Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-30
The Exploration OF Lower California.
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The Exploration OF Lower California.
AN EXPEDITION AND ITS EXPERIENCE.
A curious little journal, about twelve
inches by SIX in size, and imperfectly
printed one page in English and the next
in Spanish-comes to us by the last Cali.
fornla mail. 1T is entitled the Lower Cali-
iornian; and liz published at Magdalena
Bay. The issue for October 18th contains
the following synopsis:
1.-The expedition fitted out for the exam
nation and colonization of the lands of
the Lower California Company, which
sailed for San Francisco on August 1, pro-
ceeded to the bay of Todos Santos, now
known as Port Juarez, and after examln-
ing the harbor and the valuable adjacent
lands of San Antonio, sailed for Cape Col
nett, where surveys were made Of some of
the fertile valleys upon and near Colnett
Bay. .... ..-.--z
''Thence to the locked bay of San
Quentin, with it's valuable salt works, pro-
ducing now one thousand tons of the
finest salt of the Pacific coast, and capa-
BILE, with some outlay, o. producing five to
ten thousand tons.
'tThence to the rosdstead of Play Maria
the guano island of Eide. the Clio de Lie
bre, or Scammon's Lagoon, whence can
the Pacific coast-past Cerros Island and
its lofty peaks, rich in minerals, to the
quiet harbor of San Bartholomew, known
to whalers as Turtle Bay. Thence,
after short sojourn, to the superb bay of
MagdAlena, where, finding every requi-
site for great commercial port and
city-a spacious and accessible harbor,
deep water and sheltered anchor
age, oven five hundred miles of inland
steamboat navigation, draining the most
fertile lands climate unequalled in the
world, every mock and inlet swarming with
delicious fish and turtles, q district OF
country capable of sustaining, with it's ad-
iacent mineral and other sources, popu-
lation of two or three millions of people,
it is determined to commence the nucleus
of the colonization of the southern por.
| ton of the vast properties of the com
pany.
| Materials, tools, lumber, and ali things
necessary, are soon landed and roads Gu;
through the dense underground covering
the sandy hills, which for hundred miles
fringe the bay, and extend back from five
to six miles to the plains or prairie.
"These verdart plains sweep back tC
the Slerras some fifty to seventy five miles
| gently rising, and run nearly parallel with
dred or three hundred miles, fiat as bill
lard table and covered with fine swee
grass Over them troop herds of wild cat
tie, horses, deer and antelope.
son the edge of this plain it is deemed
best to commence boring artesian wells
and socn Yankee energy has houses built
a store, a school house for the natives ant
printing Office, deryicks rear their awk
ward frames, and ere long the squeaking
pulleys and grinding augers tell the aston
ished native that the first well of Lowe
California is being bored
'sThe first fortnight no human being i
seen, then come in from long distances til
people of the country with horses, mule
and COWS aud beef for sale, and welcom
as brothers the Americans.
sFrom the bay a sweep of the sein
gives boat load of delicious fish-mul
let, Spanish mackerel, perch, sardines, &c
Another cast. and half dozen green tur
ties of much succulency are gathered in
Then Nimrod Adams packs in couple @
antelopes, and the jolly captain bring
home Chinaman load of fat curLew from
the fresh water ponds of the Llanos- 'for
ty-fye, with two barrels, my boy.
Meanwhile surveys go on and maps ar
made by the company's able engineer o
farms and village sites, and the projecte,
city OF 'Cortez'-naned after the grea
conqueror of Mexico and discoverer, il
1884, of Lower California.
''On the opposite side of the great ba
the officers of the flagship Ossippee max
scientific surveys and verifcations of Mar
o. War Cove, which, with its sheltered
anchorage, fine holding ground, dry docl
and coalipg advantages, easy capability 70
impregnable defence, and perfect accessi
bility under steam and sail. will probabl
be the principal rendezvous of the vessel
of the United States, and will give to tn
United States the absolute control of The
Pacific ocean.
"Gardens are also made. Spading tn
virgil soil and planting every vegetable
aud flower of temperate and torrid zone
Corn, two weeks from planting, is a foo
high, and soon the roasting ears will u,
ready.
'tAnd SO all work with high baart anC
courage, confident of the immediate futur,
and thankful to God for being permitte,
by Him to be the instruments to inaugur
ate new era of intelligence, energy an,
prosperity In this rich and beautiful
country, so long crushed by misrule an,
abandoned to Ignorance and sloth"