The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-08-02
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From the San Francisco Chronicle
Dr Hugh James GLENN named ny tue
partv ~ the New Constitution as their can.
dida;e for Governor OF the State OF Cali
Sornia. "a not what has been known IN ilte-
rotnre "a a "genteman farmer" Ills
hands are hard from actual contact with
labor. his face is brown from real expo
anro r. the sun, There are those who OBJ
loot IN 3r. Glenn because he -tills broad
acres. Il is true that his acres are broader
thon those OF most men, but he t1lia
them ali. He tilIs them himself, ana
he acquired every rood by the money
which came from his own president
exertion. His place Is. not the largest
landed estate In the world. but 1t Is among
the largest, and in reality the most extern
sive put TO legitimates use. II any OF his us
cunerate. He makes it yield to the utmost
OF It's capacity. The ranch lies on the Sac
romento river, beginning about twenty
miles above the town Of CoIusa. Its length
on meridian is not far from sixteen miles;
following the winding of the river it eX-
tends nearly thirty miles. The general
shane is that OF paralelngram, its river
edge being long waving line, its western
edge nearly straight, with the exception OF
a single projection, and its average width
being about one third OF its length. It's sur
face is fat or undulating, like the Drairles
OF Southern Illinois. Where it skirts the river
it occasionally falls down into broad bottom
land, handsomely diversified with timber,
and kept clear and palk-llllc by the removal
Of the underbrush, or runs along the hlSh
CLAW bank which the treacherons stream IS
all the while seeking to undermine. The
soil is black or gravellY loan, never sup
10 - ovapnt FOR praZlnr
iii DR., Glenn proved its fertility and lis
adaptability TO wheat culture some ten
wears ago. Before that time: the dull,
monotonous fairness Of the country was
scarcely broken by fence. Now, the
broad plain, from the banks OF the me-
andcfing Sacramento to the slope OF The
Coast Ridge, is asuccession OF wheat-felds-
one vast sea OF nodding grain, cut up here
and there in squares and ob'ongs, and
dotted at irregular intervals by farm-hotlses,
Will their ample barns and other essential
buildings. ..... -
The harvcst-time on the Glenn ranch is
spread over The whole summer and part OF
the fall. 1t begins in the middle OF June
and lasts till October. All through this
long period the headers are plunging
through the standing wheat, and the thresh-
ers are laundering over all these leagues of
land. The seeding begins about the mid
die Of September, tapping OIL to the har-
vest, and lasts till April. Lest there should
be Il month OF idenoss between seeding
and harvest, Providence has provided 4
haying season, which furnishes hcalthfu
industry for that unoccupied period. DR..
Glenn has this year $4,000 acres in wheat.
"PeopIe ask why | raise all wheat,' he
SAYS. sThe answer is simple. 1t is the
only crop that will bear tranSporlion; 1t is
the only crop not perishable. must not
raise on my land what ruins me, but what
is prottuble.'' These $4,000 acres were eX-
pccted to yield 1,O00,0 900 bushels, but some
damaging northers reduced the estimated
amount below 100000. This Tan be p"ced
on the river bank, ready for transportation,
for 80 cents per bushel.
This vast amount OF gain requires vast
appliances for planting and bringing to q
roint where it is accessible to the consumer.
During harvest-time there are employed
some 800 men. This small army is Differed
as follows: Or. Glenn is general-in. chief or
his forces. The ranch is subdiyded, Tor
convenience OF operations. into nine smaller
ranches. each with Gwelling-hcusc, barns,
backsmith's shop, and other needed build
ipgs. In charge of these arc 7 foremcn-
the icutcnants OF DR.. Glenn. Under the
foremen are Is blacksmiths, II carpenters,
G engineers, macn1nists, 5 commissarics,
and numerous cooks and servants. The
common workmen-the rank and tlc or the
army--are divided into gangs, and detailed
where they are needed-to the reapclS,
the thrc>bers, the cleaners, &c. These men,
so differed, manage vast fortune invested
in the costliest kind OF agricultural ma.
chinery. There are $50 gang-ploWS, 60
headers, to which belong 100 wagons,
cleaners, 100 harrows, IS seeders, 6 thresf-
crs, 6 engines. Besides, there is count
less number OF smaller implements, and
many vehicles that cannot well be classified.
Cooperating with their human brethren in
the great labor are 1000 work-horses and
mules, with a kinship Of 1000 brood-mares
and younger stock that has not yet achieved
the dignity OF labor. The aggregate value
Of the machinery is imposing. Plows cost
$120; headers, 1915; wagons accompany
ing headers, sl35; cleaners, $3.50; har-
rows, S45; thresbers, $1,000; engines,
$3.50; secdcrs, $50. Without wearying
the reader with minute mathematics, we
may roundly say that the machinery could
not he replaced for Sl25,000; tnat the work
horses and mules are worth $4,000; the
brood-mares and young stock, $4,000; and
the buildings on the place, 100000.
OF the buildings, there are 80 dwelling
houses, IA blacksmith's shops, q barns, and
enough structures, large and small, to make
q total of 100. The village OF Jacinto, which
is on the ranch and part OF it. includes Il
hotel, store, ferry, shops, warehouses. and
several dwellings,, furnishing everything
that is needed for comfort and convenience
in living, without the luXuries. There is
no telegraph-office, Il telephone conmuni-
eating with that Of Colusa, twenty-scven
miles distant. The country is new, and
none Of the villages large. Colusa is an OLD
settlement, and an exception. The Central
Pacific, in. extending its Davisville branch
north to meet the line on the east side OF tue
valley at Red Bluff, is creating towns as
it advances. The last erection is WILLOWS,
the present terminus, and the nearest sta
tion to Jacinto. The name Of the place Is
of local origin. Long before the country
heoan TO feel the discipline of the plow or
tho restraint OF fences it was used for graz
inc c.ttle and sheep. Water at distance
from the river was as scarce in summertime
~ On the Desert of Sahara. In this vast
waste was one oasis-the Willows-a pool
with a perennial spring shaded by trees,
inst east OF the locality OF the present town.
Flocks and herds were driven to it from all
the surrounding country. The railroad
company allowed the designation to adhere
to the station, instead OF fixing some less
agreeable name Of their own.
A ride OF an hour and q quarter from
willows after Il pair OF fleet BIackbirds OF
the great rancher brings the visitor to his |
uuassuming home on the banks OF the Sac |
rameuto. The house in which he lives is |