The record-union., 1898-01-24
SACRAMENTO COUNTY.
A LITTLE EMPIRE CONTAINING
BoUNDLESS RESOURCES.
Capable of Supporting Ten Times
Its Present Population IN
the Future.

pen of FL. Weinstock, one of the lead
ing merchants Of Sacramento:
Il have been spending the last few
days visiting various parts of your
county, said an Eastern visitor re-
Gently, land what l saw was perfect
revelation. It seems to me that Sac
ramento County is a little empire IN
itself and contains boundIess resources,
some of which seem but partially de-
veloped and some not developed al all.
/ have found within the boundaries OF
your county, mining, stock-raising, hop
growing, numbering, viticulture, horti-
culture, wine making, grain growing,
citrus fruit culture, and most extensive
commercial and industrial enterprises.
I wonder" he continued, how many
of your own people are aware of these
facts and fully appreciate the merit OF
their own county"
Our Eastern friend might have added
still further that he found Sacramento
the greatest fruit-shipping center of all
California and one of the greatest in all
the country. His observation was quite
correct when he intimated that compar-
atively few of our people are aware or
sufficiently appreciate the beauties or
the ADVANTAGES Ol Oul Oh IL NOAA4Ny'
How comparatively few of US know
that we have more clear days in the
year than Italy, which is famed, the
world over, for its beautiful climate
and is regarded as the worlds winter
sanitarium, and yet has but an aver
age of 220 clear days in the year
against our average of 23S, and thal
our average winter temperature IS II
degrees as against the Italian average
of 473, and that our average summer
temperature is 10 degrees, precisely the
same as that of Genoa, Italy. Few OF
us, perhaps, realize that sacramento
County has within her boundaries more
natural resources than have many en-
tire States of this Union which have
become great and wealthy common
wealths.
AS its resources become better known
and more fully developed, Sacramento
County is destined to become one of the
most populous and wealthy spots on
the globe. Her fruit interests alone
are adding largely to her wealth, her
population, and prosperity. AS 1ar
back as 1893 the annual report of the
State Board of Horticulture Of Cali
fornia, in referring TO sacramento.
SAID. w nile llETE are SCItlOi4S VI
the State of equal productiveness with
Sacramento County. yet by reason Oh
location and distance from the centers
of shipment they must resort to the
driving process with all its attendant
vicissitudes, to market their products
It is a fact, perhaps not generally
known, but easily demonstrable, that
taking the center Of Sacramento as an
initial point and drawing around it
circle having a radius Of fifty miles,
within its circle will be found the re-
esion producing the earliest vegetables,
berries and fruits within the State, as
well as the area from which is shipped
to the Eastern States and outside con
suners, more than - per cent. of the
output cf green and deciduous fruits
from the whole State, and over 30 per
cent Of it must pass through this
county on its way to reach final
market
Most counties consider themselves
specially favored if they excel in some
one direction, yet Sacramento County
easily excels in many For years the
table grapes raised along the American
River have commanded the highest
prices in the markets of the East and
nave DGEu TGEdiuC4 sS tttt AAAAN-@~ fSAAAf
ned from the State; the Bartlett pears
raised along the borders Of the Sacra-
n9ento River have likewise held the
first place in the markets Of this coun-
try and England. and recently Saera-
nento County has astonished the State
bv sending to the Eastern markets cit
rus fruits which have commanded the
very highest prices in competition with
Hf the
State: in addition to these claims for q
foremost rank. may be added the fact
that the largest thoroughbred breeding
farm in the world. known as the Ran
cho Del Paso. and located within a
few miles of the city of Sacramento.
has sent forth some Of the worlds
most famous horses
The population Of Sacramento County
at this time is less than fifty thousand.
With its fertile soil, its unexcelled cli-
mate It's convenient location geogra-
phicaIly, its intelligent fruit growers,
its enterprising citizens, Sacramento
County is destined to continue making
a healthy and rapid growth. AS its
uncommon resources become better
and more widely known, its 649,OoO
acres viii. in time, be called upon to
support perhaps ten times its present
poDulation Compared with many
other far less favored spots on the
globe. which support their hundreds Of
thousands with no greater area, Sacra-
rnento County viii have no difficulty in
supporting. in ease and comfort, a
vastly augmented population. Pales-
tine. which is but four times larger
than Sacramento County and which
has a climate and resources similar TO
our own. supported in its time, nigh
unto three millions of people; and this,
with the ancient, crude and unscientliic
methods of cultivation and production.
Though Palestine had no millionaires.
neither did 1t have any paupers. but
each man lived under his own vine and
fig tree.
with the great markets OF the world
opening out before Us for the products
Of our Sacramento orchards. vineyards,
hop fields and citrus groves. it takes no
prophetic soul nor optimistic mind to
picture a great and prosperous future
for our much favored county; nor does
II demand a serious stretch of the inn
agination to picture this. the home ot
the vine. the pear and the orange, as
the home, also, OF a race of men and
women, who. in culture and IN intelli-
genee. will in time, compare with the
highest and the best in all civilization.
II. WEINSTOCK.