Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-25

illustrated. Then the fiber will be
| taken up by the manufacturer when
| the producer leaves it, and will be carried
through all the stages of manufacture into
| the various articles produced from It mus
the exposition is intended to be demonstra-
ton to our own people and to the world, NOT
| only of the capacity of our country for the
production of this great staple. but our
ability to produce from it by manufacture all
| the various articles of commerce to which it
| is adapted. All the old and new machinery
for cotton manufacture will also be shown in
| motion. and steam-power and other facilities
will be provided for the exhibition of all other
| labor saving agricultural and other machinery
| in motion. Citrus and other fruits adapted
to warm climate will receive special atten-
ton, and thus will be afforded good oppor-
tunity for our fruit-growers to study the
capacity of the Southern States to enter int
competition with them for supplying
the markets of the country with their pc.
I culiar products. On the whole this Interna-
tional Exposition, held, as It is to be, in the
center of what has been and is known as
" the South. has more than local or even
national significance. and should be embraced
by the whole country as one of the best OPP
portunities yet afforded for the development
OF unity OF interest the country over-not
only socially and politically, but industri-
any NdtAtciIid Sibuit b1fC llBtC THAI al
ordinary interest in this Exposition. There
are thousands of people here from the South
ern States, who have never visited their own
beloved Sunny South since their early
settlement in this State, and who will
undoubtedly be glad to embrace this OPP
portunity to visit once more the scenes of
their childhood. Then the Southern Railroad
will soon bring this whole southern section
In much closer commercial relations TO US
than have heretofore existed, and our mer-
chants are especially interested in seeing aud
learning the capacities and resources of that
country and the probable bearings of these
closer relations upon our own commerce and
trade.
Permanent Fence for Tule Lands
The first fences built in the tule lands of
this State were generally made by digging
bitches, from two to three feet deep, and
using the sod ard earth, thus excavated all on
one side of the ditch as an embankment. The
excavation and embankment together make
quite formidable barrier or fence to turn
stock. It was soon found, however, that the
sides of the bitches caved in and the embank-
ment fell down and was worn and knocked
down by stock. and cattle made their way
over and across It, and what was at first
pretty good farm became worthless. These
old bitches have been filled up as above, and
by sediment, till but few can now be found.
All post and rail fences built in the tules have
proved equally valueless. the water acting
against the boards works the posts loose and
al rise, and posts and boards h)at away to-
gether. Wire fences made OF redwood or other
posts set in the ground in the ordinary way
by digging or boring holes and tramping
earth about the posts, aud then fastening on
the wire, have proved about as useless. The
posts finally get loose and float off, carrying
the wire with them. These posts have been
anchored by fastening cross bars to them be
low ground, and by enlarging the posts be-
low ground by various devices, butall these ex-
pedients have not answered the purpose of
making the fence permanent and reliable.
Finally driving the posts has been resorted
to with promise of success. 1t is found that
by driving the posts into the ground when
moist, the earth presses against them 50
firmly as to hold them to their places even
when the water rises ten and fifteen feet over
them. Posts driven in this way, say sixteen
to twenty feet apart and barbed wire
stretched tightly along them. makes a very
good and permanent fence for tule lands To
prevent burning by tule fires in the fall Of the
year, the tules should be cut a few feet on
either side the fence and burned Such a
fence may be rendered still more permanent
and safe by setting cottonwoods or willows
between the posts and fastening the wire to
these. This VIII make a live and permanent
fence in tie tule lands.