The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1877-05-09
Extract from " LETTER from, Red Blur
California.

Red Bluff is improving rapidly, new
buildings going mp and The population in
creasing all the while. a magnificent
bridge spanning the Sacramento is Just
completed, aud we've had a grand cele-
bration IN honor thereof A very large
planning mill has jn-t been erected on It c
I opposite side OF the river, and the lume
has at last lem finished to thi, place. It
IS a wonderful curiosity to Us. 1t is
SHAPED like the letter V, and it is made OF
two>inch plank nail d together in the
above shape. Across the top it is about
two and halt feet in width; the ends are
very carefully fitted. SO that where the
panks 90 together there may he no un-
evenne>s, or timber going at the rate OF
fifteen to sixty miles an hour must have
clear coast Ii i mounted upon tall |
'r--tie-Wo;k Near the terminus an iron
break Is placed in the trough, slanting to-
ward one side, so that when the timber !
comes rushing down, fifty or a hundred .
pieces one after the other, each piece is I
turned toward the side, and the men at .
the break, with a dextcrous use of the /
crow bar, send them bounding to the .
ground In this trough the water runs .
from the mountains | climbed to the /
top OF the tre,tlc>work before the timber |
began To come II was like the rushing /
OF q her. OF buffalo or Il party of hunters,
and preferred to view the flumc IN active /
working from distance Some idea of /
the swIiinesS with which the timber runs
through the tlumc may be al, when it IS
stated that there floats five million icct of
lumber every day. This ilume and lum-
Der company Is a big thing" and gives
employment to a great many men. It
cost an immense sum. hnt the company il
coming money. The timber principally
used is pine; the sugar pine is the most
valuable, then the yellow pine. The
black pine is als9 much priced, and
reaches "A diameter Of n feet and height
of two hundred; the leaves are ola dark
green color, and the cones are enormous
sometimes eighteen inches long; the wood
is fine grained and solid i
Words can not express my admiration
for the climate orCaIifornia; we know no
winter here. This moruin. am writing
to YOU in front Of an open window, with
floods Of warm golden sunlight falling /
about me, and listening to the bird,ma;in
warbled by full orchestra, while the
sweetest fragrance comes pulsing up from
the Iie,iolrope AVID violcts in the garden ,
beds outside Never lighter blew the ,
hrcczes in the wales OF Aragon, never ,
smiled Hesperia's heavens with more ,
lovely -lories on " There was a thunder
storm in the night, and nature ir that
bret til Of passion swept away every un- /
kind and unpleasant emotion, and this
has put on the lovelicst attire in
all hSr wardrobe, and deckcd hc+sclf in
lororals and wreaths Of flowers that load |
~ az Nlt'i 1NNClltSN- ! nc dliIlOlu trees ]
are white with fragrant blossoms, and the
scrantnms Jasmine. roses, lilies. megnio-
nett, AMI many other fpwerS are boom
ing IN great luxuriauce As far as the
eye can reach the plains are covered with
green, velvcty grass, six inches or more ,
high, with here and there little rivul.t
eapinS and dancing along over the bright
shells and pebbles like happy child at ,
play, AMI yet we are surrounded 10y noun
aims white with snow. You can not ,
imagine a loyelier picture than feast ups
IN every day. Oh, what gloriously !
country. Fruit and vegetables l
lrc just as abundant as in spring 'Tis a
Paradise without the angels.
Let me thank you for the HERALD,
whose coming hail with as much JOY as
4 dear old friend Success to your paper;
ong may it flourish.
am glad TO see Willie Bonner back.
Truly, f p H.