The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-04
TlG MoITiSt0Wl Gazette.
wEDNEsDA J, APRIL 4. 1877
Word to Emigrants.

= Word to Emigrants.
To the Eiitor os tie .Iorr.stown Gazette:
Are there not. in your section OF coun-
try, number Of people who have made
up their minds TO 20 West? Perhaps to
Texas. Kansas, Missouri, or Nebraska? +?
II So, allow me to say u word, through
the columns of your widely circulated
paper. Having travelled very exten-
siveIy, and noted carefully all the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of the Wes-
tern States, have no hesitation in say
ing that California offers, by far, the
greatest number Of inducements to the
emigrant
If you go to the black lands Of the
Trinitics, the Brazos, or the Colorado,
then, that YOU will take the chills and
fever, is a feregone conclusion Don't
go to Western Texas, for it is bilious
country. No fruits, no vegetables; and
YOU win have to live on the Western
Texans diet bacon, coffee, and whisky
until you become long, lean, and cadav-
crous, like he is. After a five years
residence you will look as if you had
been dried upon a dry kiln. Don't
60 to Kansas, Missouri or Nebraska, for
there YOU will find rich lands, with
chiIls for you in the summer, and the
fierce wintry blasts will blow you off of
your farms, cornpei you to burn your
corn for fuel and sell what is left in the
spring for ten cents bushel. Don't go
to a country where you can only raise
corn or wheat, but come TO land where
you can raise successfully every fruit
and vegetable that grows under the sun!
Come to country which, beyond
doubt, possesses the most delightful eli
mate in the world It is neither too hot
nor too cold We have no sleet, no
snow, no ice, except in the Sierras, and
the leaves on our forest trees are now
almost full grown, and the wild flowers
are in full bloom over the kills and val
Ieys. Here you can have, from your
own planting, in three years time, an
abundance of apples, peaches, pears,
apric6ts, nectarines, plums, cherries,
prunes, figs, almonds. raisins, &c, &c,
and the fruit crop never fails. Here
Won can take piece of vacant land, and
with three years Of steady, .persevering
industry, have your house shrouded in
vines and choice flowers, gathered from
every country, and shaded by rare, or
namentaI trees, from twenty TO thirty
feet high. If you have taste for hor-
ticulture, and the cultivation of choice
flowers, then indeed, you will find this
vour earthly paradise. Many beautiful
flowers bloom in midwinter, and you
can gather fresh strawberries from your
garden every month in the year. Oran
res. lemons, lines and olives, come to
full bearing in about ten years and L
know one man who has an old orange
orchard containing forty acres, which
he rents out every year at one thousand
dollars an acre Orchards of winter ap-
pies, ten to fifteen years old, rent at for
ty to fifty dollars per acre, and the aver
age yield of wine grapes is ten thous-
and pounds per acre; which the wine
maker gathers and hauls off Of your
premises at one cent. per pound. If you
wish to engage in the sheep or cattle
business, You viii find a wide field in
rhe valley and on the grass-cOvered hills
of this State, and your stock will thrive
on the natural grasses, both winter and
summer. If you wish to engage in the
wheat business you can buy plenty of
land ut a low price, and for lessons in
wheat growing, / would refer you to
DR. Glenn, of Colusa county, who, this
wear cleared q hundred thousand dollars
on his crop, and would have cleared
hundred thousand dollars more if he
had held his wheat few weeks longer.
But the class of settlers which Cali
fornia needs most is the farmer who
will take a small farm and cultivate it
thoroughly The most pleasing, and al
the same time the most profitable branch
of industry for the farmer of small
means to engage in, is the cultivation
and drying of choice fruits for the mar
Elcts Of the world. One man can plant
and cultivate ten acres of raisin grapes,
and another ten acres in figs, almonds,
English walnuts, prunes, plums and apri-
cots, and still find that he has one third
of the year for leisure or other bust
ness Twenty acres of the above fruits
and nuts will, at the end of four years,
yield a handsome support for the largest
family, and will sell for at least ten
thousand dollars. Reader, 1 have given
you no fancy sketch, but plain, un-
yarnishcd statement Of facts. Inforna-
tion in regard TO cost of coming out,
price OF lands, etc, win be cheerfully
given on application.
j. w. REESE.
Emmett, San Benito CO., Cal, March
10th, 1877.
The Wrong Man.
We are not ashamed of our name