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There are many orchards of deciduous and citrus fruits 

 near Vina. The lands are rich and a bountiful yield is the 

 result every year. The number of hands employed in the 

 orchards near Vina, including the Stanford Ranch, during 

 the harvesting season, is nearly 2000. Quite a large num- 

 ber of these are kept the year round. 



Large bodies of our finest agricultural land have, until 

 recently, been owned and operated by single holders. This 

 system is no longer profitable, as the crops usually grown 

 were grain, and owing to the steady falling off in price of all 

 cereals, our large holders of land are sub-dividing their 

 properties into ten and twenty-acre tracts, which brings 

 them within the reach of the home-seeker of moderate 

 means. On the east side of the Sacramento River from Red 

 Bluff some 2000 acres of the choicest land in the count}' 

 is being sub-divided and is placed on the market in small 

 tracts. So if you are in search of a home and would 

 engage in horticulture and sit under your own vine and fig 

 tree, the chance of a life time to procure such is here offered. 

 The soil is good ; water plentiful, the climate is all that 

 could be wished. 



We extend a cordial invitation to the home-seeker and 

 the home-maker, the merchant, the manufacturer, or the 

 capitalist, who will find here a "land of promise,"" a com- 

 munity of cvdture and refinement, and a place where boun- 

 teous nature holds out a promise of rich reward to all who 

 by ordinary thrift and industry invite success, and to such 

 we offer the following information in condensed form : 



Sunstrokes are unknown. 



Water power is unexcelled. 



The hay harvest begins in June. 



Vegetables can be grown easily. 



The climate is very mild in winter. 



Earthquakes never visit this section. 



We have never had a failure of crops. 



The professions are well represented. 



Lightning and thunder are very unusual. 



Blizzards we never have, and frosts rarely. 



There is a steady increase in land cultivation. 



