Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-01

have produced souasaes of good aualit,
weighing 260 pounds each. 500 pounds. il
one instance, having been raised on sin
, gle vine. We have grown cabbages weigh
ing 80 pounds; beets weighing L Is pounds
watermelons weighing ITO pounds; .ant
carrots, turnips and other vegetables O.
corresponding size.
} The number OF fruit trees in the State i:
roughly estimated at 100000. divided as
follows: Apple, 2, 100000; peach, l, 200 900
pear, 100000; plum and prune, 100000
cherry. 100000; apricot, 100000; orange
, 100000 lime and lemon, 100000. Aside
, from this estimate there are several hun
dred thousand fig trees, olive, ounce and
! other fruit-bearing trees, not to mention a
vast number of currant and berry bushes
, of every description. The fruit crop is
never wholly gather d, large quantities
going to waste every year. Some of the
surplus is dried and canned, and thus saved
from loss.
The horned cattle of California now num-
Der SOC, 900 head-one-third of the number
in the State thirty years ago; but those
remaining are of improved breeds con-
+ siderable portion being kept for dairy pur-
poses, whereas formerly cattle were only
valued for their hides and tallow.
, Dairying is extensively conducted in Ca
ifornia. For number of years the pro-
duc.ion of butter alone has been estimated
at IL 900, 600 pounds, and of cheese at 4, O0O,-
600 pounds.
1t is estimated that there are 5000, 900
sheep in the State The wool clip is APP
proximately 100000 pounds, of an esti-
mated value of SS,000,0O0.
Grapes and Vince Certain extensive
areas in California are specially adapted to
the culture of the grape. The wines are
not only good, but the product is generous.
Mr.Wetmore, a California authority on the
subject, estimates that III 1885 10000 acres
of vines were in bearing. The vintage for
1881 was 100000 gallons; in 1882 it was
100000 gallons; in 1888, $500, 600 gallons
| have not convenient data for more recent
production.
Honey.-There are LOCO bee-keepers in
| tE,s State, and 100000 colonies of bees
Each colosy produces 200 pounds of honey
annually, or 100000 pounds in all. OF
wax each colony yields five pounds'or an
aggregate of 100000 pounds. The value of
the wax, at % cents per pound, amounts to
| Sl25,000 The honey is of the best quality,
and is largely exported to Germany, Glas-
gov, Paris and Liverpool the bulk of the
export going to the latter port. Most of
the honey so exported is first extracted
from the comb.
All of the agricultural products of Cali
fornia were well represented at the EXPOSE
ton, the effect of which must and will be
felt, and will in all probability cause immi-
/ grafton of the better classes to our State.
San Francisco, our principal city, is des-
tined to become one of the largest and most
nipoftaiit III Tue Woiiu. from Acapulco,
III Mexico, 10 the straits OF fuc'i, inere Is
no otner perfect harDor: Here snip can
De sailed III without pllot. oan FRANCISCO
Is as wen situated ior IL ihaluiactufihg as
ior a coihmerciai port. Inc climate Is such
tiiat iaoorers anu mechanics, artisahs, ETC,
can WORK every gay IN the year without
discomfort, there oelng no extremes OF heat
AID cold a NOBLE naVigaple pay without
lmpedimen'S, extends east ana south many
miles from san FRANCISCO. Inc shores OF
the pay are already settled, ana villages ana
garden GROUNDS extend on every Sioe; 10
the east lie the Wesiern ana Middle states
and Territories; to the south, Mexico, Cen
tral ana south America 10 the north, Ore
Son, washington territory, BRUSH column
pa and Alaska 10 the west ana beyond
the Golden gate, Is the broad racine,
roadway 10 Emma, Japan, the indies ana
Ausualia, ana 10 the Islands OF the South
seas.
HISTORICAL.
Events resulting from the advance of
civilization, within the historic period,
have opened slowly but continuously to-
ward the settlement of the American con-
] llIlPnt. w ildl may nave HdDDtIltti DSloIt
the birth of history is unknown to us, or
we only CLEAN traces of the past from geo.
logical study, and contemplation of silent
ruins left by unknown races. The remains
of the ancient civilizations of Chile and
Peru appear to antedate other American
| chronological records, and have a curious
correspondence to the earliest traces of
human life in Europe and Asia. 1t is
even possible, and perhaps probable that
Il. = h fL,.la -
| iZation, and that Asia and Europe were
peopled from America by way of Behring's
| Straits, in the north, or still more likely,
that Doatloads of people drifted across the
| Pacific before the trade winds from the
coast of Peru, as ably argued by Charles
Wocott Brooks, of San Francisco, in a
valuable paper read before the California
Academy of Sciences Be this as il may,
in compiling brief history of California
we must contine our Investigations within
the bounds of written history.
In an old book e. American Antiquities
and Discoveries in the West" by Josiah
Priest, Albany, 1855, | find a quotation,
showing that in 1871 planter living near
Montevideo, in Uruguay, South America,
found in field a tombstone upon which
Greek characters were inscribed. This
stone was raised, and shield, helmet and
swords were found beneath, and an earth
| erH VESSEL VI AIN pHoio L hO VI S0h iioNiiP
ton, with the exception OF portion,
which was nearly obliterated, translated
dau CO.., of priv KING of Macedonia in
the sixty-third Olympiad Ptolemais 8 50
On the helmet was design representing
Achilles dragging the corpse of Hector
around the walls of Troy In the private
collection of President Soto, or Honduras,
exhibited in the California State Museum
in 1889. a sculptured sphynx was shown.
This would indicate that the ancient peo-
ple of Copan were at least in communica-
ton with those of Europe. The universal
custom of erecting tumuli must have had
a common origin with similar practice in
ancient Europe and Asia.
California although one of the younger
States of the American Union, is old in
history. Seventy eight years before the
Mayfower landed her load of pilgrims in
Massachusetts, and forty-three years before
Sir Walter Raleigh attempted a settlement
ON Roanoke Island, Upper California had
been discovered; and it was settled and mis-
sions established within its borders before
the Revolutiary War.
! Tba Cali forpia first in the