The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-05-12
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INDUSTRIAL CALIFORNIA.
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ApriI 1Q05

BILE and fascinating States on the map.
If California was set down on the At
lantic coast and cut to fit, it would hide
from view Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New
York, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Mary
land and all OF Virginia east of the noun
tains. If just dropped down on the At
lantic coast its northern line would fall
upon Maine, where it touches salt water
fartherest north, while its southern line
would be cut off at Cape Hatteras. Orif
Mount Shasta, the great snow-capped
peak of California, overlooked New York
City, then San Diego, that wonderful city
on the southern boundary of California.
would be near neighbor to St. Augustine,
Fla.
Between the sea and the mountains in
California the valleys are kept in CHM
ate warmed by the sun, tempered by the
Pacific stream and cooled by the snow
caps of the Sierra Nevada range. This
makes climate twelve months in the
year (three hundred and sixty-tive days.
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California is an empire in itself, has
climate all its own and productiveness
of soil that equals the best sections of the
United States, the four great valleys
Sacramento, San joaquin, Santa Clara
and the Citrus Belt. These sections have
only just been scratched and the produc
tiyeness OF the soil is only just beginning
to be known.
California is one of the greatest fruit
sections in the world, and no other sec
ton of the United States can possibly
compete with California oranges, lemons,
raisins, asparagus, apricots, pears and
the wines, for in point OF quality these
products are peerless, more luxuriant in
production and more delicious in flavor
than those raised Except in hot houses
in any other section of the United States.
But there are many other products.
For example, English walnuts, prunes,
olives and the white Smyrna fig, all OF
which hold the attention of commerce as
the coming great contributor to domestic
and foreign markets.
When California is spoken OF every one
considers the State as synonymous with
delicious fruits and beautiful flowers.
But the wise ones who look from the
tree top are beginning to appreciate
che value of California as the great pro-
Queer of. the common products, such as
alfalfa, five crops year, two tons to the
acre, and SIS the average price per ton,
These are the facts that appeal to the
husbandmen. Fancy farming is produc-
tive of great profit, but plain, every day,
old-fashioned farming brings the round
returns in dollars and cents for every day
labor and the expenditure of limited
capital. Ten acresef California land will
produce in baled alfalfa 81 ,500ea year
gross, at ancost of labor and interest on
the investment of not to exceed $500,
leaving net profit of 81 200 to the man
who is willing. to appreciate the needs
and demands of that-section of country.
There is in California an opportunity
for every man in every walk of life
whether professional, commercial, me-
chanic, common laborer or farmer-and
the great ranges which have hitherto
been controlled by large capital interests
are being divided now into 40 and so acre
tracts, upon which man can pay as
small sum as, 800 down and long, easy
terms to suit for the balance. These are
the things that will make men who are
fighting the cold of the winter and the
heat; of the summer rejoice that there is
a place for his family and his energies
where he can win competence and gain
foothold that will bring him not only
livelihood, but comfortable life income.
One of the remarkable things about
California to every person who lives in
the East, is that in this State there is no
desire on the part of either the man or
his family to return to his original home
in the East.
Why?
Because the heat of the summer and
the severe cold of the winter in the East
both retard the best efforts and sap the
energies of the man and woman alike,
and competition is not apparent in Cali
fornia as it is in the East, which makes
man more independent, and the mild
winters and comfortable summers give to
every member Of his family the best OPP
portunity to make use of time and thought
for hand and brain.
The most remarkable feature of Cali
fornia climate is.its sameness, north and
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titude, notlatitude. Oranges grow to per.
lection in Riverside; so do they in the
upper Sacramento Valley, oyer five hun
dred miles north. In foothills, valleys
and along the coast wild flowers land cul-