Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-04

sun valley that season. and succeeded in rasiag and
harvesting about four tons, and brought it to Sac
rameuto TO have it stored unit; there might be sale
for it. He had expended his last dollar in trans
porting it u Sacramento TO learn that not house
could he nd engaged N storage business that could
or dared-as barley had become perfect dead
weight-to receive his bari without cash In advance
for storage fees He offered them barley Al their own
price Tor storage fast as storage fees became due
even It Ave or SIX cents. but was refused he then
came TO me and made the offer, saving that he
could not afori to sell for less than eight or ten
cents; but said, "You must remember if You stored
it long enough to get that price, storage fees VIII
eat it all up He glOonily replied, !" Yes; ses
it." again said, 81 can't buy your barley at any
price on a falling market, only what can sell the
same day; and neither have the heart 10 charge
you storage. And you declare that You viii not sel
unless il rises 10 al least one third more than II IS
now quoted at. Therefore, as we each understand
the other perfectly bring on your barley, |
viii make the use Of il lying in storage, apparently
stock on hand fer me, and your storage lees 70
balance each other will rot allow sack Of it to
be sold Cntl you order il sold, snd mark the price
with your own hand and In order 70 make il per
fecy legal business transaction, when the barley IS
Id. and we come to settle. perhaps SIN months or
q year hence YOU must allow TO charge you ten
cents per sack commission, which Will amount TO
about eight or ten dollars instead Of eating up the
whole pile OF barley, worth somewhere nom $500
to 81 200" He seeinod as happy as king, ard i'm
medately brought in his barley, and IN four or five
days from that time the great FIRE Of The ID Of
November 1859, aud swept his barley from exist.
CllCe, lalQ lle ClkN IN AS4itSr SNN i~AA "a
financial gloom over both State and nation. and
many thousands in all lands yet grooming uader
the terrible severity Of the shock. felt very sad
over Mr.. Cheeshrough's misfortune, bnt could not
help him, as i WAS nearly fioored myself.
Two OBJECTS have in view in thus attempting 10
so particularly detail the last named events as wit
messed in 1852. The first is 10 give TO the friends Of
the deeply lamented Mr.. Cheesbrough history Of
this painfully interesting scene they may not have
heard Of tefore. The second is 70 give ali the light
can upon the sufficiently known ability, thirty
years ago, for tins to become great agricultural
State, and also all the light can upon the COD
Run mining trespass case being tried in Sscra-
mento, SO that il may be decided upon ITS true
merits AID not because ten thousand suits that We
have interest in Rave been decided this, that, or
some other way. Fifty thousand citizens OF Cali
forna believed in 1850 that this State had all the
elements cf great agricultural State. Two hun
dTe1 Thousand cit zeus and miners most firmly be-
heved it in 1851 Five hundred Thousand IN 1872
and when the fire OF the I'd OF November occurred,
millions unsn millions all over thc wo ID positively
knew it. They knew that tbousards OF tons OF
Cal for las growth o. cereals and every variety Of
vegetables were burned up in the city at that tire
Potatoes iutabscas, beets, parsniPs carrots, onions
cabbaes lettuce rRdishes, vans, or sweet potatoes,
turniDs (some articles admit on y in sample guam
uties) these and other vegetables millions Of people
know were ali burned UP, and both miners and
citizens were for little while short but long BE-
fore they could be brought from any other state,
they were again toerabie plenty for those that bGd
PLENTY OF money, both in the city and IN
the mines, which could not possibly have been
the case if California had not been an ag-
ricultural State-nOt only an agricultural, but n
great wheat growing State Every human being
that walks the earth with the eyes open, ard knows
that .abes grow out o. the ground OF that has
any agricultural experience, knows that where bar
ley and cats will grow that the fiuest and most
luXuTiant crops Of wheat viii grow; and they also
know that where the vhest viii thus grow they have
the most positive assurance that all vegetables that
man now eats viii grow u may be said in relation
t. presenting plaintiffs testimony, that this thing
has not been done III a corner, nut opcn-hauded 70
all. Ever since lS12 r 1888 sceutlstS OF every ma
tiOnality have iectuTed here and everywhere else
with these Calf Jrut facts and these scientific PrG
cipleS the foundation for their lectures; preach
ers have with most burning eluquepce proclaimed
them from every pulpit; and all our journals re-
plete with editorials Of the most talented, brilliant
an truthful statements with the aid OF exchanges
have penetrated esrths ramotest agricultural bounds
with the fact that California wSs known about the
date above stated, by maj ority OF the worlds
business Inhabitants to be the most lavishy sup
piled with all the materials or native clements for
prolific agricultural development OF any State in
the Union, or in the world. But in the face OF all
these facts, these debris Witnesses allowing their
consciences to be isd by hydraulic interests, Will
testify that they always knew 1t themselves TO be
nothing but mining State, and never heard
it talked of BY others an agricultural
State, until on an average six or eight years
after the be ore named date and still claim it,
der oath, as nothing but mining State. And yet
these sane witnesses, when questioned about how
much they viii lose ii hydraulic mining is prohib-
lied, and Their general reply is; Well We shall
lose our salaries, that's eeran; aid tnen We have
our little homesteals, consisting ef houses orchards
aud gardens where our families live and some Of US
parity support the family by raising our ogn fruits
and general assortment Of vegetables, and by sell
ing some to others and have also been told pri-
yatey that some Of these gardens were commenced
as early as SO or 81 And beiieveit; for | saw in
the winter and spring Of -, when collecting and
closing up business for the purpose Ct bringing my
family here, plenty of these little agricultural begin
uinua all JhrOTpn these lVlrlulic rcoiguS
and every that talked to the subject agreed
with me then that in all pro liability this was des-
tined to be great agricultural State. But now u
few shares OF hydraulic mining stock makes these
same men swear that 1t is nothing but mining
State and that I'll other interests ought to bow to
it. But how about your snug little agricultural
homes in the mountains. Don't they sometimes
give you idea about this being an agricultural
State and about agricultural int being as dear
to the agriculturst as the mining interests are to
the miners oh they don't prove anything; they
are just our little homes that's all" Bat how do
you prove that tins is not an agricultural
State, and prove that it is nothing but a mining
State and that all other interests must lie down and
be covered up with the mining debris. "Why by
the gold that We dig and wash out OF the mountains
Some man has said in public speech that California
was taking out annually nearly twenty millions of
gold. That one fact proves it to be nothing but a
mining State. Only think OF such immense
sum-twenty millions to be spread over the State
every year :" Yes, the honorable millionaire Teys
of San Francisco, one Of the most intelligent and
trustworthy autDOrtlCS IN the state, said that at
Niagara Falls, August 10, 1851 And at the same
time and place he said that CALIFORNIA; agricultural
products for the same year were eighty millions
four times as n:uch. Now if twenty millions in
gold from the mines does so much towards raising
the mining interests, eighty millions in gold for the
same year from agriculture ought 10 elevate the ag
Ticultural interests little But, you see, we are
tired OF hearing anything more about these agri- |
cultural matters The miners had a good thing, !
and if the id farmers had not eaj0iped us but |
held still and let US Alone we would all now have |
plenty OF money" l now bid adeu - the subject |
Of the mining debris respassers with the quotation
.. On, consistency, thou art jewel"
After the fire | bought the steamer Gov |
ernor Dana for company OF SIX, including |
myself, and soon found that Captain soue, |
of San Francisco, one OF the best steamboat |
managers in the State, had bought all the interests
but mine. After proper repairs made. went |
aboard as clerk for while, but finally sold to him
my interest also, and in the summer of 1858 went
East for my family and returned with them on the
9Th OF March, 1854 with stock OF S. 600 worth OF
a most splendid variety of goods for this market
obtained by hyeothecating life policy Of s., 900
from mills, little money and persoJal
credit, and in 1856 L. X. Hammer united his bust
ness with mine, and successfully carried on the
ieweiry, piano and music business, with q general
assortment OF musical Instruments strings and
varieties, and remained very happily together for
ong number OF years, until | withdrew and went
INTO real estate, in which business | am sill en-
gagged when able to do anything. To be little
more particular about three years of the time |
was with Mr.. Hammer was part of the time en-.
gagged in journalism. 1 bosght what was formerly
The San Diego Herald in the glorious days of wit
md editorial briliiancy, Of the lamented Judge
Ames and the lamented Lieutenant Derby, and
moved 1t to several localities, with cha ge of
when necessary, and it is published the Ipyo
in the county CT Inyo, California. 1t
lad cost me first and last many thousands Of dollars
md after adding new job office, 81 900, and many
)ther needed convenieuces loaned it for honest
lire in Aurora Nevada But o, these many years
t has been like the barren fig tree" l shall dig
about it and prune it by and by.
We may set it down certain that when these
proposed improvements are completed, there Will
De more foods, and all the State and nation viii
De benefited thereby. And am glad to know that
,ur ''Got-send" Cen raj Pacific Railroad Company
the men mean) who have always helped everyone
hat they knew needed help, will be relieved OF
ome alental care and excitement, and their roads
benefited By tobsl and perpetual cessation of ter
ible and expensive washoHts. And am happy also
% know that in the future extension of the city to
reeport there will be ample water front for all their
,yer-increasug business, and l request, whether /
i've die, that they be invited to make their selec
ions, without money and without price, - now, ,
md take possession when they please.
was personally acquainted with all these men in
he Sc times that tried mems souls" in California
rom thirty-two years ago to the present time.
Since they built the Central Pac &c road, their
teamers, their cars, their men, their TOOLS their
.ranite rocks and gravel, have always been at the