The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-03
GALIFoRNIAN COLONIES.

C--S JOSE-r 1d4s 4Aus5- To- 1851
EDS. NEws: Since 1 last wrote, I
have been studying the work Of the
colonies or communities of people
settled upon lands usually irrigated, and
engaged mainly in the culture of trOpi-
cal and sub-tropical fruits
There are five such colonies IN Fresno
county, near TuIare Lake The land is
fertile loan, some fifteen or twenty
| feet in depth The plain where 1t IS not
irrigated, LOOKS sterile enough 1t Is
vast IN extent, very level, and IS. in sum-
mcr, swept by very hot winds, the Eier-
| cClry rising daily, for weeks together, to
4 temperature above 100 degrees But
It is walled on the east by the enormous
Alpine mass of Mount Whitney and its
Eeiyhboring peaks, whose everlasting
glaciers and SaoT-fieIis LOOK tzntaliZTHg
enonEh from the parched PLAIN below
| Tie foothills a-e covered in places by
! tine gigantic seaUOIas, and the melting
SHOWS I'll the channels % the rivers 20
the brin when the summer heat Is great
est Dams ard canals from these rivers
SUPPLY hszE NE4O-AAE= HIT al
usually twenty accs each, with ditch
extending completely around TIse
product Of these little firms Is some
thing astonishing Alfalfa Is mOwn
some five times a year, and e4ch acre
/ feeds five COWS abuElfzntiy the year
round Thus dairying proves profitable
Nv cousin informs me- that last year ne
/ produced nearly twO tons Per acre Of
vineyard, and this Yield seems below the
zEegz-e The rzEsi1s. zrtIfseIzIly bEeaeIs-
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EscE ton = gross PrOIE,cs 81 500 worth
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