Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-07-30

them within i've minutes walk Of
Montgomery Street.
California regarded the new COutin-
entail line with Crest Expectations.
She discounted the future. Investments
in real estate have diverted so much
capital from its usual channels, that
n hears complaints Of hard times
aud scarcity of n A San Fran
cisco building site, which sold last
March for $4,000, now commands $780,
900. The best business lots-along
Montgomery and California streets
are 137 feet deep, and range ia value
from SI,O00to $4,000 (gold) per foot.
Wild lands in remote counties can still
be bought for Stand g per acre nearer
markets, they command from 50 to So
Ranches There are no farms in CalIfOK-
nIa-av5rythTng is ranch) half a mile
outside the City of Sacramento and
an acre. In one of the best districts,
ten or fifteen miles south Of san Fran
cisco, d. o. Mills has an estate Of 1000
acres. Though il is not distiucefTgly q
diary farm be keeps 400 milch COWS.
A railway track, taking his products
to market runs into his barn. Tne
large, highly Improved ranches in that
region are held at from $3.50 to $500 per
acre. Farming in California has been
wonderfully lucrative. Hundreds of
thousands OF acres are EatGQ al u2ursS
which would frlguten an Eastern man,
but upon which wOOl-groWing alone
has returned q clear profit of three per
cent. a month tOr several years. The
same is ~measurabIy true of other agTi-
cultural interests.
Small farms grow in favor but the
old spanish system has left many
large land hoIdeF>e To belittle immense
tracts is q general ~sfeetaiion, an odd
out-crupplng of 1oCtt Aumor. The
Californian Invites an Eastern visitor :
"Come down to San Mataeo and spend
a week with me-" "Have you aFanch
there 20 eyes, "A little place." HWhat
do you call a litue place ?" well, 29y-
600 acres"-or 80, 900, or 10000, as the
case may be. Everybody means to
have q little place. The other evening
I met Gen. Beale, known as an old
army officer, who led one of the Gov
eminent explorations for a Pacific
Railroad. He resides in the South, be-
low Los Angeles, though his Summer
home is in Pblladefphia. "Have you
little place. TOO ?3 I asked. Eyes,
225, 600 acres On nay home ranch, and
$4,000 more ia Northern California 81
That "-homsranch~ il it were a square
tract, would be-19 miles across. 1t IS
one-third as large as the State of Rhode
Island. There are OtheEmen who own
$4,000 acres apiece. Beale dispens9s
sonaeihinp Of old BarOnfal hospitality.
EVGENE WY a NHGA1OAAAL0 ~ -
and bed without money and without
price. Some nights, 80 travellers are
bhere entertained.
There was a prevalent impressson
shat the moment the last rail was laid
Immigrants and spectators with pock-
cts full of money would pour into Cali
fornia to buy land. As yet, no such
movement has begun, and d~isappoint-
ment is felt. Still, though city lots
improved farms, and Wild lands have
advanced from hundred TO nVt
per cent within Inc last 1--WE
years, the new values bold their OWE
firmly. And a people cannot be very
'shard up" whose smallest coin is ter
cents, and who counEthat as tWelve ano
a half to ave inconvenience in making
change. The silver dime heretakes tn;
old Southern and Western name of"thC
btt," sud the value of the ancient
"nInepsncs'2 Of New England and shil-
ling of New York Eight bits pass
for a dollar. The morning newspaper
costs a bit nothing sells for less nc
smaller coin is ever see change is
very loosely computed. Competition
has reduced the cost of telegraphinG
between Sacramento and San Francis
co from ''Gwo bits" 20 hfteep sents. Ii
sending dispatches from the S9eramen-
to office, when 1 gave the clerk TIVE
dimes he kept them both without com
ment ; when I gave him only one h'
made no complaint.
The hostess, at a house where I dinec
the other day, came to California wheI
a mere child. She remembers absolute
" nothing of her old home. Do yOJ
really use pennies in the States ?" sh'
asked. Yes" 'rThey are made o
copper, are they not 2' Eyes" "HavI
you any greenbacks withyou ?" Ihavi
never seen but one, and L have forgot
ten low that looked" succeeded il
fishing up from the bottom of a poke
one crumpled twenty-five cent note Q
our postal currency. b turned j
over and over with keen curiosity. 81
seems very strange to me that thi
should be money, she said. 1t don
look like money" "What does it loo
like ~ "VYell (hesitatingly, and wit
the utmost sincerity "t-looks-lik
a label for an oyster can ~
A. d. R.