Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-28

diatey sought for. II was the season Of
low water, and mining was slack. Upon
inquiring for work he was told that the
supply Of water would not warrant paving
regular wages, and rather than be idle halc-
wages were accepted. He picked and SHOW
eled earth and gravel in water knee-deep,
and trundlet the wheebarrow day after day
I'LL high water, lste in the autumn, ended
mining for the year. Then came pros
pectiug, with the packing of blankets
through CLUTCHES ana over hills and noun
iaias, varied with jobs of work wherever
and whenever il could be obtained during
winter season III the mountains. In 1858
he worked for miner on Feather river,
and last bought an interest in the min e
on the PAy-as- you-make-it" plan. He
paid Tor this, and bought another interest
IN Tie same mine, and worked there
mining for TWO seasons.
RAPIDLY PASSING INCIDENTS.
In the fall of 1850 he sold out his inter
es:s and returned East, where be was mar
rl.d. In The spring of 1861, with his bride,
he cnnmenced another overland Journey To
California. ami followed the former route
| across the continent. He arrived III Cali
fornia i'll August, and found work on a
ranch in Colusa county chopping cord
wood. After time he bought the place on
credit. and paid for it from the crops which
his hard labor produced, only to find. at the
end of lawsuit, that it WIS grant land, +"
and that another party held the better title
Gracefully accepting the inevitable, in 1868,
almost eLn pry-handed, he S ruck out for the
White river mines, where he worked for
miners wages. proSpected, discovered
mines, aI1 workei them till in 1871 he had
accumulated 81 /, 000. which, to him, seemed
To be an independent fortune. With this
sum he thoaght he could return TO Califor-
| MIA, buy laid aud sit in the shade and see
his hired iabUrers work the soil, and have
an ample income for bis family
SETTLEMENT IN suIsUN VALLEY.
| He bought his land in Suisup valley.
and, rich as it has proved to be, he found
| that IN order to make a living at grain
! raising he must quit the shade tree, pull off
| his Coat, and take hold of the pillow himself
| At The end of the year he found that he
! had worked just Us hard as when he labored
| IN the mines for wages, and that he had no
! more money i'll bank Than then. He began
| 70 doubt whether $iI 600 invested in land,
/ devoted to grain growing, was such great
fortune after all. Dp0n the place which he
/ had bought there were an old family or
ehard and vineyard. IN the orchard there
(; were five Bartlett pear trees Of bearing age,
which bad annually q large crop of fruit,
tIs.t Was III ueuldU0 ~ SOOu pIlCeS- he
| realized as much as SIS some years from
the crop of these trees. This was
REVELATION TO THE kEw FARMER,
/ For these five trees, with small care and
| labor, had made a greater net return than
the ssaie number of acres of land in wheat
would have done. He went TO planting
more tress, much against the advice Of his
neighbors, who could see no market for
| fruit beyond the small amount consumed
/ at home. E.e was not able financially 10
| plant on q large scale, and it was not till
| 1870 that he ksd planted all of the 10
acres Of fruit lsnd of his original purchase
| To the season of fSSi-s2 Mr.. Hatch con-
| fined himself to this 10 acres. In that SEA-
son he bought more land and planted il,
and be has continued each year to buy and
plant, till he now has 500 acres of orchard
! in one body
THIS GREAT ORCHARD
Has eco acres of Bartlett pear trees, 30
acres OF peach trees, 20 acres in apricots, 10