New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-14

and strong impulse to it. Lresdy rapid growth
Located st TIE Junction Of the fuea and Feather
Rivers, just above their union with the Sacramento
and at the head Of steamboat navigation In the d.
recton Of the Northern Mines, it needs but the
Railroad connections aforesaid to render it 8 for
midable rival to Sacramento herself The census
of 1870 will probably 6ui its population exceeding
$4,000.
The valleys Of the rivers frat named are exceed
inely deep ard fertile, and their produchvsness IN
this vicinity almost aurpssses belief visited this
morning, in the suburbs, gardens, vineyards,
orchards, Of r,rely equaled fruitfulness. The
orchard of Mr.. Br ggs, for example. covers 100
scres, al young fruit probably one-hAlf peaches
He has bad squad Of thirty or forty men picking
and boxing peaches for the Last month, yet his
fruit by the CARLOAD ripens ard rots ungsthered-
The wagons which convey it - the Mines have
their regular stations aud relay of horses Like mail
stages, and are thus pulled sixty miles up rough
mountain passes, per day, where twenty-five miles
would be heavy days work for any one team. But
be is not sending to the Mines only, but BY steam
His sales Ia.t year. am told amounted TO so, 600;
bis net income wa,not less than $4,000. AMI
this was realized mainly from Peaches, Apricots and
Nectarines; bis Apples aud Pears have barely be-
gun to bear; hh Cherries will yield their first crop
next year There are of. course heavier fruis
growers in California than Mr.. Briggs, but be may
be taken as fair sample Of the class. Their saes
will doubtless be made at lower and still lower
prices; they are now q little higher than those
realized for similar fruit grown in NegJersey;
they were once many times higher than now; but,
though their prices steadily decrease their incomes
do not because their haryests continued to be aug
mented by at least twenty five per cent per annu n
Let NE give one other instance of successful
fruit growing in another district: Mr.. Fallon, the
Mayor of San Jo,e, has fine garden, in which are
some ten O. twelve old pear trees-relics of the
Spanish era and of the Jesuit Missions. The trees
being thrifty but the fruit indifferent, Mr.. T. had
them pretty thoroughly grated with the Bartlett
variety and the second year thereafter gathered
from one tree one thousand pounds of Bartlett
Pears which he sold for 5000, or twenty cents per
pound. The other trees similarly treated bore him
ak to seven hundred pounds each OF that large,
delicious fruit, which he sold at the same price,
And every year since these trees have borne large
yields of these capital pears. / dare not hope for
equal success in the East but surely the expedient
of grating fine, large varieties ON our no~ worth
less Pears, at the same time bounteoasy enrichiDg
the soil beneath them, ough. to be more generally
adopted than it has yet been.
just word now on Grain. California is still
4 young State, whose industry and enterprise are
largely devoted to INNINGS yet she grows the
bread of her ii ,f Million well fed inhabitants on
less than fortieth part of her arabic SOIL and Will
this year have some to spare. am confident her
Wheat crop of 1859 is ever -Four Millions of bush
els, and think it exceeds twenty. five bushels for
each acre sown. To-day, its price in San Francis
co is below dollar per bushel, and 1t Is not likely
10 rise very soon. Though grown, harvested and
threshed by the help of labor which costs her farm
ers from thirty to forty dollars per month"; beside
board, it is still mainly grown at profit; and so OF
very large breadth Of Barley, grown here instead
of Oats as food for working horses and cattle.
Though Wheat is probably the fullest, Judge that
Barley is the surest of any grancrop grown in the
State It has never failed to any serious extent.
Indian Corn is not extensively grown; only the
Russian River and one or two other small valleys
are generally supposed we'll adapted to it. And
vet, never saw larger or better corn growing
than stands to-day right here on the fubs-not
few acres merely, but hundreds Of acres in body.
Judge that nearly all the interyales throughout
the State would produce good corn, if we'll treated
On the hillsides, irrigation may be necessary but
not in the valleys None has been resored to here,
vet the yield of sheed grain will range between 10
and 100 bushels per acre. And this no solitary
instance. Back of Oakland, across the Bay from
San FranciicO, Mr.. Hobart, a good farmer from
Massachusetts,, showed me acres of heavy Corn
which he planted last May, after the rains had
ceased and the dry season fairly set TO- since which
no hoe nor plow had been put into the field; yet
the soil remains light and porous, while there are
very few weeds. Not one drop of water has been
applied to this farm; yet here are not only Corn,
but Potatoes, Beets, &C., with any number OF
young fruit trees, all green and thriving, by virtue
of subsoiling and repeated plowings last Spring.
The ground (sward) vas broken up early in the
Winter, and cross plowed whenever weeds showed
their heads, until planting time and this discipline,
aided by the droutb has prevented their starting
during the Summer. Such thorough preparation
for a crop costs something; but, this once made,
the crop needs here only to be planted and bar
vested. Such farming pays.
The Fig tree grows in these valleys side By side
with the Apple; ripe figs are now gathered daily
from nearly oil the old Mexican gardens The
Olive grows finely in Southern California, and