New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-15

vAoIrERO LIFE-A GREAT STOCK OWNER
..o,, OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIIR TRlBUNBl
v,sAIrA. Tulare County, March 2O.-From
uerced where the railroad company are building avery
largo hotel TO accommodated the No semite uaNet
which here branches of for the famous valley hao .no
curiosity TO 20 down to the San Joaquin River
rar,ad peope are at work wanted to see no" Cnin"
men 40 "a roadbuilers. There are about q"
er,ploved in Grading and laying track ana perhaps 0
White men, The engineer In charge Mr.. GURUS 'ou %
that the Chinese make. on the whole the pes'
ers in the world. The contractor Mr. sToDuge' oiu NV
that they learn all parts of the Work very W." -
s.g them empoyed on every kind Of work Ihey 10 not
a-t egbt or strike; they do gamble II Is not pre-
ted and n Is always said OF them that they are very
ceanlv In their habits II is the custom among 'heu'
after they have had their suppers every evening" 10
hattie themselves all over not in the stream here Wmch
=, too cold but with the help OF small tubs douot
the white aborers do as much. These Chinese receive
s er month Of 26 working days, and for this they furn
tsh an their own supplies Of food, tents cooking utensils
A lut the contractor pays the cooks. They work In
ennes Of from u TO 20 men, who form mess ana the
head man of the gang receives the wages OF ALL ana oil
vides the money among them. The Chinaman' except
when be is In gala dress, is dngy looking creature ne
is sail 10 be parsmOnious; and to an American MS
quarters always look shabby one gets the laea mere
fore that he lives poorly ana should have said that
,ork and rice probaby made up their bill OF rare mere
on the plains II will. perhaps, surprise you as u ana
me- 10 find mat they have greater variety OF toOd thah
their white neehbOr They buy their supplies at store
kent In several cars the end Of the track ana TINS
shop was great curiosity TO Here list of the food
kent and sold there to the Chinese wOrkmen Dried oysters
dried cutensh dried fish, sweet rice, crackers, dried
bamboo sprouts sailed cabbage Chinese sugar twhlch
tasted to me very much like sorghum sugai) four Khus
Of dried fruits five kinds Of desiccated vegetables YER
uiceIi dried sea weed Chinese bacon, cut up into small
outlets dried meat Of the abeOna she'll pea nut OIL dried
mushrooms tea and rice. They buy also pork OF the
butcher and on holidays they eat poultry. compare
this bill of fare with the beef BEANS bread and butter
and potaoe Of the white abOrers and you will see that
John has a much greater variety OF food
THE oFFENsE OF FENCES.
Atts railroad store they sold also pipes bowls, chop
sticks large shallow. castirOn bowls for cooking nce
lamps JOSS paper Chinese writing paper, pencils, and
India ink Chinese shoes, and clothing imported ready
m de from China Also, scales-for the Chinaman is
particular and reweigh everything he buys as soon as
he gets to camp. Finally, there was Chinese tobacco
Tho desccaed vegetables Of excellent quality and
dried evidently, by process good as the best in use
with US The cost of these supplies imported from
China was surprisingly low, and the contractor told me
that the Chinese aborers about $3 per month,
and where they do not gamble, do lay by as much as
that. when YOU Bear Creek, near MERGED, you
come AT once into a and thnly settled country IN
stead Of wheat you cattle and sheep and not only
these but herds Of antelope feeding cOntentedy among
the cattle Three antelopcs with the handcar
ON which made part Of my journey 20 the San Joaquin
River: and kept up with for nearly two miles, at so
short distance that if there had been rifle at hand we
should have dned antelope steak which Is very good
meat Below Bear Creek, you enter Fresno County.
which has through the bitter and INSCRIPTIONS oppos-
ton Of the catueowners fence law, and suffers great
injury from it, The question Of fence or no fence
san exciting in this state Of the great, and
all the little cae-owners, meanly all their influence
% maintain "a law under which the farmers are obliged
10 fence their farms. In MERGED County, in many
Others this law has been repealed and the result is an
enormous saving 20 the farmers, who build no fences
IN Fresno a man must pay for fencing 100 acres
than the land him, else see his crop eaten up by
othorman cattle The people in what is called
tho Alabama Settlement" the San Joaquin, have
actually 90 hire vaqueros at their expense 10 keep
other peoples cattle ont Of their wheat fields They
cannot afford fence their farms. The =" no fence
regulation cannot be much longer put off, and the
sensible cattleOwners are already setting their houses
order Before y months, told the whole State
Will have fence law, and farmers who come here
will be relieved from one Of the and most expen-
. slyc worries OF country life, the care Of fences.
AHALFNuLuoS ACRE FARMER
At the Alabama Settlement number OF Southern
families have bought large and fine tract Ofland, much
o. which they have put into wheat Their crops look
well and believe they well pleased with their Oca-
ton finding the country healthy the soil rch and their
prospects this year good They here in the midst
~ the great drOuth, and lost two crops but they had
means 70 support themselves, and will do well. II
struck me that they had made the common mistake Of
getting too much land; and believe those farmers
correct who assert that in this valley will make more
money on leo OF 200 acres than 1900 5000 But
everybody must suppose find out such things for him
colt Trees have made fine growth in the Alabama
settlement; the orange, was told, grows thereof
II does not yet bear-and no doubt the olive,
walnut. and perhaps the almond would do well with
irrigation From the end of the track the Vsalia stage
rJute leads Frebaughs ferry, and at that point
remained % something OF life quite different from
that the MERGED side Of the san Joaquin. On one
side Of the river wheat fields; the other you find
only cattle. Miller Lux own 40 miles OF land on the
western side Of the san Joaquin; and other persons
almost equally great tracts. II is said that Mr..
ticr the pOssessOr Of half million OF in this
state he has nearly 100000 cattle; and being shrewd
business man. he is fencing in his great estate, to
reserve it for his own cattle. He is rapacious
Tor land; and is said TO have determined that he
will until he drive his cattle his
land from Los Angeles TO the Sacramento. Two men in
san Francisco hun sitting somewhere, lost in
thought and one asked wonder what Miller is plan.
ming now T. The other replied, " he is making little
plan 20 buy the rest Of the State" Miller Lux have
about l25 miles OF fence built and will build 100 miles
this year. Some other great land owners have
Yearly much Fencing them from $500 $3.50 per
mile. OF course these not the men who oppose
"n0 fence" law.
A PLEASANT EVENING.
AtFrcbaughs fell al from California into Texas
Who drives wild cattle must himself be wild suppose
found myself in the evening 10 large rOOm used
store and shop where eighteen twenty vaqueros
rate-herds sat about an open fire, and smoked, and
chcwed and swore and spat with great gravity and de-
cofum. Some were Americans from Missouri for Tex
u-thc persons called Pixies" in this state some were
mexicans. who come in with jingng spurs and with
riding made Of calf skin with the hair left on
which gave them quite startling and disgusting satyr-
Ike look There Is nothing picturesque about the Pike