The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-12-15

heliotropes. cllanthuI. pctiwinkle, lobeia,
nasturtiums, znnias. forget. me. nots,
luchslas. SALIVA, hrll,hooks and morning
glores.
Large aud ire rd.ips ae produced
mere The crop ior the State viii reach
more than 20 600 hrN... THE best are
dried ia the sun. the ,mlchu, hoiug first
dipped 10 lyc. IL Is less trout IL than
other sruit, as there are tao preliminary
labors OF parlug aud qnartering as with
apples and peaches, Many tons, not ma.
tur.d, will be lost ,iucc the rains set 10.
There are 40 usury laws in California.
Men cannot plead the baby act" to shield
themselves from the consequences of their
own acts. A contract is a contract all
tho way through, and will be enforced. If
John Jones buys horse uf his neighbor
in Ohio or New York, and agrees to pay
in six months, the law compes MIN to do
it But if be agrees to pay moro than
the legal rate Of interest on the note, the
same statute will not enforce its collcc.
ton. The sacredness OF the contract is
not the same in the case OF an agreed
rate of interest as in the price Of the
horse. Yet everybody Of common sense
knows that Jones is as capable of manag.
ing one kind Of financial transaction as
another. Demagogues for thousand
years have made war on the usance OF
money, because, through all time, they
have been the law.making power. The
chivalry and gentry in early times. Of
thritless, idle habits. oppressed their
tenants always, and were continually
raising money of the Jew bankers on post
orbits or landed property. Consequently
they strove to keep down rates Of inter.
est. Most of our states. in servile imita.
ton Of the English, have made the same
enactments. The effect has been to drive
away enormous amounts of capital, to
seek investments in more liberal and en-.
lightened States, where they do not have
to whip the old boy around the stump in
order to evade bad law. The common.
sense course Of The Pacific States, in this
matter, is appreciated by intelligent men.
1t is one OF the inducements to come
here, Fifty thousand immigrants will
have arrived in 1874, Of whom 10000
are the heads of families. A very low
estimate would be $1,000 each. brought
here. This makes SI0.000,000 in their
hands. to help develope and beautify the
cities and plains OF California. Is it any
wonder the price of land is advancing !?
While have been looking and waiting
and reporting for the COUNTRY GENTLE.
MAN | have seen one ranch Of $4,000
acres bound from five dollars, at which
price it was offered me in May, to twenty.
FIVE dollars per acre to-day. Cause,
projected railway, thought dead, sudden
ly renewed its life, and is building near
the land 1t has been subdivided and
some sold,
"E M. W." on page 7l2, suggests
answers to inquiries relating to this coast,
one Of which is as to 1.-THE chances for
men of small means to live as comforta.
bly, as at the East" Another query
How is it in California with such pests
as mosquitoes, Aeas. flies, ants and the
whole insect tribe ?" will reply to the
last question by stating that Aeas seem to
be Indigenous to the soil, or sand, at Los
Angeles. They actually live in it there,
as have seen. Flies. mosquitoes and
other insects do not seem moro plenty
than at home. Along the bays and riv.
ers mosquitoes are troublesome +; here we
are fortunately exempted from insect
pests, and from fever and ague, and all
ma]arial diseases. To be sure there are
house flies here, but not in swarms, as
they wero in soldiers tents in front OF
Petersburg.
About the chances of coming here, in
reply to bis first question it might be well
10 repeat what has been more than once
laid in these letters. The writer has en-.
iertained grave doubts respecting the
prospects Of some of the thoughtless PEG.
10 rushing here. | am yet of the opin.
ion this is no place for easy going farm.
ere of very limited means. Better take
good cheap lands in the corn belt of the
Mississippi Still there is another side to
be viewed. The State is as large as New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Ohio combinad. Its capabilities to fur.
nish employment in agricultural and min.
ing pursuits are sufficient for ten times
the population. Whole mountain ranges
known to contain the precious metals in
paying quantites,if properly worked with
labor.saving machinery, are comparative.
y neglected, In sight Of where we write
twenty.eight miles distant, is St. Helena,
full Of silver, cinnabar copper and chrome
iron. The Calistoga works there, just
beginning, are grinding the rocks to pow.
der and smelling tho products. They
are turning out q thousand dollar silver
bar every twenty. -four hours. Nobody
seems to think, or care. much about such
gains. They remember only the Aush
times Of 40, when strikes of $50 to 800
a day were made in placer mining. by
working the sands of river bars, and pick.
ing up loose Jumps of gold. There is
wealth enough in these mountains to pay
handsomely for the labor of u thousand
years, But except in rare instances, no
fortune will be made rapidly. To the
hardy and enterprising, not afraid Of la
bor those rare determined men who make
a way wherever placed, say in good
faith, come along if you have enough to
pay the fare here there is work waiting
for you; unexplored fields are open for
the skilled artisan, as well as .or the tiller
Of the SOIL. b. ARMSTRONG In
Country Gentlemen.