Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-14

the fact that the southern coast counties
that heretofore had not been supposed goot
for anything for wheat, were this year pro
ducing this great staple for export 10 England
at the rate of thirty and forty bushels to tn
| acre. As he looked over these almost bound
less resources of our State for the pro
duction of the staff of life to his country
| men his countenance beamed with delight
| as if to say the mother country has indeed {
| frugal and prosperous child in America, upor
whom she may rely with confidence in hel
old age for good square meal. The secono
question the Commissioner is looking up Il
whether England can depend on America fol
continuance of her roast beef dinners. IL
this question we gave him equally strong as
surances. We showed him the enormous
quantities of straw, equal to the best English
hay. that is now annually burned to get it of
of the ground, that would one day be econo.
mized and turned into loin and porter-house
steaks for Englishmens morning meals. We
showed him that full four-tenths of the area
of the United States, the vast arid regions Of
the Rocky Mountains, were still practically
unoccupied; that this broad expanse OF
country must from the nature of its location,
elevation and climate, become one vast pas.
ture for sheep and cattle, one vast producer
of mutton and beef from which millions
OF pounds could be spared for shipment
- rlo 4ha ba,r -
and fill the bellies of English subjects who
should be so unfortunate as to be unable to
come to the land of plenty. In view of these
dattering prospects of future plenty to his
countrymen, the Commissioner was happy
and seemed anxious to go out on a trip of
personal inspection of our immediate produc-
tions. So we kindly prepared him with let
ters of introduction to H. M. Larue,
President of our State Agricultural Society,"
whose farm is in Yolo county, near Davis
vile, to r. II. Newton, f. S. Freeman and
Thomas & Hunt, of Woodland, who will
drive him to the wheat fields and harvesting
and threshing operations in Yolo county; to
John Boggs, DR.. Glenn and others of Colusa
county, who will show him the boundless
seas of wheat uncut and countless stacks of
wheat unthrashed in that county, and
give him glimpse of acres of wheat sacks
lying on the wharves of the railroads and
rivers; and from there he viii go over to
Chico to rest on Sunday before stretching his
sight over the wheat fields of Butte
county. When he shall have re-
turned by the California and Oregon
road through the wheat fields of Yubs SUIT
ter, Placer and Sacramento counties, in or
der that he shall see some more wheat fields,
we shall give him trip through San joaquin,
Stanislaus. Calaveras, Tulare, to the upper
end of the San Joaquin valley, and then if
him of cur present ability to feed England
with bread, he can take trip through Con-
ira Costa, Alameda and Santa Clara, and go
on down into Monterey and San Louis 0bispo,
to behold the lands that we are holding back
for future wheat production. When return.
ing from the south he can go over to Marin,
Sonoma, Napa, Solano aud look up the coast
through Mendocino and Humboldt to Del
Norte, and besides the wheat fields, take
peep at some of our butter and cheese estab-
lishments. When the Commissioner by per-
sonal inspection has satisfied himself of our
present capacity, he will be in state of
mind to comprehend our pictures of the fu-
ture of the Empire State of the Pacific.