The record-union., 1897-07-06

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sea and rail.....-.. reporteu 7''"
Cards fruit, vegetables, wine oo or
and brandy by rail and sea-. 10, 1901 Z2,oI.
chard, and in all lines of manufactures
the weather is always propitious. You
may not believe it, but l can take you
to a property 100 miles north of Sacra-
mento. where you will find growing
in the open, in one large orchard
of 5000 acres-apples, pears, cherries
prunes, plums, figs, oranges, lemons,
almonds, raisins, apricots, olives, qua
vas, loquats, persimmOns-in short,
every fruit to be found growing in
Russia, France, Egypt, Greece, Spain,
and in the entire Mediterranean BASIN
1 doubt if a like expression of climat-
ic possibilities can be found elsewhere
on the globe. One other fact, and we
may leave the matter of climate. Cal
ifornia is a universal sanitarium. In
the mountains and in the valleys every
where, barring of course here and there
local influences to the contrary, the eli
matte conditions promote improved
health to all who come. Special con-
ditions, more favorable, appear in diff
ferent places, but generally all latitudes
and all regions invigorate and build
valleys lie parallel to our mountain
ranges and the ocean, and residents
find quick and easy change from one
to the other; the people of the interior
go to the coast or the mountains for a
change, and the coast people go to the
interior and mountains. A few hours
bring this most delightful change.
Q.-You talk a great deal about the
wonderful diversity of your products
and resources; give US some idea of
this. Some of us live where it is only
possible to raise corn, and wheat, and
oats.
Al hardly know how to convey an
adequate conception of this feature of
California life. 1 can only suggest it.
Your intelligence and your own obser-
vation, if you will use your eyes and
ears while here, will complete the pic
ture. Our mountains and a large part
Of the north coast line are covered with
commercial timber of high value and
almost inexhaustible in quantity. We
have sugar pine (similar to your white
pine), yellow pine. almost the same
spruce, fir, and cedar in the Sierra and
in parts of the high Coast Range. Along
the coast, north of Santa Cruz, are
the famous redwood forests. l have
seen an estimate of the redwoods in
Humboldt County alone, showing that
her forests will yield two hundred mil
lion feet per annum for 80 years The
East must soon come to us for lum-
ber. We now have large trade in the
South and Central American States and
in the Australian Colonies. In these
mountains of the Sierra and Coast
Range are many delightful valleys
suitable for general farming and dali
rying, and outside the valleys our cat
tie and sheep find summer pasturage
These mountain ranges nearly through
out their length are charged with min
eral veins, and deposits and pIacers
If it were possible to exhibit yerti-
cal section of the Sierra 5000 feet deep
along the track of these lodes and beds
of minerals, the most gorgeous picture
would be presented ever exposed to hui
man gaze. That portion of our popu-
lation engaged in mining and admins
tering to the immediate wants of the
miners furnishes a market for the pro-
ducts of the valleys, and year by year
the mining industry is growing and be-
coming more important. The annual
output of gold alone is about ST., 5000
600
Distributed among our foothills and
in the mountains are valuable quarrias
of marble, granite, onyx, and other
building and ornamental stones Ly-
ing close neighbors to these inexhaus-
tible riches, deposited when Nature was
in her complaisant mood are to be
found here and there valuable beds of
potter's clay now being worked into all
sorts of useful and ornamental forms
and in few places are found sands of
great value for the manufacture of
glass.
In both the Coast Range and in the
Sierra, at convenient distances apart,
are distributed at all elevations (so1ne-
times down to the valleys themselves.
many very remarkable healing springs
and never-ceasing, effervescing, min
eralized waters, most delightful to the
taste, and beneficial to the health. A
large industry is springing up in the
direction of an export trade for these
waters.
Q.-You seem to be making much of
portion of your State we had sup
posed of no value Your literature
deals mainly with the valleys. and
apologies for large proportion of
waste country. Haven't you finished
with the mountains?
A.-No; not quite You are right
about our not having given sufficient
prominence to our mountain resources.
have only one or two more points to
make, and then we will come down
few thousand feet-perhaps, you may
think, out of the clouds. Let me as
sure you. I have not been chasing rain
bows. We have at hand here in this
exhibition hall confirmation of the
great value of all these things I am
talking about.
Look again at the map Of California.
Commence, here in Shasta County, at
the head of the Sacramento Valley Do
you see those streams marked on the
map, taking their rise in the Sierra
Mountains? Run your eye along the
mountain side, clear down to the Te-
hachapi Pass. You see the snake-like
tracks on the map at short intervals,
leading up to the mountain tops These
torrential streams have a fall, TO the