The record-union., 1895-08-23
A SACRAHENIAN DOING NEBRASKA.
The People There Have Good Crops
This Season.
But Box of Sacramento Peaches Sur
prises Them-Many Signing for
the Golden West.

a. w. UpSon OF TINS city, VINO recently
went East for a few weeks travel and
observation, also to visit his old Atlantic
home writes as follows from Elm Island,
Nebraska, under date Of August 10th:
EDS. RECORD-UNION: Leaving Sacra-
mento Thursday, at 1l:40 A. NJ, after
crossing the mountains over into Nevada
| failed, during the daytime, at least, to
see much to attract ones attention until
l reached Shelton Sunday morning and
came out to this beautiful Island, three
miles from the railroad. But here | have
found a great deal to interest me, and
hope to interest others by this letter.
| took walk yesterday with the gen.
| tlsman with whom l AIN stopping, s.. }.
| Peck, over his tine ranch of two hundred
and twenty acres. He has one hundred
acres in corn that will at least go fifty
bushels to the acre. 1t is the finest field
| | ever saw. The ears are so large and
| long they would almost touch each other
across the rows. and good many meas
| ure eighteen inches in length. l am GO
| ing TO have some of the seed to give to
some good, enterprislng ranchers in Cali
| fOrnla.
Crops of all kinds in Nebraska are GER
| teinly good, although l am told that por-
tions of the State have hardly any crops,
and one would think SO to see the num-
DER H0ES uGllS 1OOAld8 lOI WI n d1d
noticing the trains of immigrant wagons
going West all the time. Yet, notwith-
| standing the shortage OF crops in the past,
| and the suffering caused thereirom,
! find prices are not high for farm products.
| Potatoes are the SAME as in California;
| butter ten and fifteen cents per pound;
| eggs eight to ten cents per dozen, with
grain and other farm products at about
the same range of prices.
| was fortunata 4QOIOh to have a box OF
/ California's fine peaches with me, and il
| did me great deal of good to show these
| people that are not fortunate enough to
| be able to produce such fruit as is raised
in the vicinity of Sacramento what they
| are missing in not having a nice frul,
ranch near Sacramento. l think L will
| have number of good ranchers here and
| in this immediate vicinity so much inter-
ested that they will at least visit our IA
| vored spot, and, l hope, locate there. Ii
| you could have seen the surprise depicted
on their faces, and have beard the ex'
pressions of wonder at the size of oul
! peaches-to say nothing about the color
| you, with me. would not be surprised be-
| fore many months roll around to see Elm
Island and vicinity well represented In
California. | only wish l had more ad'
vertising matter that would talk and
| show up our country after L leave.
| | saw one Of the greatest curloslties on
| the place l am stopping that it has been
| my good fortune to see tor many day,
and that is crab-apple tree Loaded down
| with fruit. But one cluster in particu.
lar interested me. l. was a cluster OF
| four or five growing right on the trunk oi
| the tree, with not the sign of branch
| connected with il, and people flock here
for miles to see for themselves this queer
! freak of nature.
The country surrounding this place is
very level, and almost as far as the eye
can reach you can see great fields OF bar
ley and hay. The small grain crop has
been harvested, and people are now busy
| threshing and storing their wheat, oats
rye, etc. This island is quite a feeding
| ground in the winter for live stock. The
Swift Packing Company and others find
stock feeding, and thousands of sheep
and other stock are fattened almost every
winter on this island.
To-day. for the first time in many years
l am going to try my hand at hunting
prairie chickens. Although l don't all
ticinate that | am going to overstook the
! market, / will endeavor to make noise
and scare some OF those desirable birds.
l shall resume my trip on East to Chi
caco, Boston and New York about the
10Th or 10th, when I hope to write some
thing interesting regarding the country
| pass through, the sights L see, and a
the same time advertise the State of Cali
fornia as q whole, but more particular,
Sacramento and vicinity. That, of course
would naturally come first, for 1t Is fas
approaching my ideal of city, and 1t
surroundings are such that 1t doesn'
seem possible to do other wise than inter
est some, if not great many, enough t.
induce them TO locate with US.