The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-09-04
California Correspondence
CREssEY STATION, herced Co, CAL, [

t..-' August ~. 1874.
DEAR FREEMAN-The threshers have come
ana gone, and now know something about
threshing. ! told you tcfore about plowing;
meaning, and stacking. There were ten stacks
on eight hundred acres. The threshers came
on iuesiay, Aug. l1th, at O'Clock, and finished
To-Day, the 10th, at Q o'ciock, threshing ten
T.ic STt.ihcks-elght thousand busheis-in seven days.
.,, ney were put back by disappointment in get
ting hands and by breaking the threshing ma
a eaihe WIN chain which had been lcft ON one
81 " tnr. Mchees stacks the day before coming
70 our place 'They threshed nearly twelve
nenndred bushels per day. and could have
fIptcd rultning. They thresh a Sack a minute
and that is two bushel and II peek. or IS5 lbs
The machnery consists of an engine a thresh-
err, er, sgparator. % a platform wagon, and der
platform by the aid OF immense forks operated
ny stcenI power. From this platform il is fed
INTO the thresher The power that hoists the
wheat is called the '6rab, and consists of two
reversible pulley cylinders. arotInd which the
ropes wind and unwind mt the pleasure of the
power from one cylinder To another These
FORKS take up small wagon load or q large
S,ed SLED ioad 81 81 straw at one pull aud both forks
tend thiS machine-one engineer. one crab"
tender two fork tenders three platform pitch-
erS, two feeders, one sack sewer, one sack S.6
rIcr, one to haul away the straw, two to- hau!
wafer and one to boss The job. 1t requires six
h"rs, tn haul water rtutione to haul the s.ra "
and three cooks are kept busy preparing grub
Tor the operators. The next thing in order now
Is TO convey this whcat five miles the station
II we haul four TONS dty II will require fifty
days: We will coTmrIrto hauling immediate
out the price will doubtless go mp We intend
to store ours in warehouse. aud run tl,. risk
OF earthquakes, comets, ami 'sich IKE"
we nave 3tFO sheep on OIr ranch now, hiIt
they do not belong to us. We sold the stflhbl,.
20 sheep man, who " ili pasture HIS flock here
untll the rain comes say about the first OF De
ccmhcr. Sh""p owners clip twc" year here.
aud taking oil the second ,.rpf, pf yrpnI
One man clips one hundred sliccu per day
We have uiI.;itliindsnCe or fruit here this sca-
son-applcs, peaches, pears, meIuus, etc. The
weather is still dry. but il does not init,rc the
fruit, as there are heavy dcws at night.
| have not slcpt in a. bed. if | may except n
wagon bed, for three months. For the last
eight nights M Gully ltcd has been wagon bed,
Hs intiTiltrd. ana ! didn't catch cold either.
THE mosquitoes bothered me- some and dreams
of home Bothered In,. 'sOTrcr."
Tlc~IohnstOwn T'ijuue says that ! wrote to
an luiiuCniiai citizen of that place that was
Legislature. This Is giuhicd extract from my
letter. UhH didH't he publish the Ietf,r ia f,tTf
Bat as he il postmaster now will say more
about 1t. except that there was. as BccCier
would say, nothing tnffnulul in that letter. 1t
was only ii spiritual 9t diriHc cnmtitunion with
u congenidl spirit, Df COURSE il was.
i am still sitiI'n of PeunsyI-au and may
go back from the Occifent t. tli,. DyirHt to vote
but II do ! won't lake q HOIII. as am toe
tt'tal abstinence man now. Ihcre is nothing
here To drink but pure water. nor can liqJiUr
be ottainc cd at "a less distance than nftccn miles
feel all !he better for its as nee. so far
the nominal Ons are concerned. However I in
tend to stick to the ticket ike Al good Demo
crrt-as Harry white would say, al foT the good
Of my purtU,
! must close this letter Installer as am not
Silll sp endid on cyH-UH-dI tHi~.
W ttn many wishes for your health and pros
perity, remain,
Truly yours. ROB Roy.
7. s. IL YOU find any money lying around
loose cut there it must tie mine, as | have lost
AL had-at least have nonc now. IL. II.