Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-05
AN INDIANS DESCRIPTION OF CALIFORNIA.

The Cherokee Advocate contains long letter
from one of the Nation. We select few passages !:
Persons, however, who intend coming California with
the view of making sudden fortunes, by gathering gold like
pebbles sand the Shore had better remain where
they for assure them they will be sadly dsappon
ed the day past and gone for this and did exist
the extent represented, that many atered themselves
did, when they left good comfortable home for
tune in months years time in California Thousands
have returned home worse off than when they came and
thousands not able to return for want Of few
making pncey fortunes, hundreds rapidly making
gentee fortunes by trade while thousands are slowly reaz-
ing business that will few years make them independent
But indeed every man, who is either not hzy labor
too progate to is here doing WELL much better than
be could do with the any other country, now
kno wn to US, on the face of the earth.
The spontaneous productions Of this country excel all
have any where The blossoms and the great
ey of flowers that the plains next the mountains
really magnificent Of almost endless variety, kind and colors
The wild poppes have appropriated themselves thousands
of acres next to the mountains We could manufacture
opium here with vengeance judging from The quantity Of
the raw material The grain grasses and vegetables, that
grow without cultivation, superior to any thing ever
not much from the great number aud variety Of the
articles as from their perfection and quality Grapes, Of
most delicious flavor and Of several varieties grow here in
great abundance ParnP Of excellent quality grow all
the southern mnes the banks Of the creeks and n the
ravnes being much used by the miners substitute for the
cultivated article. have Of them, and found them
good am told that there many other vegetables grow
Wu na resemble tn0Se cuvaed and are used f00d
and found to be excellent but as have seen paaken
of them, will defer naming describing them until have
done both
The prevailing feed for animals in this section is wild oats
with clover the and occasionally extending far back
in the interior This superior feed both in its green and
dry state. Timothy and other nutritious grasses also
found here the rivers and the PLANES but the wild
takes precedence Of all others in the upper part Of the State
and clover in the lower part The every hill and
vsey and nearly every foot Of open land in the whole State
varying in height and quality according to soil and location
have them high the back Of the taes horse fire.
quenty with large strong stalk and very good gran and
all appearance in size and quality of grain, quite equal to the
domestic article yet the heads quite small in proportion
to the stalk On the hills and sterile Soils grows
from knee to waist high makes excellent pasusge and per-
ects its grain. Timber in the valleys and plains scarce
amounting in places to entire absence Of the article and
what there in these situations h for nothing but fewood
The prevailing timber (when any in the valleys plains, and
water courses is kind Of scrubby live oak, with few other
varieties not worthy of mention.
party of my acquantances have been Humboldt Bay
this summer and they say is certainly true that four ofhem
rode their horses abreast into the hollow Of of these
redwood) wheeled In it. and rode again, sl abreast
have any large that but have many
that would git thirty feet, very tall and handsome this
Der only found in the mountains and spots up and down
the coast There edwoods north and south Of this place.
within twenty miles, Humboldt Bay (ner the line n Ore
gon) abounds in this timber il is good building timber, and
equal to cedar for fencing, being much like it in quality and
appearance.