The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-05
Japanese in California.
The New Settlement-Japanese Industry

The San Francisco Alta California says:
"The Graynor Ranch, now Adzu Ranch,
just bought by Herr Schnell for the Jap
anese colony, is on the Georgetown Stage
Road, four and half miles from Placer
VILE The land is best adapted to fine silk
and tea, which they cultivate. There aresix
hundred acres under fence, alarge orchard
Of trees seven years old, fifty thousand
bearing vines not needing irrigation,
plenty of grain fields in good crops, a
good brick house well furnished, a we'll
appointed wine house, barn, implements
of husbandry, horses, wagons, COWS, pigs,
fowls, ETC., etc, all for $4,000 Water is
good and abundant for irrigation
cit is the purpose of Herr Schnell to
found q village to be called Wakamatz.
Every family will have cottage and a
garden Tor full supply of vegetables and
for ornament. The japanese are apt at
gardening, and naturally fond of IL and
regulations are unusual with them to en-
force order and neatness. Mulberry trees
and tea plants will beallotted in divisions
to each family, when the plants are ripe
for plucking. Each family will feed its
own worms, spin its own cocoons, and re-
ceiye pay according tolts quality and guam
tity. The raw silk will then be put into
market for export and for home manufac
lures Tea will be made on the same prin-
ciples. The families cultivate, pick the
leaves, deliver at refractory and receive
payment. Thus, the factories can make
uniform quantities for market. Wine max.
ing will follow similar judicious division
of labor where it is practicable. There
will an extensive nursery for the growth
and sale of Japanese trees, such as are not
now to be got in this state-tea plants,
bamboos, wax trees, DC.
"The bamboo, besides its mechanical
uses, will introduce to our tables much.
needed esculent. The young sprouts COM
bine the virtues of the artichoke and the
asparagus They are more marrowey
and delicious than either and in size
each is greater than the whole bunch of
asparagus. It far surpasses our vegeta-
bles in nutriment and IN kindly digestion.
The bamboo will grow large and find it.
self at home in our foothills. When we
learn its multifarious uses we will value
its introduction into our state. The null
berry and tea plants always produce the
finest results in the uplands, where there
is some frost togive winter repose to their
organs of growth. These people are skill
ed In tea making and have the machine
ry for it. California is going to be in
dependent of the outside world in another
important article. Ere long tea of known
purity will form large overland export.
Besides, China oil, that is the cleanest
burner among the oils of commerce, comes
from the tea nut. It is an important
part of the profit of the tea culture. 1t
should be mentioned that highly com
petent native doctor of medicine is attach
ed to the colony. The tree which Yields
both varnish and wax is perfectly adapted
ttoonr foothills. To get the wax the nuts
containing it are smashed and boiled, the
wax separating readily. Varnish is the
circulating fluid of the tree, as turpentine
is of the pine.
"The surrounding land has a good
growth of oak tree, insuring rain fall. It is
designed to raise in these woods the Japa-
nese oak-leaf silk worm. This worm makes
excellent silk and large symmetrical CO.
coons The moth is bright yellow,with large
ornamental wings. The worm is not dom
mesticated and fed by hand. It is allow
ed its own way among the trees of the
j forest |; and the families camp out there