The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1882-01-18
YuBA CTY, CALrFoRNIA,
December %, 1881.

livert your readers again for few CT
minutes, this time willingly, as before &C
| was unconcious Of the honor about - .
to be conferred upon me. r.
The people of California represent 81
examples of every "race, color and v
previous condition Of servitude," to - -
greater extent. probably, than any s
6ther State 10 the Union. One sees on \
one side man from "away down IN
Maine;" on the other he looks into the :
almond eyes of citizens Of the Celes- :
tial Empire. Here is friend who ]
sings, as he works, "Jef Davis rides ]
foe bay horse Abe Lincoln rides a
mule" while yonder is another who Is
always hummiDg, well hang Jetf ]
Davis to a sour apple tree" A dit
ference equally great exists in the hab-
its and manner Of life among the
people. A friend tells nae this, which
illustrates one phase of California
life He was agent for machinery
firm of San Francisco. His employ.
ers sent him to certain man to sell
him tbreashers. He found the man
with seven children, wife, dogs, etc,
living in a house with one room below
and one above. No barns on the
ranch. nothing that evidenced COM
fort or prosperity. He sold the mau
two threshlng machines and three
Is horse power engines to u4H on his
own place, and received his coin, some
= $4,000. Such people are found mostly
. ia the southern part of the State. lhe
people of this, the northern part are
D very similar, except that they are, not
= homogeneous. to the people OF the east
D There are few haHlets, and 1t seems to
: me, no neighborhoods in this country
q The country about here is one OF the
9 garden spots of the earth. 1t is adaP'
y ted to almost any kind of busbandry
" Wheat is produced as the main crop
" It yields from thirty to sixty bushels
;" per acre. Grapes grow luxuriously
" and yield in quantities that astonlsf
~ an Eastern man. The vines produc
y two crops each year, the second beint
" inferior in quality and quantity. Bot
wine and raisin grapes can be raise'
we'll. Raisin grapes pay best, one ma
of my acquaintance having cleare
$40 600 in one year from abou
ign forty acres of muscatelles. FruI
ry, such as apricots, figs and prune
pay very largely on the investmen
les from 500 to $500 per acre. The Ian
,ca 10 ali these valleys is aliuvial, VII
st. the rivers on the ridges, and a persc
,tal driving away from the river dr'v
erv down instead of up. To sum up wit
ms the rate of taxation which is borne
,llv the people may give the best idea
,ora their resources. 1t is only 1t P
,ox cent. on a full valuation.
for. And now about California's cur'
two the Mongolian. They infest eve
lv branch of business always III
vIl lower and more menial par
row They have their part OF ca
! town called Chinatown. They hudt
together in their houses like she
p'' They carry on their gambling ore
iale' tions openly on the streets, usua
'o5 among themselves. The avera
'n'e' Chinaman, when you ask him wi
're'' he is going back to China, will 81
ur"' "By.n. by me gamble, get him mol
lve'' enough, go China" So he gets
IAa'0 ,, ten or twenty dollar piece and st'
oble, W. ,or - win his ,
iV' p" home, and not unfrequently sacce'
""S AS Bret Harte says: "For ways
i'i"" are dark, aud tricks that are Vi
"'"'' the Heather Chinee is peculiar. !
"'e have monopoly of the washing
gardening business. Very few ran
o. ers raise any garden produce. II
5 en- land is cot so we'll adapted to 1t
"a. what are called the sloughs. IL
day are old bayous which no longer ca
Ada water away from the river as forme
Ian The Cinnamon rent, paying about
Lucy per acre. and there carry on t
AnOx, gardening.