El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-12

In q few short years the native mus
tang mai been supplemented by high
er grade OF horses. Tne same rule APP
piled To cattle, so that the long, bony,
sharp-hOrned wild steer OF The west
eventually gave way TO the Durham,
tue HOlsteln, tue Jersey aud Other su
perlOr species. Inc same may be said
Ut The sneep and the swine, the former
increasing In size and becoming more
valuable because of the better quality
of wool, wnile the California ''tule-
roOter's' snOut was shortened and his
hams made larger through his as
sOciating with the imported Birk-
shire.
But the California colony having re-
ceived new blood and new Idea.
through the influx of ma people from
various st ctiOns of the giUbe, coutInue d
experimenting. a Spaniard brought
with hum a few twIss OF olives, q
Frenchman brought or sent to his ma
tive ianu for his IavOrlte grape vine, a
Yankee sent TO Delaware for some pits
OF those delicious peaches he mad learn
ed to like in mis- boy mood days and with
his inventive Ingenuity assisted in max
ing valuable experiments In The line OF
agriculture.
La the meantime, some one who had
become disguised with the favour,
taste, and weevlly condition OF the
Chile flour which formed the principal
ingredient in the pioneer hapjack, sent
somewhere for some grains of wheat,
sowed il and to mis- utter surprise that
cereal did well, even in what to him
sean ed a sun-baken desert in the west.
But he did Lot stop at that, ne proceed
ed further and sOwed barley, corn and
oats. Primitive mills were erected,
the ripened barley and wheat were TAX
en- there ind ground, the former soon
found a rsaly market because OF the
heavy leaning then In vogue between
the heads of navl alton Anu the mining
centers, while the latter although half
ground anu nalf sifted was so much
superior to the imported article that
California flour, imperfect as it Was,
5000 had the call and another industry
was set on foot. This industry in turn
created demand for more cereals,
parL.cula ly wh-at, anr BIS q result
tners of, the Vast stock ranges, then ex-
i tiog, were gradually turned into
wheat fields.
Still the exper.menter continued
with his work. The olive tw.g from
Spain and the grapevine from France
Lad tasen root and set the presses l.
work, while the Yankees peaches il a
dried CT fres state were furnish ,nR
the ''stuffia" for The miners pie. And
still the experiment Went ON, vast
tracks were III ade into orchards, canals /
were excavAtei, tn, water taken from
les natural channels and spread upon
the desert. So-t aud Central Amer |
lea and the Med terraneau were invaa |
ed by the inveter tie Californian anC |
the golden fruits from those sections
found Judgement in our soil, ano
strange as it may appear the expecta-
tions of the most sanguine were more
than met by the excellence of The
orange and lemon produced in their |
new home. 1t required much time and |
evidence to conviLce the easterner that |
the California production was palat- |
able, but eventually he awOke to a re |
alization of their excellency and again |
another experiment had proven sue
cess.
But this is not all, for in several por-
tiors OF the state, particularly In the
Santa Clara valley, near Gilroy, tobac-
Co is being successfully raised, while in
the low lands OF the San Joaqu n ana /
S icramento rivers some efforts are be-
ing made to raise rice and hemp, aud
ia the foot hills of the Sierra Nevada,
are being made with teal