Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-04-11
From the Mining and Scientific Press.1
TRINITY COUNTY N0TES---C0NTINUED,
Weaver Basin ana the Hay Fork.

Below McGillivray's Ranch, there is
but little arabic land within the limits of
Trinity county. There are, however. A
good many spots suitable for the pillow, in
the broad, circular, but irregular valley,
known as Weaver Basin. The largest. as
well as the most highly improved farm in
this locality, is that of DR.. Ware, stu
ated one mile north of this place. Here,
besides an immense orchard containing
almost every kind of fruit, sog5e of II
semi-tropical, are severe, fields yearly
sown to gram, not to mention long rows
OF oee-hives, trelIisGd 'grape-vines, groves
o' ornamental trees, and whole village
OF oIt-houses for the protection of chick
ems, COWS, horses, and other domestic ami
mails everything here also being mark
ed by sort of magnificent expenditure
and rude abundance. Nearly every house
in Weaverville has large garden at
tached to it, the most of them well filled
with fruit trees, vegetables, vines, plants,
and flowers, while all the principal streets
are lined with cottonwood trees, some of
them seemingly large enough to have
stood where they are for half a century.
Along Weaver creek, nearly all the way
from this place to its junction with Trim
ity river, occur, at short intervals, patches
Of alluyial land, all the sites Of pleasant
homesteads being inclosed and under cul-
tlvation. Over on the Hay Fork, the
main branch Of the South fork of Trinity,
are number Of fine farms, on which a
large amount of hay is cut b; some of it
made from the growing grain. and some
from the natural meadows. There are
also great many cattle kept here. The
most of this stock is retained in the valley
through the Winter, being fed on hay,
for which there is no other demand.
UndeyeIoped Agricultural Resour-
ces, Grazing Lands, Etc.
The above mentioned places include
about all the land naturally adapted to
agricultural purposes in Trinity county.
AS the soil is generally rich-there is,
however, much land besides this that
could, by irrigation and careful culture,
be made to produce good crops of vege-
tables, grass and grain-tho soil and eli
mate being almost everywhere we'll suited
to the growth Of most kinds of fruit, and
even the vine and some semi-t tropical
products thriving, except in more elevat-
ed localities. There is no end to the fruit,
all of the best quality, that might be
raised here were there only market for
it. Already there is more produced than
can be sold Or given away, almost every
householder growing more than enough
for his own use the distance and fre;ghts
to San Francisco, the only available mar
ket, being too great to admit Of any being
sent away. Yet l believe the Winter
apples raised here could be shipped to
your city and sold at a profit, for surely
no person who had ever tasted of this
fruit would ever again consent to buy or
even eat the filthy and corrugated trash
that is sold there under the name OF
apples.
The agricultural capacities Of Trinity
county could be immeasurably increased
with irrigation +; and when the time shall
come, as it soon will, that her innumer-
able mountain streams shall be applied to
that purpose, being divested for few
weeks every Summer from use in the
mines, then shall we see her thousand
hills yellow with grain fields and green
with clover; then will every eminence be
planted with orchards and vineyards, and
every valley with gardens. Farm houses
and homesteads will be multiplied ; sheep
and cattle will swarm everywhere +; great
haystacks being put up and held for their
use avoiding the necessity that now exists
for driving stock elsewhere for subsst-
ence every Winter. This country abounds
in the wild grasses which afford sufficient
Summer pasturage to sustain q large
amount of stock. Comparatively little,
however, is kept here, owing to the ex-
pense and trouble attending their annual
removal, the herdsmen being compelled
to drive the most of them over the mount
aims into the Sacramento valley or west
ward into the coastrcgion on the approach
of Winter. As yet irrigation has not
been extensively practised here, farming
operations having been mostly confined
to the rich alluvial lands where it has not
been greatly needed.
Her Wealth Of Woods.