The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1873-07-17
IDAHO WORLD.
a CALIFORNIAN ABROAD.
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A Californian of 40 recently arrived
in St. Louis. when q reporter Of the
Republican proceeded to interview
him. We clip the following portion Of
the reporters account:
Reporter Some one was saying thai
there were exceedingly large trees in
the Yosemite Valley and other portions
of the Golden State. Is that the case
! Here the old Californian began te
manifest that peculiar weakness that be
longs to the people of this coast. The
eye that ell the time had been bright be-
came brighter, the tongue seemed to
receive fresh inspiration at the very
mention Of Yosemite, the wonder and
admiration of the new world. He cast
;, q. look of supreme disgust at the re-
porter for referring to those monarchs
of the forest in such frivolous man
ner, and continued:
Oh, HI! stranger. Haven't you
ever seen even a picture of them trees1
You don't know what you have missed
A man. has never seen anything till he
has seen California. Everything is big
in that country. Turnips grow ex'
tremely large. Why, young man, I've
seen fields of turnips in the San Joa-
quin Valley that looked like young for
.ests. It takes two men, and strong
men, too, to load one of them into a
wagon. Pumpkins grow very large in
California. A field Of pumpkins in Cal
ifornia looks like nestof young noun
tains. Eastern men can't tell a Cali
fornia pumpkin. They don't know what
it is. They grow very. fast. too, Cali
fornia pumpkins. The shells are often
used for sheds by tho ranchers. Straw
berries grow large in California. One
good-sized Napa Valley strawberry will
last a common family week. They
generally roll them into the market. l
can't begin to tell you about the Won
derfnl productiveness Of that region.
The big trees are So large that it takes
agood horse week to get round them.
They are mostly in the valley, and they
are so high that the tops are lost in the
clouds. One of them covers an acre.
They belong to the redwood species, the
branches being wide-spreading, and the
roots extend in some instances twenty
& five miles. California peanuts are taken
for sweet potatoes by Eastern travellers.
Some of them weigh three pounds. Mus
quitoes are large, too. They flourish in
the Sacramento Valley. have often
seen them attack band of mules and
kill half,dozen of them.
R.-A musquito kill mule? Impos-
sible.
Yes, and they will cat him up at one
meal. / have often seen them devour
a mule or an OK, and then sit on the car
cass and pick their teeth with the ribs
of the animal. Mosquitoes are very
large indeed in California. California
oysters grow also extremely. Your lit.
tie oysters here are nowhere in COM
parison. It takes a steam engine to
raise. one from the bed. They are cart
ed singly into San Francisco on trucks.
They are cut into slices and sold by the
pound. Our girls grow very large and
rapidly. A young girl born in Sonoma
last week weighs fifty pounds now
That's the way it goes in California.
The only drawback we have in Califor-
MIA is earthquake shocks and Chinese
cheap labor They are both bad.