Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-02
bolting.cloth, but in a damaged condition.
What there was left of this mill

bolting.cloth, but in damaged condition.
What there was left of this mill
AFTER THE FIRE
Was moved back to the corner OF Second
and N streets, and set up In building that
had been previously used as hotel. The
owners then purchased two run OF stone OF
General Suffer on his grant. They were
the stone intended for his mill at Br1gh-
ton, and were quaIried out of granite
| quarry near where Folsom now Is. One
run OF these stone was sold to a man by
the name OF G. Goodman, and were by him
| put into mill at about Front and L
streets. The lower stone of the other set
was fitted into the upper Bay State mill
with the stone that had been saved from
the fire. These granite stones all proved
valueless, for the reason that they kept
crumbling off and making flour and meal
| ground by them so gritty that it could not
| be used. So that it appears that had Gen.
eral Suffer completed this Touring mill
enterprise he would have made failure
after ALL 1t was then found that there
were some runs of stone at Bodego, So
mona county, that had been imported for
the purpose of putting them into mill at
that place before the discovery of gold, but
that upon
THE OCCURRENCE OF THAT EVENT
The enterprise, like that of General SUIT
ter's, was abandoned. These stones were
secured, brought to Sacramento overland
and used in both the upper and lower Bay
State mill. Policy & Co. having become the
owners of both. r. D. Carey also had a
| Touring mill running in 1852 on the bank
| of the river where the Pioneer mill now
stands, and we notice by MIR. Norris books
that he bought large quantities of wheat OF
him during October of that year, paying
seven cents a pound for the same. Mr..
| Norris was selling barley at the same time
at four and half and five cents a pound.
| As one of the peculiarities OF the times, we
viii mention here that while he sold barley
at four and half cents at his ranch III
January and February. 1853, he was selling
baled hay at the same time and place at
five cents pound, or 800 per ton. This
was caused by the destruction of so much
hay by the rains in the previous Novem-
| Der, as mentioned. The next Touring mill
built in Sacramento was by George Wilson
| & Sons, on the bank of the American river,
| Just north of the present location of the
railroad shops. and then followed the Lom-
bard mills on I street, both of which were
built in 1858.
| INTRODUCTION OF FRUIT, GRAPES, ETC.
There were a few fruit trees set cut in
different portions of the State as early as
| 1851, and perhaps a few in 1850. E. f.
| Aiken planted few in the former year on
the Sacramento river. David and John
| Hoagland planted a few in the same year
above Washington, that had been sent out
to Washington Meek by his brother, In
| 1852, G.. G. Briggs commenced his large
orchard on the Yuba river, above Marys
vile, and the same year or the year follow
ing Beach & Sheppard made beginning of
| the New England orchard and nursery,
about four miles below Marysville. The
first year that Mr.. Briggs peach trees bore
any considerable crop-lS55-he sold all
his peaches on the trees, the purchaser to
| pick them, at eight cents piece. In 1856,
| besides an extensive bearing orchard, he
had in nursery 200, 600 peach trees, l6. 600
plums, ), 600 cherries, Is, 900 pears, 5000
apples, and 1000 apricot and nectarines,
and the Messrs Beach & Sheppard had
about an equal number. The Thompson
Brothers, at Suscol, Napa county, COM
menced their orchard in February, 1858,
and in 1856 their orchard contained rs 600
trees, comprising $50 varieties of fruit
and for
THE QUANTITY OF FRUIT PRODUCED,
And the profits of sales from the orchard,
they were probably ahead of all other
orchardists in the State. A. ?. Smith &
Brother were among the first and the
largest nurserymen of Sacramento county
| They located on the American river, two
and half miles from Sacramento, in 1850,
and at once commenced fruit orchard,
an ornamental flower garden, a fruit and
flower nursery, a vegetable garden and a
vegetable seed garden. The production
and sale OF vegetables was depended upon
to keep the receipts of the place equal to
the necessarily large expenses before the
| fruit should come into bearing. The aver
age expenses of the establishment during
the years 1856, 1857 and 1855 was So, 600
per month and In the latter year they had
ninety acres in cultivation in the various
departments of the business. Their orchard
! then contained of bearing trees l,5C0
peach, $500 pear, 240 plums, pol april
cots, 1863 cherry, 260 apple, 40 necta-
rines, 8, 500 grape vines, $50 pomegranate,
filbert and ounce, 200 currants gooseber-
ries, strawberries four acres, and raspberries
two acres. In the nursery they had 81, 000
trees and vines of the above varieties OF
fruit, besides more than 1000
| ORNAMENTAL AND TIMBER TREES.
They had in their flower garden and house
more than Il, 600 roses and 2 600 camellias.
In their seed department they had pro-
duced for four years, commencing in
1854 up to 1858, on an average,
over 5000 pounds year, which had
been sold at an average of So per pound.
Up to the year 1858 there had been but
very few grapes planted in the State, ex.
cept what had been planted at the Missions
in Los Angeles, San Diego and Sonoma
counties. So rapidly were the vines planted
between that year and 1856 that in the
latter year there were l, $40, l34 in the
State, and vines were to be found in every
county but nine. Two years later, in
1855; the number of vines planted was
8, 954, 54S. As bit of local grape history we
will mention that in 1852 A. Leonard, Of
this city, being then located on ranch
down the SACRAMENTO river, bought four
grape vines of Colonel J. L. F. Warren, who
| imported lot of vines from Boston. One
of these vines proved to be of the Muscat
| OF Alexandra variety. The next year he
gave cuttings from this vine to his neigh
| bors while IN Hollister. From these white
Muscat cuttings they soon mad one of the
best and most profitable vineyards In the
State. These seed cuttings, in fact, laid
the foundation of very good fortune for
their owners, and from them numerous
other vineyards in this vicinity were early
stocked with this excellent and profitable
grape.
AGRICULTURE FROM 1853 ON.
During the closing months of 1852 and
the first part of 1853 the weather was
stormy, and the water in all of the creeks
and rivers of the State was high. In fact,
all the low lands of the interior valleys
were covered with water, presenting the
n appearance of vast inland sea. There
I were no levees then, and the water poured
over the banks of the Sacramento on either
side, in almost unbroken sheets, from Free
mont to Steamboat slough. Wholesale
business in Sacramento was almost entirely
transferred to points on the American river,
respectively, for the time being, called
Hoboken and Norristown, and the ferry
boat Beta was pretty busy during January
!