, 1885-02-10
CERES AND POMONA.
CALIFORNIA; GRAIN AND FRUIT AT
THE EXPOSITION.


l-Oarth's~ New Orleans letter.
Ceres went wild with rapture when she
met her Californian lover. In his arm was
the tawny strength OF hills. 10 his eyes the
tender light Of the westsring sun. AT his
feet the streams cana chanting, from the
Rookie. in his voice rang the echoes Of great
solitude&
Look at tho corn towering tsico your
height ab1vs you and the sorghum and the
straight young shoots Of the black Turkish
fig sprung fourteen foot in ono year without
irrigation. Also great clusters Of Egyptian
corn fed to cattle and looking like nothing
so much as dried everlnstings; and long
slender shoots Of rnmle, out OF which paper
is made.
~Any other wood you ma ke paper Off
"Oh, yes. This quaking aspen. park and
core, and Of the fr-chiehy wrapping and
newspaper lisa big industry AMI there's
money in It,"
He picked up a bunch OF dried herbs.
This" said he, us alfalfa, or what you
would call lucerne. Where we irrigats we
get Eve crops Of it a year. On my own
place at Santa Clara we have made cheese
every day OF the year for five years. feeding
this to the cows. In Santa Clara contfn-
usd the en- husiastic dweller there, Awe have
l,4o0 acres devoted to garden seed alone for
foreign markets. and in our remarkable eli
mate they never discolor or shrink
Hers is an immens, representative OF the
foundation OF the beet sugnr industry, weigh
ing eighty-four pounds. A great big purple
dubious beet The process takes but thirty
six hours, and the knobby vegetable yields
from 10 TO IA per cent. of sugar. 1 thought
shoulln't escape without encoun-
tering the Inevitable pumpkin. Here he Is,
yellow and abnormal as usual, a ticket bear
ing witness to the fact that be comes Ola
seed planted in May and weighs just is1
pounds. The potatoes are marvellous. For
winter diet the vegetarian Of California un-
earth a potato AMI pickles a portion OF a
squash Here Is a monstrosity Of the latter
order. weighing 222 pounds. Pyramids OF
vines from every county in California, bot
ties Of olives and OF olive oil, made only
there in America, tempting boxes OF crys-
tallized fruit, pomegranates and figs am
balmed under glass. a new and prominent
industry; jars upon jars Of honey, amber
and lucent
Greatly to the malediction of your sundry
other peoples correspondents the exhibits
are arranged TO the credit Of the counties
Everywhere Is an embarras de richesse, but
there Is no concentration, no system, no
focus Dropping over the side Of one countyAs
display l found a small, graceful branch that
seemed to be covered with dried hickory
nuts. It WINS the famous vegetable ivory;
the nuts were like bullets and the little
branch weighed as much as a 5-year-old
child Nuts. nuts, nutsi Do you know that
most Of your after-dinner exercise with the
nut cracker Is supplied to you by California;
Here, from one county, are ranged 100 va
rieties OF nlmonds in boxes and branches
teeming in fruition- They don't pick nuts
IN California, they shovel them up.
vlo fruftq ara on exhibition IN ho~ff~.,l-
tural hall, but abundant specimens in alco-
hol are there Japanese plrms rs big as
apples. grape clusters hat Bacchus would
stagger under, pears three and four pounds
in weight, peaches, tomato cherries, nee
tarines-nlasl they wore all In jars, and the
jars were scaled, as is, therefore, your cor
respondents eloquence. OF one delicious
fruit ! may speak experimentally. 1t wasn't
In n jar, and wouldn't "keep" under any
circumstances, even il IL hadn't been there.
Hear my justification. 1t was a persimmon,
looked like n ripe tomato and tasted like
ambrosia. Here is a fanciful erection in
decd. A richly-veined pavilion OF marble,
exquisitely designed in many colors and
decorated with clustering grapes and vines
and quaint devices A Spanish Indian boy
in variegated garb presides over this charm
Ing interior, welding a huge feather fan.
1t Is beautiful, 1t is elegant, 1t Is chasts, and
1t is-soapi The man who made IL made
half a million ut the same time. Every
thing is soap-grapes, pillars, and alex
cept the boy, whose acquaintance with the
purifying article is presumably limited
California has forgotten that she ever
had a mine" said Joaquin Miller the other
day, speaking OF her manifold resources.
Truly, this does not look like it Gold
creeping and turning about the QUARTS In
1aIiCnf "a Aatuf1no ~ Lee 49, 49, - -
exquisite handicraft-silver bullion-but for
our dear old mothers mineral treasures let
US go to Nevada Just a glance at Califor-
fornia's downy blankets and l~ustrous silks
made by Chinese labor, and we cross the
state line and stand in the realm Of the Com.
stock The richest gold and silver bearing
quartz is the most unpretentious. That
homely, ragged lump in one corner OF the
case is worth all OF its shining neiehbors.
Gold in nuggets, in quartz, in grains, in
boxes, I'm bottles, in bags No silver grains.
Silver corrodes, perishes, has not tho endur-
ing qualities Of the true metal, and Is never
found ground down by heaving rocks and
raging waves In shining specks amid tho
sand
Malachite green and beautiful porphyry
ronglomerate. sapphire, cinnabar-quick-sil-
ver-green, and the blue carbonate Of copper
-malachite and azurits-on silver that pro
duces 5000 10 the ton; silver, turquoise.
and garnets firmly imbedded in slats-these
are some Of Nevada's mineral wonders.
Geologic changes arc marvelously rapid
here. We are shown sandstone formed in
twelve years with a wooden wedge and a
nail in it Wood petri1ed in fifteen years
studded with nails. Here Is a wonder with
something pathetic in tia petrifed birds
nest and eggs. Oh, sad bird, you chirped
your last note and turned up your claws to
the sky a long time ago, but your tiny, ten
derby fashioned home and unmatched
hedgeling have Joined the great testimony of
tho ages Surely the most piteous little
tribute ever laid in the relentless grasp OF
that stern maiden, science.
Plaster casts Of the famous men and ele-
plants tracks, found twelve to twenty feet
below the surface In sandstone excavations,
are here The animals feet that walked up
right, whatever It was, wore twenty 1.-TWO
inches long and eight and ons-half inches
wide; the elephants tracks are twenty -four