The San Francisco call., 1895-07-19

pearances confirm the assertion. The daily
receipts of fowls and eggs at our City mar
! ketS prove the Importance and extent OF
the industry yet in its infancy at Bollnas.
Still another advantage equal to If not
greater in importance than those men
toned is that of soil and its consequent
effects on the crops and vegetation. This
whole vicinity, both valleys and plateaus,
is blessed with a soil rich beyond compari-
son, being composed originally of adobe,
that dark and wonderfully fertile but stub
born and tenacious deposit, which, when
properly treated, will produce results sur
prising to agricultural experts. Nature
here has assisted, or kindly undertaken for
man, to furnish not only the rich adobe
soil, but the necessary sand, mountain
wash and abundant moisture, with which
the once tenacious adobe is blended, form
ing rich, most prolific and easily worked
soil
All grains and vegetation may be raised
here In quantity proportionate only to the
planting. The richness of the soil is
abundantly proven by the acres and acres
of wild mustard, which grows to such
majestic size as to permit of the Scriptural
| assumption, "a substantial roost for the
fowls of the air. Nature has been kind
and provident in its adornment of the
hills and has carpeted them with mantle
that vies with the rainbow in splendor and
with complete assortment of the flora
peculiar to the coast. Here are masses of
lupin, beautifully edged with the golden
Poppy; acres of goldenrod, relieved by
the delicately beautiful wild violet, and
other com mbinations of color and texture
beyond the power of man to describe or to
sufficiently appreciate.
| A few years ago some thrifty cottager,
proposing if possible, to adorn his hillside
| site, planted around his home small cut
| tings of Cloth of Gold, Banksia, Jacque-
minot and La Marque roses and left them
| there to weather the winter storms If they
would. What was his surprise the next
year to find his cottage all but covered
| with roses of magnificent growth unheard
of or dreamed of by the planter. Nowhere
! in the State will be found spot more pro-
| life in roses than at Bolinas when little
| attention is given to their planting. The
| writer testifes to a cutting from year old
| Jacqueminot stalk roses six inches across
| from petal to petal, of an Incompatible
form and richness of color Truly this is
the favored spot for roses or flowers of any
kind.
| The visitor going to Bolinas is assured
| beyond question of a delightful stay in the
| enjoyment of most salubrious and equa-
bic climate. panorama OF landscape
! the equal of which is not to be found in
this land, the finest sea bathing nearly the
| year TOuUu, convenient anu
! fishing, either on the reef or in the creeks
of the nearby canyons, or for eels and tur-
ties in the estuary, or by sailing on the
bay, or tramp or ride on the miles of sill
very beach, and home to the quaintest of
hotels for a dinner of speckled beauties of
the brook, chicken la Maryland with
cream, and abundance of eggs, fresh at
sundown. Such was the pleasing expert.
ence of the writer who was permitted an
absence from buSinpSS for fOrtV-ei ph
hours. And such trip of equal pleasure
will, with the construction of railroad to
Bolinas, be possible to thousands in a
single days outing, and at nominal cost
of dollar or two.
LIE Roy G. Harvey & Co. have secured
rights of way and have made necessary
surveys for a railroad to be constructed
over nearly the described route from Rich
ardson Bay to Bolinas, and contractors are
now examining the same preparatory to
contracting for the work.
w. n. DIMMICK.