The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-08
BARTLETT SPRINGS, Sept. sth, 1878

JOu tiitty hnOW, poIicCtiV Wtll HlHn
would be after travelling SO far, As miles
of which was over the toughest imag-
Unable mountain road. Sometimes our
stage would be winding its away up
side of q mountain, and suddenly run
out on point some hundreds of feet
above great gorge which seemed to
long to rock our stage In the soft fleecy
tops of its pines.
] will tell you some things about the
country, passed through, and that
which surrounds. After leaving Sacra-
mento we travelled something near one
hundred miles up the Sacramento river
on the left hand side, ranging from to
25 miles back from the river, which is
bordered with from two TO eight miles
of low swamp land. AS this is
covered with "Tule Grass this
swan p land is known as tule land"
These tules" are very dense. They are
about as thick as your little finger, per-
fectly round and about fifteen feet
high, dark green in color, and at dis
tance of five miles looks like vast lev
el field of waving grain just about head
ing out. The State is making an effort
to reclaim the lands by system of
drainage. The grain land is a sort of
bench or table-land which rises suddenly
about 20 feet above the tules and extends
back about 80 to 80 miles on adead level
until very near the foot hills, where it
rises and rolls in long, graceful, wavy
stretches blending into them. On these
lands there was great activity among
the farmers: it was harvest time and
they were heading and threshing the
grain, and the smoke of steam engines
was seen rising far and near all over the
plain. The manner of gathering and
threshing the crops in this country diff
fers very greatly from that of the East.
There are no small farms here or if any,
they are very rare. i think L did hear
of a few poor men who were farming
from 900 to 1900 acres piece. But
nearly all the farmers farm from 5000 to
10000 acres (which is the largest wheat
farm in the world, owned by DIR.
Glenn. Glenn has $4,000 acres Of wheat
this year. l was told that this poor
farmer lost nearly 100000 dollars
by selling his grain five days too soon
last year,, and consequently requiring
great force to gather and thresh the
crop. They have what are known as
headers" which cut II, IS, or "a foot
swath, according to size of machine
They are drawn by four or six horses
and cut nothing but the heads, which
they elevate into a wagon which is
drawn alongside the header. This
wagon or tender" is then driven to the
separator" or great threshing ma
chine, where it is unloaded on pile, or
stack, as you would call it, should say
the stack, are made first and then after
several days the SEPARATOR is taken
from one to another of these piles and
the heads are threshed. The headers in
general use cut IL feet wide and clear 26
acres per day. The separators are run
by steam. They require twelve men,
and thresh from 800 to 2,400 sacks of
grain a day according to size of machine.
The largest separator is on DIR. Glenn's
ranch: it has threshed 2,400 sacks in
day, 100 pounds to the sack ,as you would
measure it $500 bushels. The machine
threshes, cleans and sacks the grain
ready for market.
They have lately invented another
machine which is drawn by horses. 1t
heads, threshes and sacks the grain. But
they are not in general use as yet did
not see any of them, but / am told they
cut six feet wide and leave the sacks of
grain strewn over the fields like the old
reaper leaves the sheaves. At Williams
they had warehouse with 1000 tons of
grain already in it, and it will have 1000
tons when full. saw five of these
large warehouses on the plain. They
ioNC " nalCliDidu GitCu ldTIIlGT DdHS
30 to 40 cents per ton storage. These are
the farmers bins and barns. They store
it in these company houses and can sell
any day by telegraph at q moments
notice. When stored it is just the same
as so much mining stock, and the far
mer watches the market just as eagerly
as the stock operator, and tries to get
out at top figures. After leaving the
plain the rest of my journey lay through
mountain country, which was, like all
new mountain scenery, very inter-
esting. But shall not attempt to de-
scribe, as | am already wearying you, I
know. L must tell you some thing
about this place.
Bartlett Spring, the object of my
journey, II miles out on the road to this
place are the first mineral springs and
from there in all along the road are
many springs containing waters all of
which are mineral and differ in their
composition. Some are soda and iron,
some are arsenic, some are for the dys-
pepsia, and some are for the complex
ion, and all have their admirers and
patrons. l tasted of nearly all of them,
after saw my fellow passengers do SO
without any evil results, but L have al
ways been little careful of forming new
chemical combinations in the stomach.
always stood back while the rest tasted
and poured new waller on that taken
from the previous spring, expecting to
see big explosion and be the only one
left to take care of their jewelry &c.
and hold an inquest on what was left of
them. But L was always surprised to
see that the waters took kindly to each
other, and after waiting reasonable
time, | went up and took drink N.Y.
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