The Kanzas news., 1858-05-08
From the Cincinnati Commercial.

California seems destined to ssgo ahead
of the whole world, In almost everything
employing the mind and energies of man.
Not only is it the greatest gold country in
the world, and contains the richest quick
silver mine, and has the most gigantic trees
and grows the largest vegetable productions,
but it viii soon have the largest vineyard
that is to be found, we expect, anywhere in
the world. It is in Santa Anna Valley,
near the river of the same name The Steam
er Alta California, newspaper. published
at San Francisco, of Feb. 9th, contains an
interesting notice of il. extracted from the
Los Angeles Star, to which we are indebt-
ed for the following particulars. It is the
work cf German enterprise, and named
AnBaheim. !a rf t-f
Il is owned by company, and consists
and one and a quarter in width, consequent
ly containing tsceIUe hundred acres. 1t Is
surrounded by a fence five and half miles
long, which is composed of 10000 poles,
each feet in length with feet above the
ground. These are placed one and half
feet apart, and are connected together and
strengthened by three horizontal poles, and
the whole fence surrounded and defended by
ditch four feet deep and six feet wide at
the top, sloping to breadth of one foot at
the bottom. The water for irrigating it is
conveyed by ditch from the river. dis
lance of five miles, to the land, and through
it two and a half miles It is eleven feet
wide and two and half feet deep, making a
zanja of seven and half miles long. In
addition to this, there are conductors for
leading the waterover the grounds, of which
there are nine, each one and half miles
long, and fourteen, each one and a quarter
miles long, four to FIVE feet wide, and one
and half feet deep; making in all thirty
one miles of conductors. There are also
bitches six feet wide along the highest ridg
es, extending seven and half miles, and
smaller bitches meandering throughout the
grounds. 800 miles in aggregate length; ma
king IN all 346 miles of total length of bitches.
The average velocity of the water is at
the rate of 2 miles per hour, discharging
on the calculation of 90 square feet 211,
200 cubic feet Of water per hour, or $685.
800 cubic feet of water per day. The main
zanja is finished, and the water flowing in
it; yet there is no percepitible diminution of
the volume of water in the river.
Annaheim is divided into fifty lots, of 90
acres each, and these by streets rods, or
about SO feet wide, having a town site of 40
acres in the center. It is assumed to be
necessary to spread over one square foot of
land one-third of cubic foot of water,
hence to irrigate 10000 acres it will require
8,712, 900 cubic feet of water. In the ope-
rations in progress at present, they have en-
ployed SO men,, 10 women, "a horses, z
plows, and IL wagons. in procuring pro-
visions and firewood, hauling fence poles,
and fences, of whom there are two overseers,
besides cooks, DC, at daily expense of S216.
The Star remarks in reference to this en-
terprise: GAS may be expected, Annaheim
is busy place. All is life, industry and
activity. The sounds of busy labor are
heard on all sides; the driving of wagons,
the noise of the axe, the hammer and the an
vil-all combine to render visit to the place
agreeable and highly interesting-formin a
strong contrast to the gloom and silence
which heretofore prevailed
These operations of the enlerprising and
industrious Germans composing this compa
ny, according to the same paper, have had
a most beneficial effect on the people of the
neighborhood, in stimulating the nelghbor
ing rancheros; and men who before were in
clined to set light estimate on the plow,
have this year had several of them at work,
and hundreds of acres of grain have been
sown In soil never before furrowed. The
establishment of this vineyard by them at
Santa Anna Valley, will be of incalculable
advantage in developing the agricultural re-
sources of the country. The Germans are
the very people to accomplish such an un-
dertaking as this. as they generally possess
the necessary industry, patience and perse-
verance, united with habits of sobriety and
steadiness, and, added to all these, they have
been accustomed in the Fatherland to grape
raising and wine making, and understand all
about it.
California is destined to become the great
grape and wine country of the United States,
if not the greatest in the world The grape
does best in a dry and rather warm climate
and porous subsoil, and both these are to be
found in that State. And experience, the
best test, has shown its great adaptedness
to the cultivation of the vine. The grapes
of Los Angeles have already acquired char
acter In California for their excellence, while
In Santa Clara county alone there IRE seUen-
teen viHeyards, containing from 8 to 15acres
each. 1t is IN such resources as these-in
her agricultural capacities and productions
that consist the elements of her permanent
and future prosperity and greatness, and not
IN her mines oi gold, which, however ex-
tensive and rich now, must, at some future
day, become exhausted.
Her agricultural capacities are much great
er than we had any idea of from the charac-
ter of the country as mining and noun
taiusus region. We see that out of fifteen
millions of acres of public land surveyed,
ten miIlinns or two-thirds, are reported as
good land; and of this amount. says the
Stockton Democrat, two millions are as
good land as is TO be found anywhere %
It's true that in consequence of the alb