The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-09-19

IInmedlaTe ueIiNerV
OF the precipitation into the channels of the
central drainage OF these areas will vastly
augment the torrential character of the
streams ard ultimately destroy the navieability
OF the principal water highways OF the state.
Greatly Increased maximum hood stages dur
ing the rainy seaser would ensue ana unnav-
lEabie low water In the river channels q
period q six months IN each year would fol-
low.
CLIMATE AND LATITUDE.
General N p. Chapman calls atten-
ton, while considering the climate of
California, to the fact that 1T is not
generally app eciated that all of
France all OF Italy north of Rome and
half of Spain lie rr.th OF the north
boundary OF California" He says:
tbs fact that latitude has little to do with
cur climate IS a rsmarkable TEXTURE. 1t is
mol TIE " LAZY, AZ tI4tle is Il great VarI-
ation there between the temperature north and
sCutE. IL Is not true OF France elsewhere
s:ior- the west crast OF Europe. We believe
this 20 De a peculiarly unique and found only
On tas coast. This lecuIlaFity is further at
tested by the fact thai IN all this vast region
the same fruits are grown. Within raulus
OF nifty miles around Oroville. which Is $50
niles north VI S..n francesca and $50 miles
nOlth oil Los Angeles, there were more than
l0gO carloads OF oranges raised last year and
shi. ped cut Of the state, and they ripen
carrier than in the south Elevation has
n.uck more 10 do VITA temperature than lati-
tude. Tor in high attitudes we md our
mountain SUMMER climate is extremely de-
people to the numerous charming retreats in
the Sierra and the Coast Range. But after all
is said, it must be conceded that climate is
our -reatest resource because OF its hiSh cco-
nomic value. Thc unthinking speak of eli
mate as an attraction rather than 4 resource
but II Is resource because BY its influence
we are enabled to so marvelously diversity and
increase the number OF our agricultural prod
ucts; and often, too. all these products may
be -rown on the same body of land. II Is a
reso..rce. because RAMS labor here can be
nrofitably employed every day in the year;
because there is no month when vegetation in
some form is hct growing and because II fur
nishes ideal conditions icr the growth OF ir-
risated crops. There is 10 time when all ma
ture is at rest or niant life is sleeping. n
the field, orchard garden factory and in the
mines, or the stock farm and in the dairy
every day is day Of productive labor We
comr,ence shiTpinC fresh dsciduors fruits In
May and there is no cessation until Decsm-
Der. In November we begin To ship citrus
fruits and they overlap the deciduous fruits
and continue in fact the year through.
CALL TO DIMIGRANTS.
Colonel John P. Irish voices Cali
fornia's Call to the Immigrant" This
is of as much practical interest as any
topic that can be selected. 1T is not
pretended" writes Colonel Irish, that
California supplies any specific from
her wealth of sell and sunshine that
will cure unthrift bad judgment and
lack Of faculty, or make the do-less
doer, but there is legitimate basis of
belief that here the average man may
work, in greater comfort, more days
in the year and earn his bread easier
than under the conditions that prevail
in any other State or country" Then
he saws:
All stone fruits ard the fig, pomegranate,
cocioua bearers. The peach will bloom the
second year frem the pit. On the Mediter-
years of are here it bears 4 fun crop at
seven In the East he mt 81 be young man
shade or m eat lis fruit. Here old mon - NAV
plant and surely expect to enjoy the results.
The e owth of animals is net checked here by
the equal Of any Eastern two-year4old.
But, 1t may be asked, is this precocIty
by early decay? The answer is. No. That
rule has here it's exception. The peach tree
that blooms before the shell Of the pit that
more Olive trees that furnished oil for the
sacramento of TIRE old mission fathers a hun
deners who planted them and ripen their year
ly crop wits undated energy.
But men fail in California? Yes. Men who
buy lard and hire 1t planted and worked run
ming 1t or the absentee landlord s:rstem, fall
here and everywhere. SO DO men fail who run
manufactures and trade on the same system.
But men who take here only so much land as
they have tic means and the ability to con-
labor Of their own families do not fail for
here nature helps the industrious hand and
nowhere Use does lnttthEtHt LABOR add
much 10 the value of the land for the reason
that here Eattne holds one handle of the plow
Horticulture here rises to the rank of a pro-
fession Our soil and climate are so ada pted
to II that fruits from every zone may be
grown The clemency of climate and its
halcyon quality invite enterprise and Ingenuity
10 experiment in all horticultural refinements
No equal area of the earth's surface has pro-
duced profitaby variety of the fruits OF
tree vine and shrub equal TO that of California
No place presents better facilities for va !.
riety farming II is practiced in the Mississ-
ippi Valley. With small tract OF land which
may be cared for by the labor of an ordi-
nary family. with some orchard and Vineyard