Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-12-26
of cabbage, of enormous size.


5000 melons.
80 bushels Of tomatoes.
1000 lbs. onions.
10000 lbs. potatoes.
200 bushels Of corn.
1000 lbs pumpkin and squash.
Also, large quantity of radishes, beans peas,
beets, peppers, &c.
With improved cultivation, the Republican
says the above product might be easily doubled.
In cultvating tule lands no irrigation is necessa-
ry for the reason that the soil is of peculiar
impermeabe nature, and the fresh water is al
ways found within two and three feet Of the sur.
face.
You can credit as much or little of it as you
choose, bear IL mind there are always two sides
OF question. / have observed some few at
temps at gardening in the mountains, some are
doing well, others sinking both money and labor,
an instance related me by Thorpe will show the
former, "Howeil raised near Rough & Ready
few oats, he bound two sheaves packed them on
mule to Grass Valley, sold the two bundles at
Is cts. per- b., amounting to twenty SIX and
half dollars" An instance Of the latter, from
my next door neighbors, Geo. Gephard & Co
of Chicago hare under cultivation Is acres in
potatoes, cabAage, MELONS &c. from which they
have not received, and probably will not receive
any remuneration; if gentle rain might fair
soon it would revive their hopes as well as poia-
toes.
Now, will lightly touch the timber Of Cali
fosnia. Il cannot in justice be disputed but
there are some magnificent pines in the s. Ne
vala Mountains, but they are mostly too high up
to be available, and the rivers are too maj row
rocky and pfeclpitous, to permit even loose logs
eafeIy 10 descend.
The lumber of the Mountains is mostly made
OF an inferior kHotty pine. The oaks here are
very poor, in the Sacramento Valley they are
magnificent, only for their spreading boughs, the
shade of which, cover at noon an almost incredi-
bic area of ground. In either place il is almost
the only hardwood timber.
But now 10 q statement, which even many
Califoreians Will not credit yet am responsible
for the tale bac' ed by many staunch witnesses
In July 1850 in company with many others |
left Sacramento for Humbot Bay, by way OF
Readings dIggings and Trinity river; taking the
common wagon road 10 r. and thence the pack
trail nothing of interest occurred to cheer US
on except few false alarms by Indians. for a
day or two plenty OF the finest of choke cherries
(fruit a rare luxury in the Mountains of Califor-
MAJ until we arrived in fifteen miles of Union
City, Esome cities in California with one whole
house sometimes rather shattered thought there
we entered forest in every sense Of the word,
mostly composed OF red wood, q specie of Pine,
which | never saw in any other position Of Cal.
than nearer the western base Of the coast range
of Mountains; after riding but a short distance
curiosity led me to use my assoc in measuring
tree, did so, and fastening one end to the bark
as high up as | could reach, travelled around
until had to stop tor want of rope, but, sue
ceedng in measuring the tree and my Assoc af-
ter, found it to be forty feet in circumference
and probably four hundred feet high, as it held
its size full as well as any tree | ever saw, as
far up as we could see, for surrounding trees did
not permit US to see the top. Many hundred, APP
parenIy such, We passed, and some very much
larger, one of which measured, bat will for
bear description least spoil it all suffice it TO
say that it would be impossible TO cut wagon
road through this forest, which at that place is
only Is miles wide.
enclose the Sacramento prices, and few
particles Of fine dust, which we save with muddy
water, and you may count them at your leisure
Excuse me for wasting paper and all ortho-
graphic errors, this is no place for bookish men.
know Of no kenosha chaps save Thorp
Yours &c.
GEO. ]. KELLOGG