The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-05-11
INDUSTRIAL CALIFORNIA.


| compare with them.
INDUSTRIAL CALIFORNIA.
1t is one of the Greatest Fruit Sections in
the World.
! California is one of the most remark
able and fascinating States on the map.
If California was set down on the
Atlantic Coast and cut to fit, it would
hide from view Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Con-
necticut, Rhode Island, New York,
| New Jersey, Maryland, and all of
| Virginia east of the mountains. If
| just dropped down on the Atlantic
| Coast its northern line would fall up
on Maine, where it touches salt water
| fartherest north, while it's southern
line would be cut off at Cape Hatteras.
Or if Mt. Shasta, that great snow CAP
ped 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
| i'll California the valleys are kept in
| climate 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-fve
| days. well nigh ideal.
| California is an empire in itself, has
climate all its own and a productive
ness of soil that equals the best sections
of the United States. Its four great
i valleys Sacramento, San Joaquin,
Santa Clara and the Citrus Belt-have
only just been scratched and the pro-
| ductiveness of the soil is only just
beginning to be known.
California is one of the greatest fruit
/ sections in the world, and 10 other sec
ton of the United States can possibly
compete with California oranges,
| lemons, ralsins, asparagus, apricots
pears, and the wines, for i'll point of
quality these products are peerless,
more luXuriant in production and more
delicious in flavor than those raised (ex-
cept in hot houses i'll any other section
of the United States
But there are many other products.
For example, English walnuts, prunes,
| olives and the white Smyrna zig, all of
which hold the attention of commerce
as the coming great contributor to do
nestle and foreign markets.
When California is spoken of every
/ OuC COuSluelS Vic Sltlc do SN llollS ulOuo
with delicious fruits and beautiful
! flowers. But the wise ones who look
/ from the ''tree top are beginning to
appreciate the value of California as
the great producer of the common
products, such as alfalfa, five crops
year, two tons to the acre, SIS the
average price per ton. These are the
facts that appeal to the husbandmen.
Fancy farming is productive of great
profit, but plain, every day, old-fashion-
ed farming in California brings the
round returns in dollars and cents for
every day labor and the expenditure of
a limited capital. Ten acres of Cali
fornia land will produce in baled alfalfa
81, 500 year gross, at cost 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 the country.
There is in California an opportunity
for every man in every walk OF life,
whether professional, commercial,
mechanic, common laborer or farmer,
and the great ranges which have hither-
to been controlled by large capital in
terests are being divided now into forty
and eighty acre tracts, upon which a
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
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 bis 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 California as it is in the East, which
makes a man more independent, and
the mild winters and the comfortable
summers give to every member of his
family the best opportunity to make
use of time and thought for hand and
brain.
The most remarkable feature of Cali
fornia climate is its sameness, north
and south. Heat and cold are matter
of altitude, not latitude. Oranges
grow to perfection in Riverside; so do
they in the upper Sacramento Valley,
oyer five hundred miles north In foot
hills, valleys and along the coast wild
flowers land cultivated flowers, too)
bloom the length of California in mid
winter.
| For Over Sixty Years