The Placer herald., 1858-10-30

of the fruit So rapid and luxuriant has
been the growth Of the peach trees that
their branches have interocked, completely
closing the avenues between the rows. and
forming dense mass of foliage For the
benefit of the orchard the Major finds it
necessary to take out portion of the trees,
and intends having three or four hundred
cut down this fall. In the garden there are
also quite a number of bearing fig trees,
some of them from eighteen to twenty feet
in height. A young orchard of different
varieties of fruit is coming on rapidly. There
is choice variety of shrubbery and flowers,
and melon patches and vegetable beds suffi-
cent to supply great many persons.
Although having Touring mill of good
capacity, the increasing demands of the bu-
siness has induced the proprietor to erect
larger mill, and he has commenced the
foundation of a more extensive structure.
The present adobe hotel is also to give place
to a splendid brick building, the brick for
which has been burned upon the farm, and
commencement made upon the house.
which will be, if the original design is car
ried out the most superior house in the
northern portion of the State. After visit
ing the different improvements Of the farm,
under the guidance of Major Bidwell, we
once more took the road, and passing
through a succession of woodland and prari
rie, and in the course crossing the bright
and sparkling waters of Deer Creek
tributary of the Sacramento, and any
number of dry creeks, reached Tehama, on
the west bank of the Sacramento.
The particular advantage Tehama possesses
by its Io' alton is not apparent to the traveller,
and the probability of its aspiring to the
| dignity Of city is rather remote. 1t is no
longer the head of navigation, Red Bluff
having secured that enviable position and
per consequence become the elnbarcadero
for the goods for the upper country. Nome
Lackee is about twenty miles from, and near
y west of Tehama, and situated among the
oval shaped hills at the foot of the Coast
Range. We arrived here after three days
! travel-the distance from Auburn to this
point is about 1876 miles. The Reserva-
tion contains 25,00O acres Of land, much
Of which is unfit for tillage but is vau-
able for grazing. Wild oats grow in great
luXuriance on the hills, and on the Rescr-
vation, where the cattle have been kept off,
is now standing thick and tall. The main
agricultural land of the Reservation is a
valley running nearly east and west, about
five miles in length, and not exceeding a
quarter Of Il mile in width at any part
There are other smaller valleys that are also
cultivated. The past season some 800 acres
were sowed in wheat and barley from which
bountiful crop, more than sufficient to last
until next years harvest was gathered. This
fall it is the intention to plow 1000 acres for
seeding purposes to provide for any increase
Of consumption tlab may occur by the fur
ther accession of Indian tribes OF cattle
there are between three and four hundrt d
head upon the Reservation; about 400 head
ofhogs, and work horses, oxen, mules, and II
ding horses, sufficient for the labor to e
performed.
We have now been here several days and
seen much to interest us, but the length Of
the foregoing compels the postponement Of
further items for another letter, and with the
consent Of the kind readers of the Herald
will, for the present, bid them good night.
NJ