The Georgetown news., 1855-11-29
\ Thought upon California.

A writer in the San Francisco Herald
thus discourses upon the resources of this
State:
"a rising empire State like California, it
is pleasing Cor an American coming from a
foreign land to contemplate, in all its varied
resources of natural wealth. What health
full cline, in its different latitudeS towards
the Poles does it not possess in its Wales or
mountain gulches, to add to the comfort and
luxury of man Its numerous valleys, ex-
tending through ten degrees Of North lati-
tude, rendered bland by the ocean that laves
the irOn-bound shores near their base, are
capable of producing, not only the necessa-
rieS for man usually grown in the temperate
zones; but many parts of the State have,
by experiments, been found susceptible of
growing fruits natural to the tropics The
wheat, barley, oat, corn, and potato crops,
stand unrivaled in the records of history,
either for quality or quantity; and in proof
of this, throughout the entire State where
agriculture has been skilfully tried, Califor-
mans can bear witness. And further few
years since, most Of other climes of the earth
were eXhausting their granaries to furnish
the necesSarieS of life for California, while
now she exports -four to South America,
the Hawaiian Islands, Australia and New
York, for the present; the latter being now
the storehouse of the Union, and Europe in
part. She ships to the Islands and Austria
liza her superabundance of Irish potatoes,
while thousands Of bushels are destined,
10 + 10 ho !,
where they grew. Besides this considera-
tiOn Of California which she presents in
view Of tthe world, her resources are mo-
mentous in many other respects While
the South of Europe is fast failing in the
grape culture, and in the manufacture of
wine, this rising State, at no distant day,
will demonstrate to the public that she, in
this most valuable branch of agricultural
pursuits, fOurishes without an equal. Add
to this production all the other fruits COM
monty grown in the n orthern and Southern
regions of the Atlantic States, which will
find in her bosom a kindred congeniality.-
What ocean is not Whitened by sails which
carry the influence Of California in their
folds, that adds a charm to perseverance
and skill Her commerce lashing every
wOve, and her golden influence gladdening
every heart, in no distant space of time, and
within the rounds Of the present century,
will revolutionize the commerce of the civ
ilized world, passing through channel des-
tined by nature and vivacious with anima-
ted existence, when iron bands shall have
linked ocean to ocean. What luxury and
what comfort does she not anticipate and
grasp, either foreign or domestic, ana en-
deavorS to render subservient to her uses
A few years of trial will successfully unfold
her adaptability to the successful culture OF
rice. tobacco, indigo, hemp, flax, and the
castor bean; and to these commodities OF
known utility, may she not add to her gen
erous SOIL the production OF coffee and the
pineapple, by the means of adaptation and
the cultivating Of them in sheltered loca-
tiOns, Coffee trees are evergreen IN their
character, possessed of long glossy leaves,
resembling laurel, and of deep green color
The blossom is much like that Of the iassa-
mine, and sends forth most delicious fra
GRANGE, not unlike that waited upon the
bland zephyrs of far-famed Arabia. The
tree, with little attention, may be pruned
to grow as the fertile fancy of the cultivator
may direct, and slight shelter in winter
will ensure its waning keauty against in
clement skies and hoary frosts. The coffee
tree is said to be indigenous to Abysinia,
and the use Of the berry, as furnishing a
wholesome and nutritious beverage, was first
discovered in Arabia. Shall California