The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-06
YoLo, CALIFORNIA. Sept. %,
EprroR True NoBrHsRNER


EDITOR TnUE NoRrHsRNER
OF late have received several copies OF the
TRUE NoRTHxRNER. and it looks % natural and
friendly l am tempted to say something for my
country through the columns Of your excellent
paper.
At last our long, tedious California harvest is
over, and the steam threshers that have been
threshing from three to Ave thousand bushels
per day are slowly vending their way back to
the lower country, whence they came, to lay by
until another harvest calls them back And
now. looking away across the country IN most
any direction, one can see clouds OF dust rising
from teams of from eight to twelve mules
hauling behind them the immense freight
wagons loaded with from four to eight hundred
bushels of wheat. They are hauling it to the
long, spacious warehouses .that are alongside
the track at every station. Most OF the ware
houses are now full and they are piling the
racks up in the freight yards like 80 many cords
Of wood when it lays awaiting shipment. AL
grain is shipped in the rack to Vallejo where it
is Toured and shipped from there by steamer
to Europe.
California is undoubtedly one OF the best
wheat growing states in the union, and Yolo
county one OF the best counties In the state
The valley ranches average from thirty to forty
bushels per acre. T. c. Hoppin, cousin of
Samuel Hoppin of Van Buren, county, one of
the best ranchers in Yolo county, has rancho
of fifteen hundred acres, eight hundred of
which was wheat that averaged thirty bushels
per acre, and three hundred Of barley that
averaged about twenty-five bushels per acre.
He has shipped thirty car loads OF wheat which
brought HIM S1.40 per hundred pounds. The
rancho is we'll stocked with thirty head OF horses
and mules, thirty head Of fine cattle and about
fifteen hundred head Of hogs. Most Of the
ranchers have from eight hundred to five thou
sand head OF sheep which are herded in the
foot hills along the coast-range, not costing the
owner anything for keeping only the wages OF
the herders, which are from thirty to forty dol
lars per month. according to the number oil
sheep herded.
It is said that il thirty car loads OF wheat bt
shipped from the warehouses along this lint
each day, it will not clear them for next harvest
From this the reader can form some idea OF thu
grains grown in this country. Yolo county lle
between the coast range mountains on the ives
and Sierra Nevadas on the east. The land i
very fertile and level, and In most parts beauti
fully timbered with the wide spreading Cali
fornia oaks; the soil is best calculated TO
wheat and barley, but II irrigated is Of the yer
best for vegetables. California is noted TO
being one Of thel best fruit growing states il
the union, and l think 1t merits the praise 10
all varieties, except apples, and old Michigan i
her superior them but for peaches, plum'
apricots, grapes, figs, oranges, ETC., Californi
excels.
Yolo, lively little place Of about three bur
dred inhabitants, is situated on Cache Creel
near the center of the county, about eightee
miles from Sacramento, and bids fair to be on
of the best business places IN the county, bein
one Of the best grain centers. Woodland, he
sister village and the county seat Of Yolo Co
is q place Of about the number Of inhabitani
that Paw Paw has, and doing about the sam
amount Of BUSINESS. Woodland is situate
about six miles southeast, on the Sacrament
aud Knights Landing railroad. Last winter
branch road was built, starting from there an
running northwest through Yolo and Antelor
to Williams Station, which will be- pushed O
through to Oregon as soon as possible. II is
pc the California Pacific Northern r. r.
EUGENE F. DEAN.