Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-10-19
SAN FERNANDO BRAVERY.
A coup a. Etar on mules bravery
Rewarded How to Clear off
Brush Sublime oratory from q
Statesman Increase OF the Wheat
Plant

Brush-Sublime Oratory from q
Statesman Increase OF the Wheat
Plant.
B. F. Williams, Esq, Of San Fernando,
ex-District Attorney Of Ventura county,
and who disputes for the supremacy
with Colonel Motif. OF being the states
man Of San Fernando, accompanied by
his wife and family, was in the city
yesterday on business. In the role Of
Cincinnatus he last year planted about
100 acres Of wheat, with Pioneer Par
sons, and made good crop. This year
they will plant about 1000 acres, part OF
it brush land, that turns out such plump
bright kernels of grain. Some Of our
city readers do not know how this brush
land is cleared off in California. Nexl
week they may view the modus operandi
in San Fernando, and behold Statesman
Williams. weight 2s9 pounds, mounted
on huge roller, to which his avoirdu
pois adds an important factor. With
this roller, attached to himself, in other
words, for which he has an attachment
Of himself and six mules, be drives oven
the brush and lays them fiat on the
ground The fallen brush, that grew in
detached lunches, after being prostratcd
by the weight Of the roller and Mr.
Williams, makes continuous brush
carpet all over the ground Fire is ther
set, and it burns up all the brnsh, which
it would not do il set among standing
brush, which grows in separate branches
After the brush is burned off the plow
turns under the roots, which sing
Earth to earth and dust to Dust" as
we'll as the facilities Of the musical
academy Of San Fernando will permit,
and turn up in the future like other
turnips. as good honest mold that may
mold the fortunes Of the wheat growers
OF that lovely valley.
The notice OF the beginning of seed
time in San Fernando recalls tragic
incident that happened last winter ia
that valley, when Mr.. Cincinnatu.
Williams was riding on his gang plow
with six spirited mules, planting wheat,
when Judge Mofiitt came out Of the
mountains with the skin of bear be
had Just killed. The sight of the states
man and jurist, stained with blood,
frightened the mules, and they ran away
with the pillow and its driver. Nothing
but heroic measures could stop those
half dozen running mules. and heroic
measures were applied. The driver
threw himself in front Of the plow, and
the gravity of the danger was arrested
by the gravity of the driver That 2s9
pounds was too much obstruction for the
frisky mules, and they stopped because
the burden was too great for them to
bear.
In commemoration of this miraculous
deliverance public meeting was held al
Jack Barclays hotel, which was attend.
ed by Messrs. Porter, Jenifer, Hubbard,
Wright, Williams, Parsons, Pico, Lopez,
Workman. Smith. Maclay, Moflitt, ely
man and other wheat growers, when
Statesman Moffitt recounted the scenes
Of the day and the escape from appalling
danger by the new process Of gravity,
and introduced resolution of commen.
dationand thanksgiving, and bidding $3.50
month for the services of Statesman
Williams as patent brake on running
mule teams. He closed his felicitops
speech with an extract from his Sacra-
mento address on agriculture, es follows
Those who labor in the earth are the
chosen people of God, if ever he had q
chosen people, whose breasts he has
made his peculiar deposit for substantial
and genuine virtue. It is the focus in
which he keeps alive that sacred fire
which otherwise may escape from the
face of the earth. Corruption of morals
in the mass of cultivators is phenome-
non Of which no age nor nation has fur
nished an example," Then he nerved
his spirit with the strength of the past
and jumped for Solomon, as follows;
"He that tilleth his land shall have
plenty of bread; but he that followeth
after vain persons shall have poverty
enough" This was received with i'm
mense applause, and all the wheat grow
era resolved to SOW 60, 900 acres Of wheat
in 1883 aud 1884. all of which was certi-
fed to by Hubbard L Wright and B. F.
Smith. Flowing viii begin in San Fer
nando next week. and will be continued
to a greater extent than ever before
known.