Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-12

Morgan ranch, with a fine cherry orchard
and not far away is the young orchard o
| c. r. Hill and the Pat Hall farm. Or
these places all kinds of vegetables ar
growing and look fine. Potatoes yiel,
well, and command good prices, mountair
grown potatoes always commanding from
quarter to half cent per pound NOR,
than potatoes shipped from lower alli
tudes With suitable land, Il little waite
for irrigation, and some labor, almost an,
one can raise a profitable crop. For In
stance, widow, owning choice piece o
land and a free water-right, raised ant
marketed $500 worth of potatoes. the sol,
! product of her own labor IN single sen
son. As an evidence of the extraorgliaar,
| yield which this crop sometimes makes. N
Manion states, over his own signature. thai
during the summer of 1884, he "raised, By
actual measurement at the rate of eight
tons of potatoes to the acre, the potatoe.
! from the given tract being weighed sepa.
rately" If he marketed his crop at tbs
market price of potatoes, II cents pei
pound, it would seem that this tuber is
almost as profitable, at times, as the Bart
lett pear.
SHRUB PLANTS.
In all these places garden shrubs flour
ish. and in every dooryard on every street
flowers are sending forth their fragrance.
In the yard of j. F. kidder, of Grass Val
ley, are over 100 different kinds of ever
blooming roses, besides other plants in
such vast varieties that catalogue would
scarcely suffice to name them In the
midst of a beautifully terraced, grass
covered lawn which surrounds the
house is fountain lake with concrete
border in which sport half hundred
brilliant goldfish, shaded from the sun by
the broad leaves and blossoms of pond
lilies that float on its surface. With the
elegantly appointed house of modern and
handsome architectural design, stu
ated in the midst of such superbly
beautiful grounds, Mr.. Kidder demon
strates the possibility of a foot-hill home
with surroundings that may well cause the
unfortunates living east of California to
admire with envy. What Mr.. Kidder has
accomplished in the way of plant-growth
can be equally reproduced on any of these
lands, titled with the same degree of in
telligent direction.
FIG TREES DO WE'LL
Also throughout this section, the place
most trying being in the higher attitudes
Mr.. Kreiss, living near the summit be-
tween Grass Valley and Chicago Park, at
an altitude approaching $500 feet, has fig
trees that produce two crops of the finest
fruit every season.
J. B. White, adjoining Chicago Park,
gathered last year from peach trees
planted in the winter of 1886, 100 twenty
tive-pound boxes of ripe fruit, He has
recently planted 1000 young pear trees.
and some trees planted in 1887 are now in
full bloom, but of course will not be al
lowed to bear this year.
On May I'd green peas, grown without
irrigation, were served at Mr.. Whites for
dinner.
One-half mile south of Colfax, J. B.
Whitcomb has twelve acres Of vines of diff
ferent varieties, from which he netted on
last years crop a sum in excess of $4,000.
This is fair average of what any of these
well cared for, may be expected
to do.
WITHIN A RADIUS OF THREE MILES OF
CoLFAX
Are about forty persons engaged in the
fruit business, and over a thousand acres of
orchard and vineyard present a showing
at any poiut. Just to the east,
in the Cape Horn section, are fifteen or
twenty parties preparing land and planting
apples and pears, and propose making
speciality of that fruit. Each one has
from 40 to 100 acres, but not clearing
more than 10 or 20 acres of it at time
Thus far people have confined themselves
wholly to grape cultivation, but now all
kinds of fruit is being planted, and do
ing we'll. Everything is raised without