The San Francisco call., 1908-05-25
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on the steamer at the wharf. a pleas
ant function in which Stockton men,
Sacramento men and Marysyllle me1
took part Carriages took the big
party to the Northern Electric terminus
at s a m. and a special of four coaches
was soon whisking the visitors up the
valley ut the rate of 90 miles an hour
The Northern Electric people are proud
of the $50 mile line and their pride is
justified by both equipment and service.
electric transportation project. was one
of the eXcursionists. General Counsel
Arthur NJ. Seymour was one OF the
Sacramentans who Joined the party.
and there several others of the staff
went along including General Manager
A. D. SCHNEIDER. Two or three of the
eXcursionists are directors of the road.
EXPLAINS VALLEYS RICHES
The Sacramento valley farmers and
boosters are mostly young men and
original home and source of the science
of promotion, might learn things on
such trip as San Francisco's big busi-
neSSmen finished last night. Secretary
o. W. Miller of the Sacramento valley
development association was along,
quietly dropping a cluster OF facts here
and a bunch Of figures there among the
capitalists where they would do the
most good. 1t interested eyes and ears
well used to big figures when they
learned that Miller talked for an or
ganiZation that is helping to greater
prosperity IL counties in the great val
ley with a total area of 100000 acres,
or more than the whole state of Illi-
nois The capitalists learned also that
these counties added s25.000.000 to
their assessed valuation last wear and
that in the same period Sacramento
county's population increased nearly
$4,000.
VISITORS ARE WELCOMED
Mayor Peter Delay of Marysville, who
is an editor as well, had come down the
road to Sacramento to greet the visit
ors. Others on the Marysville reception
committee We're: c. S. Brooks. w. H.
Parks, H. Garden, c. F. Aaron. NJ
more, H p. Stabler, G. w. Hall and W.
+. Sperry. There was little time for
sight seeing at Marysville. but the local
chamber of commence made the most of
it. They pinned beutonnieres on the
visitors, saw to it that they were nei-
ther thirsty nor smokeless and took as
many of them as would leave the cool
comfort of the cars for short automo-
bile spins about the historic old town.
OrovilIe has been sitting up nights
doing some effective thinking about
how to entertain the visitors: car
load of citizens had come down the
road to Marysyille, with band, banner
and badges, flowers. food, drink, cigars,
literature, a ringing boost yell and the
UneSI GDlIuSldSIu lIldl ever Was. 1HcN
got a hammer lock on the attention of
the excursionists as soon as they could
decently take the party out of Marys-
villes hands, which was on the out
skirts of Marysvflle.
BUTTE'S RICHES PRESENTED
There isn't much that Butte county
does not produce from gold down-or
up as you please-but the best of her
products is a civic spirit that any COM
munity might envy. If that spirit could
only "a canned and irnn0rfQd hV q
bay counties the metropolis and her
sister cities would come earlier to
realization of their dreams of great
ness. The smiling and eager Orovil-
lains pressed olives, pickles, cherries,
oranges. sandwiches, cold drinks, ci-
gars and flowers on the captains of
Industry and then settled down to the
most beautiful exhibition of promotion
team play to be witnessed in all the
bustlings west. The best takers of
Butte had volunteered for the task
They wasted no time on speeches, but
picking. out twos and threes of their
guests, slid easily into seats with them
and, while the special hummed along
through the foothills, painted them the
loyeiiest pictures imaginable of Buttes
beauties and resources. They dealt
chiefly in cold facts, put up in neat and
attractive packages. Occasionally they
twirled a hammer and aimed it at Los
Angeles.
FORTUNE IN FINE FRUITS
See the peach orchard over there"
said an OroviIle booster We'll that's
Hazelbush's Last year he sold $1750O
worth of peaches off 80 acres, netting
him $4,000" Whose eyes would not
have bulged at figures like those?
They told how 40 acres of prunes
netted $4,000 last year. and they swore
to it that Butte county olive growers
like Judge Gray had long term con-
tracts with Los Angeles people for all
their olives at s65 ton on the trees
and that these olives Were hauled south
in great brine tanks and sold later
picked or oil. under Los Angeles
year. especially at Thanksgiving time
fortunate Butte sold carloads of her
early oranges TO deceitful Los Angeles
They asserted that Butte's dredger
sifted out enough gold to make her
lead California in yellow metal pro-
duction, and capped this with the claim
that, except for oranges and lemons,
Butte yielded more fruit than all Cali
fornia below the Tehachepis.
Looking out of the, car windows on
a country that was bare three years
ago, but now holds a little house and
a big barn for every 20 acres, wherever
there is irrigation the excursionists
We're ready to believe almost anything
the boosters said and to credit the
statement, attributed to government
irrigation experts, that. with feasible
conservation of its waters and reclama-
tion of it's river lands. the Sacramento
valley has 100000 acres that may be
added TO its agricultural lands and that
each of these acres will support one
person.
ENTERTAINED AT ORovILLE
At Oroyile the town was out, 1t
seemed, to the last man to entertain
the down state visitors. Some few
excursionists wherever they wanted to
go and they were a unit on wanting to
see the giant gold dredgers eating their