The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-02-17
Some Facts 4AOOut California.

news furnished to Baltimore readers by the
young Californian employed on the Balti.
more Sun:
San Francisco. California, has 743 billiard
rooms, all of which are doing lively bust
ness. Ono has bar which cost two hun.
drcd thousand dollars, and which is inIaid
with gold and moss. .agates. Some bars take
In as high as three thousand dollars day.
Last year, there grew in Sonoma county.
California, q beet which covered a whole
block. One Of its leaves made tent for an
cmigrant family, and lasted them all the
fall, and the Chicago spcculator, who built
! the Beet Sugar Factory alongside of it, has
undcrsold the market twice, and isn't out Of
raw material yet.
In California, such is the climate, that
! they have strawberries all the year round.
The strawberries attain an unusual size:
1t is not uncommon for an ordinary family
to subs,st on one for q week. It must not
be supposed that all the varieties are of this
size; some arc much smaller, and it is not
unfrequcnt for healthy man to finish one
at meal.
California last year produced 740 gallons
Of wine 70 the acre i; this year the yield will
be much greater, as the grapes thrown away
during the Summer have all sprouted into
bearing vines. In California the people a.
ways wash themselves in winc-that is those
of them who do wash.
In California the late census shows that
there is unc wou'uu to every 074 uvu. THIS
accounts for the great number of persons
who perish there every day by the pistol.
1t is common for California young ladies 10
wear numerical necklaces Indicating the
number OF their admirers who have been
buried from these causes.
It Isl singular fact that all native born
Californians (hat is the offspring of the
old pioncers), who have reached maturity,
are over seven feet in height. This las
never been accounted for. 1t is generally
ascribed to the climate.
An entcrprising person imported some
three thousand Of the best Chesapeake oys.
tiers last Spring and placed them on an oys.
ter bed near the mouth Of the harbor Of
San Francisco. California aboriginal oys-
ters are very small and bad, and it was dc.
sirable, il possible to procure better arti.
Gle. Immediately upon being placed in the
water they commenced to grow, and have
attained such dimensions that the entrance
to the harbor is closed most cffectnally,
two bad wrecks having already taken place
The work Of removal has been commenced,
the enterprising oyster grower being threat.
encd with a suit by the Harbor Commis:
sioncrs, who also served All injunction On
the oysters. Two tus.boats tow the oys-
ters out to place on the ocean coast where
they have room to attain their full size, the
shell being loosenei from the bottom by
submarine blasts, conducted by Prof. Won
Schmidt, whose experience with Blossom
Rock renders him just tho man for the job.
One of the smaller ones was drawn into
San Francisco by means of rollers and lot
of mules, and was opened on Montgomery
street by powerful electric shock applied
to the oysters tail, which protruded. 1t Is
said by the Bulletin to have been delicious
eating, and the liver when being fried out
yielded two barrels and half of excellent
oil.