Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-03-11
ves..abls rroaue.,ou. Of OarIrsrula.

MA, OOt nave usually regarded lnem
as exaggerations. A letter from our
friend, Gen. D. Wilcox, of this coun-
ty, now in California, puts us in pos
session of statements in regard TO this
extraordinary productiveness, which
NAV be relied on. The letter Of
Gen w. is dated "San Francisco,
Nov. 18th, 1851" and saws: "En-
closed ] send you an address before
the agricultural and mineral fair
delivered last evening, or rather
some extracts from it. How far you
may give it credit for truth, | know
not, but OF one thing | am satisfied:
that is, that California, in an agri-
cultural point oI view, is capable OF
sustaining as large a population as
Missouri One acre of land here
can be made produce as much as FIVE
acres of the ordinary farming lands
oil Missouri. You may plant pota-
toes every month in the year with
a certainty Of raising good CROP
We have green corn now in market
in abundance; onions, turnips and
radishes are sown all the year round;
three good crops Of wheat and barley
have often been harvested from one
sowing. Oats and clover grow
abundantly without sowing at ALL
In point of health and climate,
doubt whether California is surpassed
by any country on arth."-Mis-
souri, Courier.
Address before the Agricultural A and Miner
al Fair.
We present to-day some interes-
ting extracts, illustrative of Califor-
mia and her productions, from an
address, delivered before Mr.. Shell
tons Agricultural and Mineral Fair.
We regret that our limits will not
permit US TO give it in full. Cal.
Courier.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Having been invited by Mr.. Shell
ton to present to our fellow citizen,
Mr.. Horner, silver goblet, as pre-
MUM for his success in advancing
the agricultural interests Of our
State, embrace the opportunity to
congratulate you on the occasion
upon which we are assembled. |
congratulate him whose laudable en-
terprise and untiring industry in
procuring so varied and rich a dis
play of the products of our soil and
State, have crowned with such brill
liant success; and especially do !
congratulate our State and country
upon the first dawn of that develope-
ment Of our agricultural wealth and
resources, which is destined soon TO
convert the "western forests into a
garden, and make the wilderness
bud and blossom as the rose" In
most of the others, single excel
lence is characteristic and predomi-
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 & fruits OF
the Middle and western States, the
copper Of Michigan, the corn, tobac-
co and hemp of Virginia and Ken
lucky, the cotton 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, con-
stitute respectively their most promi.
nent and distinctive interests, and
are the pride and glory Of their citi-
zens. But there is scarcely one oi
these that cannot be found or pro-
duced 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 apri.
cot, and the pomegranlte OF the
South, mingled in the same luxuri-
ant gardens of Los Angeles, with
the peach, the pear. the cherry, the
plum, the ounce, and the apple oi
the North--the fruits of the oak and
pine, Of gigantic 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 in some instances, sixty
pounds, which vie with any. either
in fineness Of texture and richnes:
OF flavor, as well as in size--and one
uncommon article of fine white su
gar, the emulation Of a species o
pine called the sugar pine-the sue
cessive ranges Of mountains, whose
extent is lost to view in the distance
waving with rich harvests Of oats
the spontaneous productions of th'
soil-solid trees of the redwood or
the Trinity and Shasta rivers. sixty
eight feet in circumference; the hol
low ones whose cavity has sheltered
sixtvmen and twenty mules for tn,