF
even the most delicate petal is disarranged.
All the little plants hold up their tiny mouths
and receive sheir fill. The great oaks, mon-
archs OF the hills for thousand years, are all
supplied. A thousand springs and streams
are set to running and become the source of
life and beauty.
Not all the earth is so blessed as this section
of California is. There are vast acres where
no rain falls, or in such scanty measure and
at such long intervals as to be practically use
less. Once in years OF time a few clouds wan
dering over a strange land drop a gentle
shower. as If weeling over the desola-
iion or as if incensed with the circumstances
that nterfere with the gentle rains, assemble
in such flood that all the labor of years is
swept away.
In latter years it has become quite fashion
able to descant about the advantages of aidry
country with irrgating canals. Too many,
however, undertaking the advantages of
timely rains, make their home in q cactus
desert.
Summarizing, 1t may be said that in any
part of the year days too hot or too cold for
the comfort of those engaged in ordinary vo-
cations are unknown in the Winters district.
The fears and torebod1ngs with which the sea.
sons are elsewhere greeted are here unheard
Of Coming with no rigor, they bring no ter
rors, and are alike welcomed by all, not as
relief, but as change.
In these conditions health and personal CON-
fort are largely subserved, and also in them
the horticultural possibilities, of which We are
to-day upon the threshold, are assured; and
these, Ine elements of present and of pros
pective prosperity, are constent as the
ocean currents in which they have their
origin and as permanent as the mountain
ranges which bound the field OF their exhibit
ton.
The estimation of the people of Winters re-
garding the climate OF their section of the
State has been the theme of much face tious
comment. In view of the fact that elsewhere
those who are able to spend half the year on
the st. Lawrence, or on the coas I of Maine, to
ESCAPE the heat OF summer. and the other half