The hydraulic press., 1860-05-05

CHANCE FOR A FORTUNE.

That is what everybody in California is
looking for, but few there are who prosecute
the search in legitimate way. The major
ity seek the metallic representative of wealth.
They follow the painful and precarious occu-
patton of mining, melted and sustained by
the hope of finding fortune in mass, as it
were, and thereafter purchasing that impos-
sible thing, happiness in Incidence. Cush-
ions of ease arc in the perspective of every
gold hunters cheating visions. Wealth in
the cohcrete is what he is after, and such
abstractions as manufacturing articles Of
| use and raising from the soil the food staples
of man, are ignored as foreign to the grand
object. The same amount of toll that nine
tenths of our miners waste in the diggings,
if applied to any Legitimate pursuit and Sec
onded by economy, would make them inde-
pendent. But the day has not yet come
when they can see this, and consequently
the hint I'VE are going to drop will gain no
attention from them. Somewhere, however,
wehope'is sensible fellow upon whose mind
it may fall like seed and gerfhihats into
fruitful purpose. All this word pother is
simply Introductory to this question: Why
does not some enterprising person establish
a dairy in this vicinity? Here is large
population, consuming an immense Quantity
of butter and cheese, nearly all of which is
either imported or brought from the lower
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country, when it might better be raised at
home, saving us the necessity of depressing
our stomachs with indigestible rancidity,
1t has been urged that the mountains are
not adapted to the profitable raising of dairy
products, but there is no proof of this, while
it is known there are several noun tain dali
ries of rare excellence which have proved
remunerative, and will hereafter be more so.
Good fresh butter will always command
the close of summer is not serious objec-
| tien, because good feed for cows can be in
sured by sowing the slopes irrigated by min
ing bitches with clover, alfalfa or aharea,
and raising quantities Of carrots and sugar.
beets, which yield at the rate of from twenty
to fifty tons per acre. Land for this purpose
can be obtained in abundance for the mere
fencing free from the terrible uncertainties
of Spanish grants, and admirably adapted
to adj kinds of fruit culture, which could be
profitably pursued in connection with the
dairy business. Let some one who is salts
fed to make home in these glorious hills,
where the climate is ever balmy, where fow-
ers bloom every month in the year, and man
and beast attain alike the highest degree eff
health and physical developaent--we say,
let some one thus satisfied act upon our hint
at some point adjoining each popolous MIN
ing center, and prosperity and happiness
will surely flow to him. But let him be GER
tain to make the experiment with good stock.
Poor COWS are profitable nowhere. Fer the
| mountains either a pure or mixed breed of
Devonshire cows is considered the best, and
as pure stock of this breed can now be pro-
cured in the State the dairyman should not
or fer the purpose of crossing. The advan-
tages of the Devons are thus enumerated by
an exchange:
They are very small -boned and are re-
niarkabie for their docility and gentleness.
They win live and thrive on scanty fare, and
keep fat in pastures where the Durhams and
Ayrshires would pine and starve. The milk
of the cows is of the richest quality, though
not so large in Quantity as that of other
breeds; but from a given pasture more but
ter can be obtained, of a fine quality, if the
Devon cows feed in it than if it is assigned
to any other stock.
So, though Devon beef is smaller than
many other kinds, yet the same amount of
food, if fed out to Devons will give more fine
fat beef than if fed to any other breeds of
neat cattle. Hence it is that for simple profit
the Devons are regarded as ahead of any
others. Though small they are still very
handsonie-have fine, clean limbs-are Of a
deep beautiful color, and are as mild and
docile as lambs For a family that desires
single COW to be a pet about the barn and
yard, and to yield a good supply of milk for
family uses, we should suppose that Devon
was the thing needed.
At Yreka, says .he Journal, whoever does
not own an interest in quartz lead is ex-
aCtly nobody, and is liable to be treated with
silent contempt by his friends and perhaps
snubbed by the ladies. Observing this, (you
can say we speak from experience il you
wish,) we went out last week and found a
lead of our own since which time we have
had invitations to three parties, and six oyster
suppers. On one occasion man with a
bulkhead of immaculate whiteness around
his neck, actually ran across the street to.
shake hands with us.-Note to the rsacier.-
We can't find the color in the specimens we
| brought in, and would not swear that we
found lead at ALL but it is all the same so
long as we can make the good people believe
that it is all right, or will be when our mill