Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-09-20

ana vines, along roads bordered with Vales
by farms and orchards rich grains and
fruits we make Cur first night ride mas.
sing Ia the gray morning the prosperous
little town of Red Bluffs, which is note
worthy as the head of navigation on the
Sacramento river-some 800 miles from
Its mouth---and so central point of COM
merce for all northern California and
southern Oregon, and as the present home
of the widow and daughters of the i'm
mortal John Brown. They struggled in
here weary and poor, from their overland
journey, but found most hospitable greet
ing from the citizens and have secured
permanent home A subscription among
the Californians generally will give them
soon nice cottage; Mrs. Brown earns
both love and support as successful nurse
and doctor, particularly for children; her
two older daughters are teachers in the pub
lie schools; and the younger one is herself
a pupil.
Now the valley grows narrow, the noun
tains east and west chassez across and in
f among each other. and for the remaining
200 miles of California, and the first 200
of Oregon, we are winding among the
hills and following up and down narrow
valleys, first of tributaries of the Sacra-
mento, and then of minor streams,--Trin-
Iity, Klamath, Rogue and Umpqua,-that
steal their way, among the now scattered
and mingling ranges of coast and Sierra
Nevada, west to the ocean. Shasta and
Yreka arc the two remaining villages Of
Importance in California, with perhaps
1900 inhabitants each Born of rich
placer gold diggings in neighboring val
leys and gulchcs, but bereft of half Of
their former population by the dicovery
of more tempting fields elsewhere, and
the inherent migratory character of gold
seekers, they present sad array of unoc
cupied stores and houses. like, indeed, tc
: nearly every other of the interior mining
3 towns of California. Their second reac
/. tionary stage now seems beginning, how
i. ever; more careful aud intelligent work
= ing of the gold sands and banks proves
: them still proGtble-in some cases richly
a so; the Chinese are coming in to worl
o over the neglected courses. satisfied Will
G smaller returns than the whites and bes
a of all, agriculture, hitherto despised, il
= asserting its legitimate place as the bas
S of all true aud steady prosperity. Th,
IS valleys, though small, are fruitful, ant
IS many of the hillsides arc equally rich fo
It grain and fruit. These hills of northern
k California and southern Oregon SEEM in
If deed, the true home of apple, pear ant
grape, and are sure to have large plac
% in the future fruit-growing and winc-ma
= king prosperity of the Pacific coast.
IS Beyond Shasta, just out of the valley
we stopped to dine at a most inviting ho
A. tel, amid garden and orchard of grea
d fruitfulness, which | found to be 9Th
A. Tower House." and. the proprietor Mr.. L
c. H. Tower, whom you Springfield people G
as Is and 20 years residence will remembe
as prominent armorer, foreman of tb
to Eagle engine company, and a popula
re young man up to lS49, when he cast i
is his fortunes with the first emigration t
A. California. After years of the ups an
o. downs that belong to nearly every expert
IN ence on this coast he has become prospt
d rous, and grown stout, but keeps hi
" Springfield memories green. and is yet
: bachelor. Two of his sisters and broth
N erin. law live upon his place. He owns
If toll road over the mountain, and his ol
|. chard, only five years old, produced las
n year 5000 bushels of peaches, 1900 bush
d els of apples and grapes by the ton, fo
Ia which he finds maket among the miller
II in the mountains around and in the vi
lagos north and south.
n. Along here, individual mountains as
{. sumed a rare majesty; snow peaks wei
IS visible, 10000 and | 900 feet high au
in soon, too, Mount Shasta monarch of tn
" Sierras in northern California, reared il
st lofty crowd of white, conspicuous anon
n, hills of 5000 and 5000 feet, both for il
ar vast fields of snow. it perfect shape, an
t. its hight of l4,400 feet above the SC
er level. We saw it from various point
of and all sides, and everywhere it was trul
V, King of the Mountains, and is entitlo
is to rank among the first dozen mopntal
n. peaks Of the world,
u Jacksonville was the first conspieuo'
he point in Oregon. and showed obvious FIR
re-. cousinship to Ureka and Shasta. b
,at its neighboring gold diggings made bett
he report: many Of the 800 men engage
H. upon them in The county were very Pre- m
in porous, and all were makl5s good wage
III promising quartz mines were also diSc'
ds cred aud ore found everywhere almO
is in these mountain counties OF northe
he California and southern Oregon, gatherl'
sse evidences Of much gold yet uncrushed
he undug, that would still form the oas
ry, with cheaper and more abundant lab
ng and capital, Of large. population and ID
in. nay material growth in this region. Il