The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1859-10-20
California Fruit,

Last week we gave some extracts from one Of
nr' Greeley's California letters, showing the
great capabilities Of that State for fruit growing
a subsequent letter from Mr.. Greeley, describ.
ing another portion of the State MarysvilIa
and It's surroundings, gives additional facts of
interest;
visited this morning, in the suburbs, oar.
cehs, Vineyards, orchards, ST rarely egnaind
fulIoiness. The orchard of Mr.. Brigrs. for
oAshlpie' covers 100 acres, all in young fruit.
probably one-hafp peaches. He has had a snuad
u 'nif'y Or forty men picking and boxing peach.
es Ior }he last month. yet his fruit by the cart.
ioad npens and rots ungathered. The WAGONS
WINCH convey it to the Mines have their regular
statloas and relays of horses like mail-staoos
ana are thus pulled sixty miles up rough noun.
'alh passes, per day, where twenty FIVE miles
would be he2Yy days work for any team
Du1 ne Is not sending to the Mines only. bnt
oy steamboat to Sacramento and San Francisco
as Well His sales last year. am told, amoun.
Yea 10 $SJ,Uu0; his net income was not less
IMAM S4o,C0J. And this was realized mainly
from Peaches, Apaeots and Nectarines his
Apples and Pears have barely begun to hear
ms Cherries will yield their first crop next wear
lhere are fcourse heavier frult-growers in Ca |.
ltornia than Mr.. Briggs, but he nav be taken
as fair sample of the class Their sales will
DOUBTLESS be made flower and still lower prices.
cney are now little higher than those realized
Tor similar fruit grown in New Jersey; they
We're once many times higher than now; but,
though their prices steadily decrease, their in
comes do not, because their harveSts continued
TO be augmented by at least twenty-five Der
cent, per annum
. Let ne give one other instance of successful
frult-growing in another district: Mr.. Fallon,
me inc. mayor CT San Jose has fine garden, in
| "hlch are some ten or twelve Old pear trees
relics of The Spanish era snd of the Jesuit Mia.
sions. The trees being thiifty but the fruit in
different, Mr.: Z. had chem pretty thoron0bIv
grated with the Baitiets variety, and the second
year thereafter gathered from one tree one thou
SAND pounds OF Bartlett Pears, which he sold
Tor ~ u, or twenty GEMS per pound. The 9th,
er trees similarly troated bore him six to seven
hundred pounds each Of that large, delici Gus
fr0lt, which he gold at the same price And
every year snce, the2e trees have borne large
yields OF these capital pears. l dare not hone
TOR equal success in the East but surely the ak.
peelent OF grating fine, large varieties on our
now worthless Pears, at the same time bounte-
ouSly enrlching The soil beneath them ought to
be more generally adopted than it has yet been.
ne tlg-treo grows in these valleys side by
side with the apple; npa figs are now gather
ca daily from nearly all the old Mexican gar
dens. The Olive grows finely in Southern Cal
itornia, and believe the Orange and Lemon as
well. Bat the grape bids fair to become sta
pie throughout he State Almost every farmer
who feels sure Of his foothold on the land he
co,tvates either has his vineyard already plan
ted, or IS preparing to plant one, while most OF
those who have planted are extending from wear.
have looked through many pf these whey ards
without finding one that is not thrifty--one that
# two years planted, is f4ot now loaded with
fruit The profnsion and weight of the clusters
IS marvellous TO the fresh behollcr l will not
attempt TO give figures; but it is my deliberate
, Judgment that Grapes may be grown here as
ei'eaP rs rTfivat or corn. pound for pound, and
that Wine viii ultimately be made here at a
cost per gallonn exceeding that of Whisky in
illinois or Ohio. Wine will doubtless consti-
tute heavy export of California within a very
lew years.