Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-11-10
rHr paospHoglo OF oAIuoaN1A.

THE pRospzcYS OF CALIFORNIA.
1t seems hardly possible that twenty
wears ago CaliHHia a comparatively
an unknown l1nyy, and that since that
time not only have hundreds of thou
sands focked to it for gold, but that its
wealth as an agricultural country should
cause it to be full of attraction for even
a larger portion of the community.
With its excellent climate, the Pacific
Railroad constructed across it, and its
fertile soil, California is INT Of the most
promising countries in the world.
Farmers who went there in the early
DAVIS of the State looked forward to
gaining enough by toiling in the gold
fields to compensate them, and after q
few years they hoped to retire with
wealth sufficient to repay their e%xsrtions.
But recently, agricultural labor has
proved in many cases so much more re-
m~unerstive, that many End the crops
more to be depended upon than the pro-
duct Of the mines, and wheat, barley
and corn more valuable than gold. In
1867, for instance, eight millions Of
bushels of wheat, exported, brought
thirteen millions Of dollars in cash.
There were besides seven millions OF
bushels for homo supply. This, with
nine million pounds of wool and two
million bushels of potatoes, were not a
bad yield for a young State like Califor-
mia. The mildness Of the winter also
renders stock raising easy and profit
able. Twenty-Five millions of vines
show that grape raising is quite as lu-
crative. The vines are healthy, and the
wine makers pay seventy-6ve cents for
a hundred pounds of grapes. From
them, in 1867, four million gallons Of
wine and four hundred thousand gallons
of brandy were made, and while there
is full demand for all than q be
supplied, the use Of the vine
products of foreign countries is super
seeded. The produce of 1853, from min
ing alone, was sixty millions Of dollars,
while in 1867, only twenty-five millions
was the amount Of gold yielded /; but
this falling of has been far more than
made up by the increase in agricultural
produce. Rice, cotton, tobacco and
silk are among the articles the culture
of which has commenced, and there is
no limit to their production. With a
territory seven hundred miles long and
two hundred and fifty miles broad,
forming & State of about q hundred and
sixty thousand square miles, and hay
ing three times as much arabic land as
the whole of Great Britain and Ireland,
and nearly as much as the whole terri
tory of France, California is sure to at
tract a large agricultural population.
All kinds of fruit and vegetables can be
raised, and from twenty-five to eighty
bushels Of wheat per acre is the yield
of enclosed fields.
The same nine degrees Of latitude
which on the Atlantic shore stretch
from Plymouth Rock to Charleston, are
in California open to the emigrant, and
in many places for a small cost the land
may be his forever. In the southern
counties roses bloom in the valleys
every month in the year; grapes,
oranges, figs and olives grow in luxu-
rance, and all kinds of agricultural
products are easily raised. There is no
injurious competition, but roc enough
for a population Of millions Of inhaoi-
tants without crowding, and the diff
Guilty in tho coun try districts is to OBJ
tain ueighbors sufficiently near to
mako companions of. In a gen.
GRAFTON or two California will be
looked upon as the garden Of the
world, and no limit to her prosperity
can be conceived. Already her manu-
features are estimated at thirty millions
Of dollars per aunum, and their amount
is constantly increasing. This new
State is the growth Of the present age,
and of it we have reason to be proud.
In making rapid and substantial pro-
gress, and securing a swift and easy
transition from o mere collection OF
rowing adventures to an orderly and
permanent population, the people Of
California have done wonders. They
may well be pardoned for feeling pride
in what they have already accomplished,
and for looking forward to a bright fu-
ture.
Tho wheat crop of the harvest just
closed is estimated at 10000, 900 bush
els, while the barley, oats, hay, pota-
toes, vegetables, corn, fruits and grapes
present an immense estimate, such as
the world never saw before in a new
and just developing country. Ut may,
perhaps, be considered q fancy idea,
but the late earthquake there may be
construed into q roaring laugh Of
mother earth at the immense growth of
the Golden State. Folks, however, did
not exactly construe the matter in that
way).
ORusBY CoUNTY.-The Appeal Of this