Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-09-14
California and jts cvons

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Inc phenomena of California are indeed
numerous, and sometime nsrrutabl, Fam"
splendid crop OF corn, sixty bushels tn III.
acre, and hundreds Of acre, mt that whnb h,s
reached maturity without either irrIratinn ~,
rain and yet this may hc seen on Colon.i
ihonas n. Sc"tt's great rancho at lolouia. in
the county Of santa Barbara T., lionel Ssutti is
the owner o! other plantations equally yalu,-
pie. tie purchased this property eight wears
ago, ana placed 1t in the hands of A c0mp,trut
agent IL Is now in most prosperous cond. |
tion. iiis warehouses; are filled with barley, !
anu tmrratlon Is already tending htherward. !
lhere are 10000 acres in thiH ,invlp tract with
frontage on the sea, aud houudpd nv th,.
river Santa Clara on the north hi, arte,iau
well Is one hundred and forty fee, in depth,
throws five hundred gallon 4 minute. and
rises twenty four feet above the ripe 1t is
only fort. miles from the beautiful, town of
santa barbara. ia tooha' was part of a
grant Of Mexico to her soldier Tor faithful
services. anu the name j. the one they gave it,
TO the farmers and fruit grower OF Pennsy,-
,anla and the Middle States the farmers ana
lruit growers OF California present stranC,.
contrast. 1hnk OF strawberries all the year
round, as large and luscious as those that com.
like angels, visits to Hs In Philadelphia wheat
and barley by millions of bushels, grown and
gathered without rain nr fear or want Of rain
orange, ripe IN August and December: Eng
) llNh wainntS ana almonds, producing immense
v.
all requiring little care and expense in their
cultivation. a visit to the markets of San
Francisco is far more interesting than visit
5 I" the markets OF Philadelphia Paris, or liruS
! sei-. Flowers of every color and structure and
of the richest aroma, every month OF the year
peaches rs large rs our apples; grapes in Glu,
ttrs a. large as our cabbages, ripe figs an'
: pOmrgranate- and vegetables of every nam,
and quality in boundl-ss protu,ion, and =,
large that If were to describe their weigh
q, ami size You would not believe ne.
y The wheat crop of California is another
" PHENOMENON. Its extent this year may h,
:. gathered from the following data: In Sal
, Joaquin Valley, south of l.athrOp and eros
~ sing the Central Pacific Railroad, grain il
q 1872: East side or river, average twenty mile
y. wide, fifty miles long 1000 square miles q
II fifteen bushels per acre 5lo, 600 square acres
=. o,Goo,o 600 bushels at sixty pounds, ,oo
", pounds, or 2sS,0o0 tons. West side, 20
- square miles, 100000 ucres, at twenty-tiv
+, hushels-s,o 200 bushels at sixty pound,
~ 4s0, ,0oo, 900 pounds or "io, 600 tons aggregate
i. II, 7,6eO.ooo bushels, or 52S,0oO tons. Put IT,
tons on II ear, twenty cars IN train fcl
y. trains y day-IG0 days to move it, When 9
tide water load four ships of l.0OO tons eacl
10 seventy two days to load it for foreign mai
II It, not two-thir6S Of the product of III
II state. Total, 81 s00O00 bushel7 And hri
IN mind that there has been no rain OH tn
coast since May last Mr. liaac Frielandr
an 1919 pioneer, who commands the whe
trade, has countless heet OF vessels in whit
to carry This product to Europe, where i;
SIR preferred to all others, and il advertising Il
M more. The value of the grain product "
eventually rival that of gold and SILVER,
least till the certain added opulence
Arizona and New Mexico is utilized when Il
A Texas and Pacific Railroad is finished to ;;
I'd. Diego. Please remember that when Caliie
- mia WAS purchased twenty-four years az
yas grain was imported from Valparaiso \
-. body thought OF it as chief staple Of wtalt
~, Gold was the god Of universal idolauy
w We came here in what is called the Il
"' season and certainly no travellers ever had
ew more dusty welcome. The desert was "
rye waste oi sterlity, and when we entered Ca
'nd tornia the landscape Was as brown and a
ser a. if nothing ever grew upon it, But liza
ull since seen gardens and plantations hloonit
US with the loyelir>t flowers and weighed do
rv with iraii,, ripe aud rotting for want n'
ian, market. irrigation is the Magician II
MO makes these burnt regions rr,dnre like
~, lands of the Nile
~, ~ The lack of rain in summer u the gieat III
Me-" .of California lie who can water his ia
ere can grow ANYTHING at this season. Winte
nee the time for rain and for yrrdure, and fl
February to June all nature is clad in gre
from San Francisco to San Diego, and II
npd the mountains to the ocean.