Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-01-14
Mineral and Agricultural Capabilities
o. California.

TMr Andrew Williams lately delivered
an address upon the " Mineral and Agri
cultural Capabilities Of California" before
a numerous assembly Of the friends oi
agriculture in San Francisco. The address
contains one of the most extraoi dinary
statements of facts We have ever read.
We present 10 our readers 4 few of its
most remarkable passages from report III
the Sau francisco Herald
In most Of the other States, single
excellence is characteristic and predoml-
nant. The lumber of Maine, the granite
of New Hampshire, the wool Of Vermont,
the manufactures of Massachusetts,, the
agriculture Of New York, the coal and
iron of Pennsylvania, the grain and fruits
of the Middle and Western States, the
copper of Michigan, the corn, tobacco and
hemp Of Virginia and Kentucky, the cot
ton of Alabama and Georgia, the sugar Of
Louisiana, the sugar, cotton and indigo of
Texas, the turpentine Of North Carolina,
and the rice of South Carolina, constitute
respectively their most prominent and dis
tinctive interests, and are the pride and
.Io-- ~ .hs;r o;t;,nrs D.. .l--- =
scarcely one of these that can not be found
or produced in our own State. In the
natural productions Of the earth, conducive
to the sustenance of man, is our State
abundantly prolific.
As We approach the centre Of the State,
the banana, the orange, the lemon, the
olive, the fig, the plantain, the nectarine,
the almond, the apricot, and the pome-
granate of the South, mingle in the same
luzurians gardens Of Los Angeles, with
the peach, the pear, the cherry, the plum,
the ounce, and the apple Of the North
the fruits of the oak and the pine, Of gi-
gantic size and delicious taste, furnishing
to man and beast the richest and most
nutritious food the beautiful salmon of
the noble Sacramento, often weighing
thirty, forty, and, ia some instances, sixty
pounds, vying with any, either in fneness
of texture and richness of favor, as we'll
as in size; and one uncommon article of
fine white sugar, the exudation of species
Of pine tree called the sugar pine the
successive range of mountains whose e1-
tent is lost to view in the distance, waving
with rich harvests of oats, the spontaneous
productions Of the soil solid trees of the
red wood on the banks of the old Trinity
and Shasta rivers, sixty-eight feet in cir.
eumference; hollow ones whose cavity has
sheltered sixteen men and twenty mules
for tue night; pines crowning the dizzy
peaks of the Sierra Nevada, three hundred
and eighty feet in height, the first two
hundred and fifty feet without branch
CT hmb-an extent of growth so far beyond
the Ordinary size, as to seem almost in
credible, but well known, and seen, and
verified by the uniform and concurrent
testimony Of many whom see sitting
around me.
On land owned and cultivated by Mr. !
James Williams, an onion grew to the
enormous weight Of twenty-one pounds
Oh TINS same land turnip vas grown
which equalled exactly in size the head of
a hour barrel On land owned and cult.
waited by Thomas FOllen, cabbage grew,
which measured, while growing, thirteen
feet SIX inches around its body it's weight
y not known. The various cereal grain,