, 1874-03-26
California Correspondence.

I'D .e COLUMBUS, March 8, 1874
Mr.. EDIToB= The moon fulled down
here yesterday evening. and that event
or some other foul weather breeding in
cident among the elements above OF be-
low. has brought US another snowstorm.
Yes, another high mettled, relentless
snowstorm is upon us; and really it
seems as though they would never stop
coming. If I should write to you as Of
ten as the snow storms come this winter
in this part Of the human rancherie. you
would probably rule mo out of your
columns as . pestifUrous correspondent.
OF all the winters for the past twenty
three years. the present is. the coolest
and most backward. Not . fruit tree of
any sort up here has dared to venture
out in a blossom habit az yet; and the
little amphibs that inhabit the springy
or wet places and that usually ccme out
now and then in the winter season and
salute us with few faint notes of their
usual song. just for rarity, have not
been heard from since their departure
into the mud pools at the settiug in of
cold weather. and it is feared BY the low
ers of frog melody that their little jaws
will become 30 grmly locked IS to ruin
their singing faculties. and their sweet
music will not be heard hereafter, to give
life and variety to the wild, ungrammat-
ical strains of natures musicians. But
Nature is impartial and will deal fairly
and as kindly with the little creatures
that hop and crawl around on the sur
face of this planet, as she will with otha
er branches of animate creation, that IS.
innate themselves infinitely higher in
the great scale Of being. She will fix
things to suit herself; will have her own
way, and all animate beings, without re-
gard to their number of legs, horns on
their heads, length of their tails, or
other particular forms. may as well
knock under and succumb to her laws.
Nature will have her way and her say
every day. She is the same from the
first. last and all the time,
true rnd undertaking in her principles.
But though here in the mountain dis
tricts, the backwardness of the season
is seemingly against us. yet it may not
not be so. In the State ct large there
never has been better prospect. if ever
Al good, at this period Of the grain pro-
ducing season for bountiful crop Of
the usually cultivated grains as at pres
ent.
The mountain districts do but little.
any year, in the grain producing busi-
ness. What grain is sown in them is, in
the main, cut for hay, Of which much is
for livery stables, numbering
teams and for wintering the stock kept
on the ranches for home uses. It is
worth more to nee in that way than for
and besides. we have no 9TH
er means Of obtaining hay for such pur-
poses. the climate and the soil during
the summer and the early fall months,
becoming so hot and dry as to kill out
entirely the common hav making var;e
ties of grass. While We nut ON our but
termill faces and comniai, NJ the cold
stormy weather. vet II h.s not coma mn
10 q souare off,at for tha terrible roast.
inc we oot last ve.r dur;no over seven
Of steady. red-hot ,unshine. =
Really if did annaar AZ thouph the cloud
mailing elements had loet ali their now
sr Of such production and that min vas
40 more to BE- looked for in and around
these diecinps. But Notwithstanding
he extreme dryness and the thistle. down