The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-12-25
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
.HE place to look for Yankees
to-day is in California. His
territory extends from the ST.


central portion of the state.
This california Yankee is probably
the most distinctive personality in the
extensive Western civilization to-day.
He is thoroughly typical of country |
about which little has been said in its
interesting ,entlrety.
The writer recently Travelled cxten- |
sively throughout the Pacific Coast |
New England, and was impressed that |
in many ways it was verltable or
spring of genuine, true-blue Yankee
dom.
Our Yankee of the Golden Gate state |
left New England in the days of 40. He
still tells about his trip Around the
Horn in Wind Jammer," and al
though he has been in his Central Cali
fornia home for fifty years. he is still
a Yankee and a New England Yankee
at that. with nasal twang that would
mark him anywhere. He was one of
a generation that has done big things
wherever they have operated; naturally
he has done some of his biggest things
out here on the Pacific Coast where he
found a new land and the biggest kind
of opportunities for exercising his Wig
orous Yankee spirit. His principal op-
erations have been confined to the
big Central Valley of the State of Cali
fornia, although his influence has been
felt in every city and township in the
State. Now just listen to what he did
last year in his Central California en-
pire:
He raised 2S0 times as much wheat
as New England twelve times as much
barley and one-half as much corn.
He raised sixty times as much fruit,
with at least double the market rating,
He owns four times as many sheep,
and more cattle and swine.
He deposited $110 in the savings bank
for each member of his family and for
each employe on his farm.
He raised $4,000 tons of raisins and
harvested from vineyard larger than
all his New England cousins cornfield.
In point of population he is only one
eighth as large, but he lives in the
great Central Valley of California and
owns nearly one-half as much land.
He goes at things in big way, and
almost everything he has is big. He
has the biggest trees in his woods, the
largest fruit trees in his orange or
chard. He owns vineyard that COW
ers 10000 acres, and even his onion
patch is more than four miles square.
In Death Valley he has the depeest
valley in the United States, and in Mt.
Whitney the highest mountain peak.
He is great fisherman and owns one
fourteenth of all the fishing In the
Union, while in San Francisco Harbol
he has the largest inland harbor in the
world.
His Western neighbors all call him
California Yankee" and Ae deserves
the title for he is as versatile as whei
he left the New England Coast fifty
odd years ago
He cuts his grain with a great com
bined harvester that is really the larg
est automobile in the world, since II
moves by steam, but this big automobile
is also fast and effective worker, FOL
as it advances over a field of standing
grain, cutting a swath thirty-two feet
wide, it leaves the sacks of grain in its
wake all thrcshed and sacked.
This California Yankee is married
man, and he usually has four children
3S2).
He owns his own farm, which j!
not mortgaged, and his account in thu
savings bank has increased for th'
past eleven years.
He lives out of doors a great deal o
the time, and for this reason he Il
twenty-seven pounds heavier than hi
Yankee cousin.
His wife loves flowers, and she hal
one little bed of violets, thirty acres II
ALL from which she makes perfume
She also has 5000 acres of sweet peas
and a bed of wild poppies GOVERNS
many square miles. AS to her tabl,
she is very particular, having 250t
acres in her largest asparagus bed.
Her husband sometimes takes tC
mining, and the queerest phase il
which he INDUCES Is In dredging tn,
bottoms of streams. He has thirty
four dredgers, in which he has invested
S1,000,000, at work. These dredger;
bring up gold and mud from twenty
five feet below the surface of water
and fifteen feet beneath the bottom
of the river bed. Our California Yam
kee is the only man in the world wh'
takes try at this sort of mining, bu
then it netted him $3,000000 last year
and he believes he will be S5,000,00
: the better at the close OF the presen
year.
The country in which he lives Is 40'
miles long. and he is quite differen
from other Californians or Westerners
His voice sometimes has the real New
England twang, and he often wears
black slouch hat.
Strange that for a Yankee he i
something OF river man. and in 1856
he taught Mark Twain how to pilo
a flatboat up the Sacramento River
The year before that he started in tn
newspaper business. and he saw Mari
Twain and Bret Harte co-workers Of
E the Weekly California. 1t was no
much of paper. Mark Twain say
it was weakly paper" but Twail
and Bret Harte worked very hard a
$12 and $50 week.
II you have read any one of tn
above paragraphs you will realize tina
this California Yankee lives in q won
derful country-a land of extreme fci