The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-01-31
Letter from Cnlisorpi,

Letter from California.
Mr. A. III. Variel, formerly of New Har-
mony, and who left this point for California
with the Evansville companies last year, to
cross the plains, has written letter to Mr..
Geo. Flower, which we find published in the
Mt. Vernon Gazette. We make the fol-
lowing extracts. Speaking of California, he
says: -
The farming business must be first rate.
supIoln list OF Tavern charges, and the
price OF provisions. For man and mule
one night, the terms are. supper 81, bed 80
cents, breakfast 81 ,stabiing the mule. nd ono
shilling per ID for the oat.hay,t to feed him,
will swell the bill up to about SIS. A drin,,
or cigar is separate charge, 25cts each.
SO you see a dollar goes but a little way.
Price current of Marysvile. Pork and hams
soc per 10. Beef from 20 to 25c. aud that
seems to be the standing price. Flour S35
per bbl. Coffee SOC. Tea about the same
as in the Atlantic States. Syrup 81 25 per
gal. Potatoes u pc: Id, Onions l2b, Cab
bage 15c, Turnips &c. Ill vegetables grow
we'll are fine in quality and of large size
One turnip raised at this place, weighed the
enormous weight of 10 lbs. Beets grown
here are the largest and the sweetest that
ever saw.
The labor bestowed on your garden at
Harmony would have produced five thousand
dollars here. You can sell all that you raise
on your rancho for ready money, no truck and
turn over here By taking them 20 the
mines you can make yet more Of them.
With some means to begin, either at Sacra-
mentO or Marysyille, in your line of business
much more money is to be made with less
labor than with you. The climate is love
able. Tho in the vallies it is said to be
very hot in the summer, | am told it is very
pleasant on the Coast.
A trip on the plains may be felt hard to
persons not accustomed TO labor and rough
living. Yet aged persons stood the journey
very well this season, better than many
young ONES. The chances of sickness and
accident are about the same by land as water
| BY water you pay out much more, and what
is spent is lost. BY land, you put your
means in stock and wagons, and drive all
along with you. 1t is true water way is
short-the land long and tedious. But i
you get to California safely with the stecb
it is worth from six to ten times more than
you gave for it, in the States. Such a wag.
on as Albert Fisher stated from Harmony
with is worth here from three to four hun
dred dollars. Michael Craddock's, one hun.
bred, Charles Twlgg's wagon, (the dancing
feather) which now own, about one hun
dred. Such COW as you had last winter
will sell here for $50 to SIoO. A fat O2
weighing 500 lbs. sells for $l70 on FOOT
He alludes to the imposilions practices
upon crgrants crossing the plains, at every
trading post, &C., and says:
II seems to be one continued system o
; spoliaton. From the time you commenc,
preparations at home until you get here an,
into business, man must be on his guGrt
at all points. But once here in business i
comes back very fast / assure you. Cali
Iornia is the place to make money.
am wintering just at the foot of tn
snow line in beautilul valley, one and
half miles from Fosters Bar on the Nort
Uba River. | have located small noun
tain farm, one that can irrigate with bu
little labor. We have not sold our team We
but have them at at ranch at S4 each pc
month, insured at $50 each from loss. Tel
sfr. Netteton that pork is only $50 per BIB
at San Francisco, with fair prospect for
| IN no binhar Tfv-0un nuke pre- 10 snl
here. Beef is also scarce and will be h. Of
for a year to come, as the demand canno
be supplied from the States by one half. S
never fear to bring stock here ifyou wish t.
come, for you can get from ten to twent
times what they cost in the States, when the
are once in the Sacramento Valley.
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